Emergency crews and estate staff tackled a five-mile-long wildfire in Assynt on Saturday. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was called to the blaze near Fionn Loch, southeast of Lochinver, at ...

Assynt Mountain Rescue has one of the largest areas to cover in Scotland A Highland mountain rescue team has urged walkers to take adequate precautions before they hit the hills, following an increase ...

40,000 acres of the Assynt estate has been put up for sale A community is considering a bid to buy 40,000 acres of land on the Assynt Estate which has been put up for sale. The current land for sale ...

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The Assynt Foundation has raised £2.9m to buy its local land A community group is to buy two Highland estates after securing the £2.9m price tag with hours to spare. The Glencanisp and Drumrunie ...

“There’s no better way to appreciate the beauty of Assynt than on foot,” according to Ken Keith, a hiking guide who lives in the namesake Scottish parish, situated in the Northern Highlands on the ...

Assynt is the first part of the UK to have all its fishing interactively computerised – north west Sutherland is at the forefront of digitalised angling, collaborative web mapping and, I would hazard ...

It's been 25 years since the Assynt Crofters captured the public's imagination with their audacious bid to shake up centuries of Highland history and buy the land where they worked and lived. Did you ...

A Scottish artist has drawn on his upbringing among some of the last native Gaelic speakers in Assynt for a series of new and surreal paintings. David Hutchison is based in Edinburgh, where his new ...

A GROUP of crofters say they are willing to go to jail in their fight against a Scottish government agency over the issue of a deer cull. Members of the Assynt Crofters' Trust are facing claims that ...

A Scottish artist has drawn on his upbringing among some of the last native Gaelic speakers in Assynt for a series of new and surreal paintings. David Hutchison is based in Edinburgh, where his new ...