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From showstopping cakes to cute Santa biscuits, these easy recipes from Coinneach MacLeod, aka The Hebridean Baker, are a celebration of seasonal flavours

Ken, Central Scotland A MATT SAYS These situations seem to be more frequent across the country these days. Happily, many of the willows and dogwoods with colourful winter stems cope well with intermit

As a teenager, Tracey Bateman would look forward to babysitting the young children of her parents’ friends, because she absolutely loved their house. ‘It had this big hall with a sweeping staircase, h

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Early autumn and early spring are good times to start improving the ground. If your allotment has been recently cultivated, then wait until spring, when the earth is beginning to warm up and the textu

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