Police record motorbike at 142mph in Highland speeding crackdown Police say the biker was among several people caught at speeds of 90mph and above in the Highlands.

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Please stop treating the Highlands like a race track. People live and work here.
#Scotland #HighlandsAndIslands #NotAPlaypark

Rhoda Meek: Toffs in tweed flock to the Highlands, but what benefits do they bring? ‘MY husband was a page boy at the Coronation”, intoned one second homer as I desperately tried to work out how to arrange my face.

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#HighlandsAndIslands #NotAPlaypark

Rhoda Meek: Tourism must be managed better or it will go the way of the herring There is nothing new under the sun – or when it comes to Scottish tourism, nothing new under the umbrella, so to speak.

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#Scotland #Overtourism #NotAPlaypark

Anger as ancient Scottish Caledonian pine forest 'cut down by dirty campers' A WARNING has been issued after “mindless vandalism” on public land across Scotland saw rubbish dumped and ancient forest cut down ...

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Time to reform the Scottish outdoor access code, impose heavy fines on dirty campers, fund an extensive ranger service. Protect our unique environments.
#Scotland #ScottishOutdoorAccessCode #NotAPlaypark #BanDirtyCamping

NatureScot could intervene to cull Highland estate's red deer NatureScot says a Highland estate could be targeted with Scotland's first deer control scheme.

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#Scotland #AbsenteeLandowners #Highlands #NotAPlaypark

Drone 'panicked' pregnant reindeer in Cairngorms, near Aviemore Some of the animals in the UK's only free-roaming reindeer herd are heavily pregnant.

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#Cairngorms#Reindeer #Drones #NotAPlaypark

Why there are protests over a £6.8m estate sale on Skye Skye's South Sleat Estate involves 20,000 acres of land.

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If there have been ongoing financial difficulties why didn't the trust engage with the local community earlier? Typical absentee landlord behaviour. People live and work in these places.
#CommunityLandOwnership #HighlandsAndIslands #Skye #NotAPlaypark