The Stables, Cromarty, 15 – 16 April 2011.

Bob Pegg, Ross-shire based storyteller and musician, leads a walk through the streets of Cromarty, pausing to tell tales of witches and goblins, mermaids and shape-shifters – tales that pioneer geologist and folklorist Hugh Miller heard during his boyhood in the village two hundred years ago. There is no charge for the walk, which will take place on Easter Saturday, 23rd April 2011.

KATIE LAING reports on the latest phase of development for the Stornoway-based publisher.

Sir Thomas Urquhart 400th Anniversary Conference in Cromarty on 15-16 April 2011.

You are invited to join Bob Pegg, Joy Dunlop (Mod 2011 Gold Medallist) and Bill Taylor on 19th March 2011 at 2pm to participate in a drama at Carnassarie Castle, near Kilmartin, Argyll.

OUR HOUSES: THEIR STORIES is a biography of the 107 houses of Cairndow village at the head of Loch Fyne in Argyll which will be exhibited at Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, from 13 March to 2 April 2011.

A Musical Recital featuring John Rae’s fiddle, Stromness Museum, Orkney, 6 March 2011.

The continuing archaeological dig at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney, a stunning complex of 5000-year-old buildings, has been named research project of the year in a national awards scheme.

Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, 24-29 January 2011.

First Minister Alex Salmond and newly appointed Scottish Makar Liz Lochhead celebrated the official launch of the National Trust for Scotland’s £21m Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway, Ayrshire.