Past Times journalist for DC Thomson Group. Loving digging up the past after many years in news and current affairs.
Hoots Mon: Elgin band leader Harry Robinson created smash-hit with Lord Rockingham’s XI
January 25, 2022
Jack Stitt was a Gordon Highlander who refused to let the Death Railway defeat him
January 25, 2022
Were you there when Meat Loaf played in Aberdeen in the 1980s and 1990s?
January 21, 2022
Tilleys, Rayburns and dipping ink: Memories of a 1950s childhood in Sutherland
January 20, 2022
Charles Alexander of Aberdeen: Legendary truck yard forged a place in workers’ hearts
January 14, 2022
10 years since Skyfall: Celebrating James Bond’s Highland heritage
January 12, 2022
Vashti Bunyan: How singer went from a Hebridean hippy to cult folk star
January 11, 2022
Forfar poisoning: A tale of forbidden lovers, murder and a drunk jury
January 11, 2022
Were missing Highlanders victims of callous murderers Burke and Hare?
January 5, 2022
New Year’s Day TV or a nap? It’s hard to tell the difference
January 1, 2022
Red Hot Highland Fling: The rise of Inverness as a Hogmanay hoolie capital
December 30, 2021
Andy Stewart: How the Red Lichtie was the king of Hogmanay TV
December 30, 2021
Harry Potter reunion: How the Highlands shaped iconic moments in the Potter movies
December 29, 2021
When more than 900 jobs were lost in Invergordon smelter’s crushing Christmas closure
December 23, 2021
Half a century of Christmas TV – is it better or worse now?
December 22, 2021
JK Rowling: Why boy wizard Harry Potter and Arbroath will forever be linked
December 17, 2021
Inverness murder trial: Dying woman crawled from gory scene after husband slit her throat
December 16, 2021
Meet the Bridge of Don veteran, 98, who saved his crew on a night raid over Germany
December 14, 2021
What will survive of us is love: Couple torn apart in life reunited forever in death
December 7, 2021
Beetle-wing dress: How humble Skye girl Barbara Morrison flew high with stunning gown
December 6, 2021
A muscular phenomenon: How Lochaber heavyweight AA Cameron conquered the world
December 2, 2021
Sophisticated, artistic, well-travelled – what the Culduthel dig tells us about pre-historic Highlanders
November 25, 2021
How Oliver Cromwell’s Citadel has proven no match for a 21st Century digger
November 20, 2021
Memories of iconic Tain Picture House as curtain set to rise on new era
November 18, 2021