The wild life

Our walks this month Ian Battersby 1 ...

It’s the busiest time of year for Britain’s beautiful places. Yet as these locations prove, you can find silence, sensational scenery and space to breathe.

…it would be LIATHACH . Boisterous, delicately flavoured and fabulously moreish, this is the all-you-can-eat banquet you should sell a relative to attend. Here’s why.

Over the stippled swell of the Firth of Clyde soars a gannet. A pair of long, black-tipped wings catches the late-August light as the bird tilts on the breeze. It’s on fish patrol – curving low then r

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The 125K race starts in Inverie, a remote village on the Knoydart peninsula, accessible only by a boat or two-day hike. There is an extremely lively community-owned pub plus an impressively stocked co