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Focus On Glasgow – Mural Trail

Glasgow’s City Centre Mural Trail is a collection of 29 stunning pieces of art painted on the sides of tenements, offices and businesses. Here we take a look at five of the very best.

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Focus On North West – Shellfish Safaris

Search for the wildlife of the deep with a boat trip on the Zephyr. Just off the southern shore of Loch Gairloch in Wester Ross is a little island known as Dry Island, and it is a holiday-maker’s utopia.

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Follow Up Focus – Perthshire

This month’s Focus On is Perthshire, so let’s take a look at the impressive Balhousie Castle which also doubles as a cafe, shop and museum.

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Focus On Inner Hebrides – A Sweet Spot For Bees

Colonsay is the ideal location for bee conservation and offers honey that is bursting with the very essence of the Hebrides...

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Follow Up Focus Orkney

Scratch the surface on any of the Orkney isles and you could fulfil any archaeologist’s dream, someone once said. Here are our top historical sites there.

Abbotsford House is easily accessible from the new station at Tweedbank.

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Focus On The Borders – Sir Walter Scott’s House

Explore the borders in this month's Focus section of The Scots Magazine. Here's an added review of Abbotsford House, the home of Walter Scott.

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Focus On The Borders – Robert Smail’s Printing Works

This month we focus on the Borders. Become a printer for a day at the fascinating and historic site Robert Smail’s Printing Works.

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A Royal Resting Place – Dunfermline Abbey

This magnificent building is an attraction on two counts. Firstly, for its superb architecture and secondly as the resting place of some of Scotland’s greatest kings and queens.

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Follow Up Focus – Verdant Works

Dundee is famous for its heritage of jam, jute and journalism and there is no better place to take in a slice of that history than at Verdant Works...