Topline Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced her resignation Wednesday, leaving an unclear path for a new referendum for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom after her government...
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Concerns over golden eagles partly prompt the redesign of wind farm
A golden eagle photographed in Scotland. The bird of prey is protected under the U.K.’s Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Education Images | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Plans for an o...
6 Scotch Whiskies For Your Burns Night Celebration This January 25
Scots across the world annually celebrate on January 25th the life of Robert Burns, the country’s … [+] most famous bard, with recitations of his poetry, the eating of haggis and imbibing ...
How Celtic And Scotland Can Help Asian Players Reach The Premier League
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – MAY 14: Kyogo Furuhashi of Celtic celebrates after scoring their side’s first … [+] goal during the Cinch Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Motherwell...
Springfield Properties Shares Sink 14% As It Warns Of Falling Profits! Time To Invest?
Image: Getty getty Springfield Properties’ share price has tanked in 2022 as worries over the housing market have intensified. It fell 14% on Monday alone following a chilly reception to fresh trading...
Rolls-Royce uses green hydrogen in jet engine test
LONDON — Plans to reduce the significant environmental effects of aviation took a step forward this week after Rolls-Royce and easyJet said they had carried out the ground test of a jet engine that us...
Original Lioness Believes Current European Champions Have Made Pioneer Players ‘Less Invisible’
The England women’s national football team and their manager, Eric Worthington, line-up for a team … [+] portrait at Wembley Stadium in London, England, 15th November 1972. (Photo by Ronal...
The ‘world’s largest floating wind farm’ produces its first power
Offices of Equinor photographed in Feb. 2019. Equinor is one of several companies looking at developing floating wind farms. Odin Jaeger | Bloomberg | Getty Images A facility described as the world...
Wave energy device put through its paces during trials in Scotland
The Waveswing wave energy converter photographed in Scapa Flow, Orkney. EMEC Sea-based trials of a wave energy converter weighing 50 metric tons have produced “highly encouraging results,”...
‘I Am On The Edge Of A Really Great Moment In My Career’
Sam Heughan on the cover of his new memoir “Waypoints: My Scottish Journey” Voracious, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company He has already won over the hearts of countless fans with his...
New project will test the viability of large-scale wave energy
This image shows waters off the coast of Orkney, an archipelago north of the Scottish mainland that’s home to the European Marine Energy Centre. Capchure | Moment | Getty Images A 19.6 million e...
Scotland’s Leader Sturgeon She Still Wants Independence From The UK
First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon speaks to students during an event at Stanford University … [+] in Stanford, California on April 04, 2017. – Sturgeon discussed the international...
Waterford Whisky Is Returning Irish Whisky To Its Roots.
The first three Waterford Irish Single Malt Whisky Single Farm Series to be released in America. … [+] Dunbell edition 1.1, Rathclogh Edition 1.1, and Dunmore edition 1.1. L-R. Waterford Whisky ...
Caledonian Sleeper Train Service Between London And Scotland Could Be Nationalized After Funding Row
A Caledonian Sleeper train at Edinburgh Waverley Station. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty … [+] Images) PA Images via Getty Images The London-listed firm Serco’s $900m contract to run ...
Scottish Equality Goals Undermined As Top College Favors Children Of The Well-Heeled
A general view of St Andrews University and quadrangle, Fife, Scotland August 1984. St Andrews is … [+] Scotland’s first university and the third oldest in the English speaking world. (Pho...
U.K. ‘Mini Budget’ Likely Just Dealt Scotland A Fiscal Time Bomb
The flags of Britain, Scotland and European Union wave outside the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh, … [+] Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. Britain officially leaves the European Union on Friday after a d...
Is This The World’s Rarest Scotch Whisky?
A bottle of the new 45-Year-Old Release From Littlemill Photo Illustration By: Brad Japhe Define rarity. Seems simple enough. But when we’re talking about whisky—especially single malt scotch—it’s a p...
English Trains Struggle To Carry Three Bicycles—This Scottish One Carries Twenty
Inside the Highland Explorer. Carlton Reid Folding bikes fit on any train, and two or perhaps three lightweight road bikes can be squeezed into the tight bicycle-hanging spaces on the newest trains pl...
Vintage Tiger Woods Is Gone Forever After British Open, But What About Tiger Woods, Period?
ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND – JULY 15: Tiger Woods of the United States acknowledges the crowd on the 18th … [+] green during Day Two of The 150th Open at St Andrews Old Course on July 15, 2022 i...
Hidden Van Gogh Self-Portrait Discovered Behind Another Painting
Topline A previously unknown self-portrait of celebrated Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh has been discovered hiding in plain sight on the back of another painting, the National Galleries of Scotland ann...
The UK’s largest Bitcoin conference comes to Scotland
The bear market won’t scuttle Bitcoin’s (BTC) adoption plans in the United Kingdom. From Oct. 21–22 this year, internationally recognized Bitcoin experts, authors and content creators will take part i...
The world’s most powerful tidal turbine just got a major funding boost
Orbital Marine Power’s O2 turbine at the Orkney Islands, north of the Scottish mainland, in September 2021. Scotland has become a hub for companies and projects focused on tidal power and marine...
Golf trips to top British courses are selling out this year and next
Travelers planning a golfing vacation to prestigious courses in the United Kingdom may need to act fast. Some of the U.K.’s top venues are selling out, not just this year, but for spots — or tee...
Seaweed could be a vital ingredient in the fight against climate change
Like many coastal communities around the world, people living by the sea in the United Kingdom have harvested and consumed seaweed for centuries. In Wales, Welsh laverbread — made from cooking a type ...
FastBlade tidal turbine testing site opens in Scotland
An image of the £4.6 million FastBlade facility. Scotland has a long association with North Sea oil and gas production, but in recent years it’s also become a hub for companies and projects focu...
Siemens Gamesa in $629 million sale of south European assets to SSE
Details of the agreement between SSE and SGRE were announced on the same day the latter released preliminary results for the second quarter, reporting revenue of around 2.2 billion euros and an operat...
Huge undersea cables to give UK, Germany first ever energy link
Onshore wind turbines in Germany. The NeuConnect project says the interconnector will enable Britain to “tap into the vast energy infrastructure in Germany, including its significant renewable e...
UK Covid cases are back on the rise as travel restrictions dropped
Shoppers walking along Oxford Street in London on Dec. 21, 2021. Tolga Akmen | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Cases of Covid-19 are rising once again in the U.K., according to the latest figures from the...
Is omicron subvariant BA.2 to blame for rising Covid cases?
A doctor monitors a Covid-19 patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit of the community hospital in Germany on April 28, 2021. RONNY HARTMANN | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Covid cases are rising in ...
Europe’s ocean energy installations surge back to pre-Covid levels
An overhead view of a tidal turbine from Orbital Marine Power on September 6, 2021. William Edwards | AFP | Getty Images European installations of tidal and wave energy capacity jumped in 2021, as the...
Flooded, disused coal mines could change how our homes are heated
LONDON — The ramifications of the Industrial Revolution, which had its roots in 18th-century Britain, were huge. Britain’s abundance of coal — as well as the ease with which it could be accessed...
Meet The Man Behind The Best Whisky Hotel In All Of Scotch Country
Piers Adam, proprietor of the Craigellachie Hotel in the Speyside of Scotland Daniel Lindegren If you’re a fan of fine scotch you ought to know Piers Adam. Although an Englishman by birth, his heart a...