Grounded and caged for 27 years, Methuselah has just regained something that every self-respecting golden eagle needs: her wings. picked by doggylives 9 months ago

This Russian guy must really, really like whisky! The anonymous bidder paid £29,400 (about $60,000) for a bottle of a Bowmore single malt whisky, bottled in 1850. picked by Turtle 1 year ago

Deacon Blue have announced that bass player Ged Grimes and guitarist Gregor Philp will join the band for their forthcoming UK shows including a series of summer dates and a tour with Simple Minds later in the year picked by caryp3 5 months ago

The spectral vision was captured by 14-year-old Connor Bond at an ancient castle in the Scottish highlands famed for its ghostly residents. Tulloch Castle dates back to the 1200s and has a long history of ghostly activity.

Pic is not from story. picked by teresag 6 months ago

I'm feeling very patriotic tonight so I though I would share a video I have found. It's a moving piece featuring the music of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Scotlands oldest military regiment. The music is played by the regiments world famous band and the piece is entitled The Gael, more commonly known as the theme from Last of the Mohicans. picked by davbob 10 months ago

A man who took a photograph of an ill woman outside an Edinburgh bar has been fined £100 after being branded "unchivalrous" by a sheriff. picked by MeMe 2 months ago

A 52-year-old software engineer has built a habitable house for just £4,000 - albeit with a lot of hard graft and a certain amount of scavenging. picked by topofall 8 months ago

Prolonged periods of rain have resulted in the River Esk being in flood. See video of River Esk in Langholm, Scotland. picked by lakeshost 4 months ago

"I have already chopped up a man - and I will do the same to you." picked by tigertony 7 months ago

The Archive of the Now is an online and print repository of recordings, printed texts and manuscripts, focussing on innovative contemporary poetry being written or performed in Britain. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland, and you can be part of it. picked by 2manyusernames 1 month ago

The Sunday Times has reported that Scotland Yard were contacted after the alleged blackmailers threatened to go public with a video they claimed shows the royal engaged in a sex act.

I do hope its kate middelton and not the queen picked by spocksmyhomeboy 1 year ago

A mythical and ghostly creature has appeared in the wilds of the Scottish Highlands. A rare white stag, from the red deer species, is believed to be among just a tiny handful living in Britain, according to a conservation group. White stags are seen as a magical and powerful force in many mythologies and the John Muir Trust is now keeping the stag's location secret for fear of poachers. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

It may be the longest hangover in the history of binge beer drinking. When a 37-year old man walked into a hospital emergency room in Glasgow, Scotland last October complaining of "wavy" vision and a non-stop headache that had lasted four weeks. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Scotland is considering lobbying the United States to lift a ban on haggis, hoping to boost sales of the sheep-stomach-based national dish. Mmmmmm...haggis. picked by osiris12 10 months ago

"Yoichi 20 Years Old", distilled on the shores of the Sea of Japan, has become the first variety produced outside Scotland to win the coveted Single Malt Award in an international competition run by Whisky Magazine, the main industry publication. picked by Mitzuzake 7 months ago

A grandmother who contracted a potentially fatal superbug in Scotland has been saved after a hospital fed her daughter's faeces to her. picked by maxriter 12 months ago

In 2006 a man in Scotland, and another in New York, inhaled anthrax spores from imported animal skins they were making into drums. The Scot died. picked by Bornbad 3 weeks ago

The storm that battered Scotland yesterday will set off a huge storm surge down the North Sea today. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Researchers at St. Andrews University, Scotland, claim to have found a way to simulate an event horizon of a black hole - not through a new cosmic observation technique, and not by a high powered supercomputer… but in the laboratory. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago