Perhaps the visitors who crush into Skye might turn left at Glasgow next time, towards this lost resort The Glenburn Hotel in Rothesay, on the island of Bute, has one of the finest views in Britain; ...
A TEENAGER denies raping and murdering Alesha MacPhail. Alesha, six, was abducted from her bed at knifepoint, smothered and shaken violently before being raped and murdered, court papers claim. Alesha ...
A rainbow over Rothesay and the Isle of Bute. It was an appropriate image for Herald photographer Jamie Simpson, accompanying columnist Kevin McKenna on a visit there in 2016 to report on a grassroots ...
Mounzer Darsani says he did not even know what the word island meant Bute, a small island off Scotland's west coast, has welcomed more than 100 Syrian refugees over the past decade. Fleeing civil war, ...
A COP chucked a black hoodie found on a beach into a skip — before it was retrieved by detectives probing the murder of Alesha MacPhail, the murder trial heard today. Local woman Zareya MacGillivray, ...
THE girlfriend of Alesha MacPhail’s dad has vowed to chain herself to the slain schoolgirl’s mem­orial bench in a desperate bid to stop islanders shifting it. Toni McLachlan, 19, hit out at reports ...
More than £3m of lottery cash is to be spent revamping a Scottish seaside town and the centre of Glasgow's east end. A grant of £1.5m will fund building regeneration projects in the centre of Rothesay ...
The Scottish town Rothesay on the Isle of Bute may not be a premier holiday destination but that won't bother its new, and unusual, arrivals - around 60 Syrian refugees. Peter Geoghegan went along to ...
The UK press claimed the refugees who settled on this island in the Firth of Clyde hated it, but novelist Sophie Cooke finds it full of great food, walks, beaches – and more than a few contented ...
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