Fishing holidays: Northern Scotland is angling heaven but it won’t matter if you don’t catch a thing

Day four and delirium has set in. I see fish in every shadowy corner of the River Findhorn — ghosts holding in the current. The water looks almost like the whisky made here in Scotland’s northeastern county of Moray, but it doesn’t have that dangerous glint. This is slick black tea, tannin-heavy and sickly. Closing … Read more

ANDREW PIERCE: Is Alex Salmond angling to sink rival Nicola Sturgeon? 

First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon vowed yesterday to make the case again for independence after the pandemic crisis eases, speaking on BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show. Always on the media, her personal approval ratings are high and support for Scottish independence at 54 per cent in the latest poll is at a four-year high. … Read more

ANDREW PIERCE: Is Alex Salmond angling to sink rival Nicola Sturgeon? 

First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon vowed yesterday to make the case again for independence after the pandemic crisis eases, speaking on BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show. Always on the media, her personal approval ratings are high and support for Scottish independence at 54 per cent in the latest poll is at a four-year high. … Read more