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Sandra Dick

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Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling
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Covers:  Scottish news, human interest, features, family life, parenting, health, social media, society, entertainment.
Doesn't Cover: Happy to look at all ideas/pitches.
Freelance journalist and writer. Regular contributor to @heraldscotland. Send stories, DMs open. authory.com/SandraDick muckrack.com/sandradick
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Rock stars: the family who built Scotland's great lighthouses

Rock stars: the family who built Scotland's great lighthouses

The Herald (Scotland) — The Stevenson family tamed Scotland 's wild coastline with their lighthouse. A new online resource showcases their remarkable achievements, reports Sandra Dick. For those in peril on the seas or simply trying to find their way home, the reassuring glow from the lighthouses they built offered a welcome beacon of hope in the dark, stormy night.
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Scots village could become site of £200m gold mine

Scots village could become site of £200m gold mine

The Herald (Scotland) — It is a small village that clings to the banks of Loch Fyne, sheltered from the roar of the passing traffic on the A83 by a sprinkling of mature trees, and overlooked by peat-rich hills.
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Surge in help for children caught up in Chernobyl

Surge in help for children caught up in Chernobyl

The Herald (Scotland) — IT was a TVseries that brought to life the horrific events of more than 30 years ago. But the programme that charted the Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion in 1986 has led to an unexpected spin-off as a Scots charity that helps children affected by the disaster saw a huge increase in volunteers looking to help.
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Saving giant anteaters from becoming road kill with help of Scots zoologists

Saving giant anteaters from becoming road kill with help of Scots zoologists

The Herald (Scotland) — When a thundering truck pelting down one of Brazil's highways meets a sluggish giant anteater casually prowling for a termite supper, there's only going to be one winner. For countless giant anteaters, listed among the world's most vulnerable of creatures, the increasingly busy roads of the Cerrado, the unique savannah which stretches across a fifth of Brazil's landscape, become their final resting place.
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Reversing march of time with horology

Reversing march of time with horology

The Herald (Scotland) — They were once a feature of many high streets, little workshops usually occupied by a lone chap with a steady hand and an eyepiece, surrounded by tiny metal parts and the gentle tick-tock of a dozen clocks. The watchmaker's art faded with the arrival of quartz and battery-operated timepieces.
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Focus on the past: Glasgow's dark era revealed in haunting images

Focus on the past: Glasgow's dark era revealed in haunting images

The Herald (Scotland) — Ghostly figures in rags sit barefoot and huddled on the cold cobbles, overshadowed by grim towering tenements and the stern looks of men who could have strolled straight from the set of Peaky Blinders. Laundry flutters on lines strung across dank alleys that would rarely, if ever, capture the sun.
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Race against time to keep the humble Scots tattie on the menu

Race against time to keep the humble Scots tattie on the menu

The Herald (Scotland) — BOILED, baked, chipped, roast or mashed, a meal is rarely quite complete without a serving of the nation's favourite starch on the side. Scots have tucked into potatoes ever since the first spuds arrived from South America in the late 16th century, while Scottish growers today supply about 35 per cent of the UK's supplies.
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Alternative timeline of Glasgow's past

Alternative timeline of Glasgow's past

The Herald (Scotland) — Protest, culture and examples of Glasgow 's colourful character appear on a new 'alternative' timeline of the city's history. A new exhibition is looking back at the momentous - and not so momentous - events in the city's past. Sandra Dick reports A chance meeting in an all-night café, a community sit-in and the defiant spectacle of the first Glasgay!
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Seed money: Cash on offer for ideas to help more trees sprout

Seed money: Cash on offer for ideas to help more trees sprout

The Herald (Scotland) — Scotland needs more trees. Could robots provide the solution? asks Sandra Dick. One is the epitome of modern technology, conceived in spotless labs and programmed by computers to carry out tasks too tricky or time-consuming for mere mortals.
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How Victoria Falls tribute will bring fish back to river

How Victoria Falls tribute will bring fish back to river

The Herald (Scotland) — Of all the incredible sights he witnessed as he battled north along the banks of the Zambezi, the "thundering smoke" of the widest waterfall in the world would be the one that left explorer and missionary Dr David Livingstone breathless with awe. "Scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight," he later wrote.
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The globe-trotting piper: From Bhutan to the Vatican

The globe-trotting piper: From Bhutan to the Vatican

The Herald (Scotland) — The setting was remote and impressive, and the opportunity to play his bagpipes in front of a Bhutan princess was too good for Ross Jennings to miss. The globe-trotting piper was well on his way to reaching his goal of playing his bagpipes in every country of the world.
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Library brings 1980s back into spotlight

Library brings 1980s back into spotlight

The Herald (Scotland) — For those who lived it, with big hair, shoulder pads, garish shell suits and the threat of being obliterated by a nuclear - or IRA - bomb, the 1980s may well be the decade they would rather forget.
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How a group of Falkirk mill workers became the BA cowboys

How a group of Falkirk mill workers became the BA cowboys

The Herald (Scotland) — They were raised on Saturday morning cinema classics featuring John Wayne and bar-room brawls, high noon shoot-outs and riding into the sunset with the girl. But while most of their pals grew out of dreaming of conquering the Wild West, a group of British Aluminium mill workers from Falkirk was determined to keep the spirit of the classic country and western movie alive.
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Incredible tale of how an elephant was once kept in an Edinburgh flat

Incredible tale of how an elephant was once kept in an Edinburgh flat

The Herald (Scotland) — An incredible tale of how an elephant was once kept in an Edinburgh house has emerged in city archives, reports Sandra Dick. Rowdy behaviour has become a major bugbear for Edinburgh residents fed up with tourists taking up temporary residence in neighbouring flats.
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Campaigners hope to bring 19th century windjammer back to Scotland from Honolulu

Campaigners hope to bring 19th century windjammer back to Scotland from Honolulu

The Herald (Scotland) — Time is running out for a historic Clyde-built windjammer trapped in Honolulu Harbour. The Falls of Clyde was built in Port Glasgow in 1878 but is now languishing abroad and being stripped of supplies with fears she is facing dismantlement. Sandra Dick reports.
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Scottish brothers take on Atlantic Ocean in 26-ft boat

Scottish brothers take on Atlantic Ocean in 26-ft boat

The Herald (Scotland) — Every Easter and every summer the young Maclean brothers would burn off energy in the remote Wester Ross hamlet of Nedd, leaping into the chilly water of the loch, disappearing on wild adventures and looking for ways to scare their parents.
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Going out with a bang - how people are choosing for their ashes to be sent up in fireworks and ae...

Going out with a bang - how people are choosing for their ashes to be sent up in fireworks and ae...

The Herald (Scotland) — A discreet spot has been created to enable Sikh families to scatter loved one's ashes into the River Clyde. But some, finds Sandra Dick, are opting for more flamboyant ways to say goodbye. Captain Jim McTaggart cranked his little biplane into another impressive manoeuvre and gave a hearty wave to his passenger's grieving friends below.
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Scot's extraordinary invention helped make aviation history

Scot's extraordinary invention helped make aviation history

The Herald (Scotland) — The challenge was breathtaking in the extreme, two men in a flying machine aiming to earn a special place in aviation history by being first to cross the Atlantic non-stop and pick up a prize worth £1 million today for doing so.
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Apprentice recruitment bid to keep boat building knowledge alive

Apprentice recruitment bid to keep boat building knowledge alive

The Herald (Scotland) — They once ruled the waves as the skills of Scottish boat builders sent generations on to the water, helped bring home herring, mussels and oysters, and bobbed between islands, on lochs and down rivers to trade and just for fun.
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'Menopause led to my mother's breakdown'

'Menopause led to my mother's breakdown'

The Herald (Scotland) — When comedian Jojo Sutherland was around 11 years old, something very strange happened to her mother. "I joke about it on stage now," she says. "I say 'what if the menopause is genetic and you go through it the same way as your mum did? Because my mum had a nervous breakdown."
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Antonine Wall gets makeover to put it on the tourist trail | The Times

Antonine Wall gets makeover to put it on the tourist trail | The Times

The Times — For centuries it has maintained a peaceful presence as a Roman relic so moulded into Scotland's landscape that it has become almost invisible, but plans are now being developed to turn the Antonine Wall into the nation's newest tourist attraction. The wall stretches from Old Kirkpatrick to Bo'ness and was once a centre of Roman life, but today its forts and defences look like nothing more than a grassy mound and clumps of stone. Historic Scotland and councils along its 37-mile route are joining forces in the hope that it can become as big a magnet as castles and lochs
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PressReader.com - Connecting People Through News

PressReader.com - Connecting People Through News

pressreader.com — Connecting People through News. All-you-can-read digital newsstand with thousands of the world's most popular newspapers and magazines. Vast selection of top stories in full-content format available for free.
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We don't know how long our boys have left - we want to give them as many happy times as possible

We don't know how long our boys have left - we want to give them as many happy times as possible

sundaypost.com — The tree is decorated with twinkling lights, shiny baubles and lots of tinsel. There are presents to open and cards delivering 'season's greetings'. And no Christmas would be complete without Elf and Home Alone on television, Christmas cake, carols and a visit from all the family. It is, of course, the middle of June. But for step brothers Ben Stewart and Cameron McKenzie, who both have the same life-limiting muscle- wasting condition, yesterday was the best - and most unusual - Christmas Day ever. Parents Sheryl and Alan Stewart decided to transform their family home in West Lothian into a Christmas wonderland as a fantastic treat for their special boys.
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