Glen Esk pensioner’s lifelong passion kindled by childhood summer with Spitfire heroes
Retired farmer Angus Davidson will be the first to tell you he has led a charmed life.
Retired farmer Angus Davidson will be the first to tell you he has led a charmed life.
An Angus sporting estate is at the centre of a major investigation into animal fighting.
Recumbent Hill of Cat rises lazily from Glen Esk but the ascent, via the historic Firmounth Road, is anything but restful. It is a long and arduous hike, sweat and toil eventually rewarded with panoramas over Angus, to the south, and Deeside and the mountains of the Cairngorms, to the north.
Mount Keen, Glen Esk, Angus
An operation to stamp out a rise in rural crime in Angus and Perthshire has led to a string of arrests.
Hill of Wirren occupies the high ground between Glen Lethnot and Glen Esk and is most commonly tackled from the former, either from the hamlet of Bridgend or from further up the single-track road that runs through the sparsely populated valley.
Regular readers know of my interest in our old language; words and expressions of another age and others which have fallen altogether out of everyday speech. And I regularly come across new ones.
Queen Victoria was a regular visitor to the Grampian mountains. During holidays at Balmoral in the second half of the 19th century, she frequently traversed the upland routes linking Deeside and Angus.