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Tales: Shetland’s farming women

Writer Serena Coady spent one week hiking solo in Shetland, meeting women farmers and discovering that in communities this close no-one knocks

Tales from a Slow Way: Slow Waves – stories from the southeast of Scotland’s surf community

Surfing in southeast Scotland is about as far from the barrelling waves of Hawaii or sun-kissed California as you can get; nonetheless, there’s an ever-growing community of committed (and often cold) surfers between Dunbar...

Transport troubles, limited freedom to roam and knowing where to go: the many barriers to accessing Great British walking

Ingrina was born in Los Angeles and sees Britain as a comparatively easy place to go walking. All is not well however; on a walk from Sevenoaks to Tonbridge, she reflects on the barriers that can prevent people from accessing walking in Britain.

Tales From A Slow Way: Lewes Community FC

Tracing the Lewalf path across the South Downs into Lewes, Fred Garrat-Stanley shines a light on the innovative, community-centred work being done at one of the world’s most progressive non-League football clubs, East Sussex-based Lewes FC

Dartmoor and you: land access rights around the UK

The right to wild camp has been lost on Dartmoor, or rather, the High Court has decreed, we never had it in the first place. Previously known as the only part of England where wild camping was allowed, on 13th January it was decreed that the 1985 Dartmoor Commons act only allowed users to pass through, not stay overnight in, Devon's largest National Park.

Cuairt ann am Beàrnaraigh

Scottish Gaelic: Coisiche aon-neach, neach-togail dhealbhan agus sealbhadair na bùtha thiodhlacan, Coralbox, a choisinn mòran dhuaisean, tha Eilidh Carr a’ mìneachadh dhuinn a cuairt mu thimcheall Bheàrnaraigh, eilean a h-àraich ann an Innse Gall

A wander around Berneray

Solo walker, photographer and owner of award-winning gift shop Coralbox, Eilidh Carr shares her wandering around Berneray, her home island in the Outer Hebrides

Stitches in the water

An unsettling walk along the fastest-eroding coastline in Europe, marking the anniversary of the Great North Flood – our biggest peacetime loss of life