The Scottish and UK governments have no idea how much peat has been dug from the ground for commercial purposes and sold in garden centres, despite both administrations viewing the preservation of peatlands as a priority to combat the climate crisis.
Category: Picture Gallery
WHY NOT BUILD MORE HOUSES LIKE THIS?
Fiona Kyle thinks we should build more houses like this one at Talisman Avenue, Westcliff, instead of the “prison-like” flats in Dumbarton Town Centre. Do you agree?
BBC’S TAKE ON 2019 IN PICTURES: Images from around the UK
A selection of the best photographs taken by news photographers around the UK this year
IRISH TIMES PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE YEAR
I took this photograph in the TC Palya slum in Bangalore, in India, earlier this year. Rosita Boland, the Irish Times features writer, and I were investigating the origins of a multibillion-euro industry: the collection of human hair for resale as wigs and hair extensions in the salons of the West. These women had been out collecting hair from the brushes and combs of women in ordinary households. Picture by Brenda Fitzsimons.
STUNNING RAINBOW OVER LEVENGROVE PARK
Picture by Michael Moffat
A BLACK VELVET SKY STUDDED WITH STARS
I was lucky to spend a few wonderful days with friends in the Haut Languedoc. It’s a quieter corner of France. Stunning mountains with dramatic rock escarpments, beautiful medieval villages with rivers running through them, lush vineyards yielding robust reds and vibrant rosés and mystifyingly, a Scottish person round every corner who has made a home and a life here. I can see some similarity with Scotland, and certainly the appeal.