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Faskally Wood is located on the north shore of Loch Faskally about I mile (1.6km) north-west of Pitlochry, Perthshire (Scottish Gaelic Baile Chloichridh, Siorrachd Pheairt) in central Scotland. An annual event takes place at Faskally that has grown over the years into an important part of Scotland's autumnal calendar known as the "The Enchanted Forest".  It is an internationally acclaimed and multi-award winning sound and light event, lasting four weeks that attracts over 800,000 visitors to the area every year. 

A birthday celebration, complete with piper and cake, took place at Glenelg (Scottish Gaelic: Glinn Eilg) in the Localsh area of Highland in western Scotland on Saturday.  It was the 50th birthday of Skye's historic car ferry MV Glenachulish, named after Glenachulish (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann a' Chaolais) a glen in the Scottish highlands. The ferry was built at Ailsa Shipbuilding Company in Troon (Scottish Gaelic: An Truthail / An t-Sròn) in 1969.

There is growing concerns and awareness about climate change. Over the recent months, ‘Youth Climate Strikes’ and a number of significant protests have been organised about the threat of environmental disaster. They have taken place across the World and Ireland is no exception. In the last Irish local and European elections there was a surge in support for the Green Party, helped along by a sections of a not unsympathetic media.  Many voters viewed the Greens as a party likely to achieve something about the climate change crisis and gained a noticeable amount of support from young people.

Black Isle (Scottish Gaelic: an t-Eilean Dubh) is a peninsula within Ross and Cromarty (Ros agus Cromba), in the Scottish Highlands. Tarradale near Muir of Ord on the Black Isle is also now thought to be the location of one of the largest Pictish cemeteries in Scotland. The Picts were a Celtic society of farmers and hunters who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the late Iron Age and early Medieval periods. 

The island of Jersey newspaper Bailiwick Express recently reported on concerns about the French nuclear plant at Flamanville in north-western France. Jersey is one of the Channel Islands, an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. The newspaper article pointed out that:

"A nuclear plant around 30 miles from Jersey's coast has been put under surveillance after a number of faults were discovered at the facility.

“A group known as the Hooded Men have won the latest stage of a legal battle to force an investigation into alleged torture by the security forces in 1971.

The Court of Appeal in Belfast dismissed an appeal by police against a ruling that detectives should revisit a decision to end their inquiry.
Fourteen men claimed they were subjected to torture after being held without trial in Northern Ireland.

The dismissal of the police appeal was a majority decision by the judges.

News from the Celtic League:

The BBC highlights a crash by a Belgian military jet in Brittany (near Lorient). The incident was sensational in that one of the aircrew who ejected was trapped on high voltage wires. He has since been rescued safely.

CONCERN SPREADS THAT NEW £4 MILLION FOOTBRIDGE AT TINTAGEL CASTLE HAS MADE ATTRACTION TOO POPULAR - AND COULD DESTROY SITE!

Independent Cornwall Councillor Bert Biscoe "shocked by the scale of the crowds"

Possibility of 'cover up' in planning application made of Cornwall Council

Kernow Matters To Us (KMTU), members of which administer the 'The Cornish are a Nation' Facebook page and several others, has always expressed its concerns regarding the 'developments' at Tintagel Castle.

The idea of a bridge between Scotland and the north-east of Ireland has been the subject of a considerable amount of media interest recently. The present British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, along with the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster, have been keen to promote the idea. Not least because it is seen as a means of strengthening the union between Britain and the last remnant of the British colony in Ireland.