Environment

Forres Area Community Trust and Forres Heritage Trust raised the funding for a new leaflet highlighting forthcoming events.

Author Ewen Watson and illustrator Sathya Schlösser are using Berry Burn funding for the project.

THE first turbine in the new Moray West wind farm has been installed.

AN episode of Planet Earth III, which pupils from Speyside High School provided a voiceover for, airs today.

HOW Moray’s coastal assets will be managed in the future took centre stage at a public consultation session in Findochty recently.

MORAY Council is inviting local coastal communities to input to the new process for adapting to changes to the coastline due to climate change.

Film being screened about Hopeman’s Steve Truluck

Cash from Scottish Government

HOUSEHOLDS in the north-east and across Scotland are recycling more than ever, new figures have revealed.

The Royal Highland & Agricultural Society of Scotland is calling for people to share their agricultural and rural stories for its 240th anniversary.

Proposals to modernise how Scotland’s cattle are tagged, identified and traced is the focus of a new consultation which launched this week

Members of the public are being urged to notify experts if they think they see a non-native hornet species.

The Bill sets out reforms which aim to change the pattern of land ownership in rural and island communities.

A yellow weather warning for snow in the north-east area has been issued by the Met Office.

Moray Flying Club has begun flying an electric plane putting it on track to be the first to offer carbon emission-free initial pilot training.

Details about the actions farmers in the north-east and Moray will have to take to receive agricultural support payments from 2025 have been unveiled.

Unsettled conditions are the main theme of the forecast through much of the week, with low pressure bringing periods of rain from the west.

Councillor Draeyk van der Horn is fighting to have 'cancer causing' weed killer completely phased out.

Owners of any birds other than parrots, finches, budgies and canaries will need to be registered even if they only have one animal at their location.

Wildlife will see increased protection with a range of measures to tackle raptor persecution and ensure management of species on grouse moors.