Rampant Scotland Directory! Most Scottish National daily newspapers now have Web site versions but an increasing number of the regional publications are also providing on-line news about their local areas for Scots abroad. There is a separate page for Scottish-related Magazines.
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Written as part of this site, the Newsletter brings you a weekly update on news and events around Scotland. There is also an e-mail version to which you can subscribe. This offering of the Scotsman daily newspaper carries articles from the printed version covering news, business, sport, magazine etc. There is even a full scale crossword. The Edinburgh Evening News covers arts, leisure, people, shopping, education heritage and eating/drinking and sport in the capital as well as national news. From the same stable, there is also Scotland on Sunday.
The (Glasgow) Herald now likes to be known as just the "Herald" to signify it covers the whole of Scotland. This electronic version provides a daily update on news, Sports Coverage and business plus a selection of feature articles. The Herald's sister paper the Evening Times also has an online version. Sunday Herald is from the same stable as the daily newspaper. However, the Web pages of the Sunday Herald are intended to be an additional part of the paper, rather than just a Web version of the printed paper. Definitely part of Scottish Kulture. Not only regular news reports but also majors on Sports Results The "P&J" has the current local news and articles on farming, golf, Aberdeen FC and the Highland League as well as gardening and antiques. The sister paper, the Evening Express is also available. This local free newspaper has special editions for: There can be few Scots who have not read the publications printed by the Dundee-based company D C Thomson. From the "Dandy" and "Beano" comics to Sunday Post (where a recommendation for a remedy by the "Family Doc" can empty the shelves in the chemist shops by lunchtime on Monday) and the Weekly News (with its true life stories) their output has become part of the fabric of Scotland. The on-line versions include many of the long-time favourites - "The Doc" is there and the Weekly News has another form of quick acting tonic in the form of cartoons. Other Thomson publications on the WWW are the Dundee Evening Telegraph (news, features, recipes, sport) and Dundee Courier with weekly on-line extracts from the paper version, local property for sale, sport. Web version of the largest Scottish newspaper outside of Scotland itself, and now in its 22nd year of communicating with expatriate Scots and Scots descendants. Highland News Group's are Web versions of the printed Highland News, North Star and Lochaber News. Andy Bairden (formerly from Glasgow) writes a weekly column about various aspects of Scotland in the British Weekly which serves the Los Angeles and Orange County British community - although they have subscribers in every state in America and elsewhere. Local Ballater & Crathie Community Magazine which you can download in PDF format. Local news and views from the Buckie area in North-East Scotland. A comprehensive coverage of news and articles about Forres, linked to a site covering tourism, local events, accommodation and shopping on the area. A newspaper which provides a voice for the Celtic community in Vancouver, British Columbia with news, music, arts, mythology, folklore, sports and community topics. The printed version of the Dunoon Observor and Argyllshire Standard (to give the paper its full title) has been published every week for over 125 years The on-line version not only provides local news but also a history of the newspaper. Local news stories, sport, farming, memory lane. News items relating to specific locations in the county have been abstracted from this paper and also from the Campbeltown Courier and Oban Times to provide easy access.
Local news stories, sport, farming, memory lane. News items relating to specific locations in the county have been abstracted from this paper and also from the Argyllshire Advertiser and Oban Times to provide easy access. Local news stories, sport, farming, memory lane, flashback photos. News items relating to specific locations in the county have been abstracted from this paper and also from the Argyllshire Advertiser and Campbeltown Courier to provide easy access. Local news and events from the bustling town on the Clyde estuary. Brief extracts from local stories published in the printed version. A Web site dealing with news about Livingston, Bathgate, Armadale, Broxburn, Linlithgow and Whitburn and the businesses operating in the area. Linlithgow News provides a similar service, focused on the historic town. The Northern Scot is an on-line newspaper for Scots both home and abroad providing both current and archived items. Internet edition of Deeside's weekly newspaper. Part of the Oban Times, providing a daily update of dep sea fishing, aquaculture and fish processing news. An on-line version - "the first fishing paper in the UK on the Net" -of the printed Shetland Fishing News, there is a wealth of information on catching, processing and farming fish plus up to date news and shipping weather forecasts. As the SFN has been around for a long time , they have also included features on fishing history and pictures from the past. Keeps people round the world up to date with events in the Western Isles, with an on-line version of the local weekly newspaper. If it's going on in East Lothian you'll find it in the Courier - the County's leading weekly newspaper reporting on events and issues at the core of community life. The only newspaper printed and published in East Lothian. The local newspaper for the central Borders, based in Galashiels and covering the other principal towns. Reporting on events and issues at the core of community life. The local newspaper covers a wide range of sports, news, views and reviews - from local politics to festivals - in the Tweeddale area of the Scottish Borders. Galloway Gazette and Stranraer News, the Voice of South West of Scotland since 1870 covering the whole of Galloway from Stranraer to Castle Douglas and everything in between. This is an umbrella organisation responsible for publishing a wide range of local newspapers. The web versions of these papers allow people around the world to keep in touch with local news and sport and special features. And if you have only just come across a local paper of interest, don't overlook the archive section. The papers available are: This is the Scottish section of a newspaper group publishing local papers around Britain. The online papers in the group in Scotland are: |
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