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Inverness kids follow their food from farm to plate

Published: Fri 15 Mar 2013

Pupils from Muirtown Primary on a day out to discover where their food comes from

MUIRTOWN Primary School has spent a day out and about in the Highlands learning about where their food comes from and how it gets from the fields to the plate to mark International School Meal's Day on March 8.

Helping Huskies come in from the cold

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Published: Thu 28 Feb 2013

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ONCE upon a time, the heart-warming story of pack of Siberian Huskies and their bond with a man trying to trace his family past in Alaska was the plot of a classic Disney film, Snow Dogs.

Highland Wildlife

Re-thinking land use is important

The numbers of Corncrake or Crex Crex have risen in recent years.

THE media pays full attention to the high profile re-introductions such as red kites and sea eagles and rightly so. Other species that have spread back naturally, although re-introduced to some areas, have also had a lot a publicity such as the osprey. What these conservations measures all have in common is the sheer expense, not only of the re-introduction but also the monitoring of all these species.

Tried and tested

Going veggie in wake of horse meat scandal

Jenna Conti goes cold turkey on meat for a week. Picture: Callum Mackay. Image No. 021586

The recent horse meat scandal has rocked consumer confidence across the country, leaving big questions about where meat comes from and what exactly is in the meat we buy from supermarkets.

Staycations

Travel

Photos

Spectacular sunsets over the Highlands

BEAUTIFUL sunsets around the Highlands over the past few weeks have has our readers out taking some spectacular pictures. Here is a selection.

Spectacular sunsets over the Highlands

Readers pictures of the Week

LAST week's colourful Scots Guards prade in Inverness and two wildlife shots are our pictures of the week snapped by readers.

Readers pictures of the Week

North Focus - Glencoe landscape

THIS scenic landscape of the hills towering over Glencoe is one of our pictures of the week along with a fast-flowing waterfall and a Ross-shire landmark.

North Focus - Glencoe landscape

North Focus - pictures of the week

SNAPS of a sunny Highland scene, a gentle sunset, a wildlife close-up are this week's top readers' pictures NorthFocus is your chance to have one of your top shots published. Keeping sending in your pictures.

North Focus - pictures of the week

Pictures of the Week

NORTH Focus is your chance to have one of your top shots published. Keeping sending in your pictures. They don't have to be just landscape and wildlife shots. Also send us your favourite people pictures.

Pictures of the Week

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