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.
Glen Esk
Angus sporting estate raided and employee suspended in major probe into animal fighting
An Angus sporting estate is at the centre of a major investigation into animal fighting.
Feline the love for this hill
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.
Eager to bag this Munro
Mount Keen, Glen Esk, Angus
String of arrests as police launch operation to blitz rural crime spree
An operation to stamp out a rise in rural crime in Angus and Perthshire has led to a string of arrests.
Shooting for the summit
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.
Whummle the bannock? Why I’m head over heels in love with these old Scots words
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.
A route by Royal appointment
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.