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Asian or yellow-legged hornets (Vespa velutina) can deliver a very painful sting widely described as being “jabbed with a red-hot needle”. However, as with our native European hornet (Vespa crabro), t

Seeking answers to your science questions? Ask our resident expert, Peter Gallivan

MY Anne is an economical sort. She doesn’t believe in wasting time or petrol running in and out of St Andrews or Anstruther for a pickle of things. Bread comes under this title. We usually eat one lar

When it comes to food shopping, we all want to try to make a positive difference and do our bit for sustainability–but how exactly should we go about it, asks Jane Wheatley

A cold-water nomad with a voracious appetite, the overfished cod may be dwindling in numbers, but it is still a big beast of the sea

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