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Stirlingshire village is testbed for new renewables funding model that could deliver benefits to communities across Scotland

Organisers of Scotland’s biggest festival of Brazilian culture are promising an explosion of colour and sound with its best ever line up of samba dancers and musicians appearing this year.

Scotland’s most effective design agency has been tasked with helping to modernise the way in which the poppy, symbol of remembrance for almost a century, is viewed by the public.

A Scottish estate has come to the rescue of Edinburgh Zoo over the problem of how to feed two prized pandas due to arrive from China later this year.