The striking hilltop Fyrish Monument, in Alness, Easter Ross, dates back to the 18th century and is one of Scotland’s most ...
Campaigners say a planned new wind farm would spoil views from one of the Highlands' best-known landmarks. Fyrish Monument is a mock ruin called a folly on the summit of the hill Cnoc Fyrish, which ...
They want to know that the US will recoup what it gives, with interest. When the satirically gifted Hugh Hector Munro (“Saki”) warned that being a pioneer was never wise, seeing as the Early ...
They want to know that the US will recoup what it gives, with interest. When the satirically gifted Hugh Hector Munro ("Saki") warned that being a pioneer was never wise, seeing as the Early Christian ...
The monument was commissioned by a Highland landowner Sutherland-born landowner, Gen Sir Hector Munro of Novar, had the folly built and paid for it with prize money and pensions he earned serving ...
With the demolition of the former Greenock Central Library looming, this week's Talk of the Towns looks back at the opening of the building in 1970.
Also a consideration of the satirical short stories about Edwardian England published by Saki - the pen name of Scottish author Hector Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916). Rana is joined by the novelist ...