Andy Wightman

Gaick Estate, owned by Anders Holch Povlsen, forms part of the Danish billionaire’s growing landholding.

Scotland 'going backwards' on private land ownership, report warns

Contin Forest, near Strathpeffer, is home to acres of birch, pine and spruce woodland with amazing views over Strathconon. Take a break at Rogie Falls, where you can see leaping migrating salmon battle the cascading water.

Lego heiress expands massive Highland estate after £25m purchase

Scottish estate in the Cairngorms

Explainer What is changing on land reform and how rural Scotland has responded

Griffin Forestry Estate near Aberfeldy in Perthshire recently purchased by a subsidiary of Gresham House Ltd, a London-based asset management company now owned by a private equity firm headquartered in New York.

Scots bank under fire for investment in 'second largest landowner'

Alex Salmond speaks to the media in 2023

Claim Alex Salmond leaked harassment details 'defies comprehension'

Griffin Forestry Estate near Aberfeldy in Perthshire. PIC: Savills.

Scottish forest sold for £145m to investors in 'astronomical' sale

Scotland's Land Reform Bill is debated at the Royal Highland Show

'Rip it up and start again' - Highland show hosts land bill debate

Firefighters battle a wildfire. Picture: Getty Images

Rewilded estates are 'fundamentally unprepared' for wildfires

Fraser Fifield PIC: Douglas Robertson

Fraser Fifield on his musical tribute to storyteller Stanley Robertson

The documentary features several gamekeepers speaking out about how policy changes in the Scottish Government have impacted their way of life (pic: Shepherds of Wildlife Society & Tony Bynum copyright 2024)

Film explores ideologies behind the 'fight for control' for Scotland's Highlands

Former SNP president Michael Russell has been appointed to head up the Scottish Land Commission. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Michael Russell as Scottish Land Commission chair prompts 'erosion of trust'

Campaigners gather outside Holyrood to protest short-term let licensing plans (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Readers' Letters: Government is right to push forward short-term lets licensing

When even Robin Harper quits Greens, why is Humza Yousaf still tied to them? Murdo Fraser

Scottish Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater are ministers in the Scottish Government after striking a deal with the SNP (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

How much damage will Green chancers do before they’re called out? – Brian Wilson

The Scottish Government has committed hundreds of millions of pounds to land restoration projects, causing land prices to rise (Picture: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)

'Land restoration' pot of gold for greenwashing speculators must be questioned

Music tuition was thrown into chaos with students turning up to find their classes had been cancelled (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

How Scottish ministers threw Youth Music Initiative into chaos – Andy Wightman

The Kinrara Estate

Insight: Scotland's great Net Zero land grab

The new register will bolster transparency around land ownership, but it has several glaring weaknesses. (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Question of who owns Scotland will not be settled by new register

Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie said it would be disappointing for the BBC to leave the Stonewall diversity scheme

Patrick Harvie: Stonewall charity is victim of 'opportunistic hate campaign'

Scottish Greens co-leaders Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie could become ministers in the SNP-led government (Picture: John Devlin)

Lorna Slater's meteoric rise to the brink of government office – Gina Davidson

Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has as self-serving an ego as old-style Scottish politics ever saw, says Murdo Fraser (Picture: John Devlin)

SNP coalition with 'thoughtphobic' Greens will damage Scotland – Murdo Fraser

SNP dominance in Holyrood may be a foregone conclusion ahead of Thursday’s vote, but there are still several important questions that the result will answer.

Seven key questions the Scottish Parliament election will answer

First Minister of Scotland and leader of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon, visits J Charles fish merchants in Aberdeen during campaigning for the Scottish Parliamentary election.

Race for Holyrood: Scotland's party leaders reveal their favourite songs

Laura Marshall is standing at this Scottish election as an independent candidate

Insight: The independent candidates taking on Holyrood's party hegemony

The Scotsman is holding its sixth election hustings in the Highlands and Islands regional list area

RECAP: Watch the Scotsman's sixth election virtual hustings here

A Ukrainian serviceman works on his tank near the city of Lysychansk, not far from the front line with Russian-backed separatists earlier this month (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

The United Nations' founding ideals are at risk – Joyce McMillan

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon giving evidence to the Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints, at Holyrood in Edinburgh, examining the handling of harassment allegations against former first minister Alex Salmond. Picture: PA

MSPs 'walked out' of Salmond committee following report leak

Nicola Sturgeon has survived a vote of no confidence.

Sturgeon says she will not be 'bullied' out of office after surviving vote

Former first minister Alex Salmond gives evidence. Picture: Andy Buchanan - Pool/Getty Images

Complainers in Alex Salmond case to make formal complaint over evidence leak

Nicola Sturgeon faces a vote of no confidence this week

The Holyrood committee system is not fit for purpose - Readers' Letters

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon attends First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament

Euan McColm: Is this really the beginning of the end for Nicola Sturgeon?

Nicola Sturgeon has been First Minister for more than six years, but for how much longer, John McLellan wonders (Picture: Andy Buchanan/PA Wire)

Shattered trust in Sturgeon may mean a new political chapter – John McLellan

Nicola Sturgeon takes the oath before giving evidence to the Holyrood committee set up to investigate the Scottish government's handling of complaints made about Alex Salmond (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Will election give SNP the power to further debase Scotland? – Brian Wilson

Andy Wightman has tweeted part of the code of conduct for MSPs that states leaks to the media can “seriously undermine” the work of Parliament, after news broke that a bombshell committee vote had found Nicola Sturgeon misled Holyrood.

Andy Wightman tweets MSP code of conduct after leak of committee’s Sturgeon vote

Scotland has the worst homeless death rate in the UK picture: PA/Yui Mok

Nicola Sturgeon's response to introducing permanent eviction ban

Alex Salmond is set to appear in front of the harassment complaints committee next week

Alex Salmond inquiry: Date agreed for former first minister's appearance but fin...

Trans rights campaigners demonstrate outside the Scottish Parliament (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Trans rights and women's rights both matter – Kenny MacAskill

Legislation for a licensing regime to tackle the growth of short-term lets have been recommended for approval by a Holyrood committee.

'Not fit for purpose' short-term let licensing scheme approved by Holyrood commi...

Andy Wightman resigned from the Scottish Greens.

Green co-leader dismisses impact of Wightman resignation

Andy Wightman, formerly a Scottish Green MSP, is considering standing as an independent.

Holyrood 2021: Andy Wightman tests water on standing as independent

JK Rowling has been clear how much the definition of words matter to her. (Picture: Justin Tallis/Getty Images)

Women exist, and we should be allowed to say so – Gina Davidson

Andy Wightman has given an emotional interview about his decision to resign from the Scottish Greens.

Wightman says Greens trans policy 'not rooted in science'
Lothians MSP Andy Wightman, who resigned from the Scottish Greens last month, has given an emotional interview in which he claims he felt “ashamed” after being ...

MSP Andy Wightman has lodged a motion urging Scottish ministers to sever ties with the remote island of Rockall, which was claimed as a UK territory in 1955 and made part of Scotland in 1972

Scotland urged to disclaim Rockall to distance from UK’s “last act of colonialis...

Andy Wightman has quit the Greens

Andy Wightman would be a genuine loss to Holyrood - Brian Wilson

Andy Wightman has quit the Greens over "intolerance"

Andy Wightman quits Scottish Greens over 'intolerance' on trans issue

Evictions call: Andy Wightman

Christmas eviction ban as campaigners call for veto to last the winter

Heather, birches and aspens at Glen Affric with the Caledonian Forest in the distance. PIC: Flickr/CC/Tim Hayes

Trees should cover 40% of Scotland, say Greens

John Devlin 03/01/2020. GLASGOW. Stock shot of For Sale sign. property for sale, housing, GV, general view, property market. builders, building, file pic, for sale, flat.

Ministers must prevent 'tidal wave' of evictions

AirBnB locks outside a block of flats in Edinburgh

One in three Airbnb hosts offer NHS staff free stays

Key safes, at a block of flats in Edinburgh,
are a tell-tale sign of short-term let properties (Picture: Ian Rutherford)

Airbnb-style short-term lets should be regulated – leader comment

Adam McVey fell short of criticising the announcement by the Scottish Government that tenement Airbnbs will reopen from July 15.

Airbnbs must be safe, government is urged

AirBnB locks outside a block of flats in Edinburgh

Ban Airbnbs till October, says MSP

Key boxes for Airbnb properties outside a tenement flat in Upper Bow, Edinburgh

Tenement Airbnbs must stay shut, says government

Andy Wightman was among MSPs to call for further guidance.

MSPs call for action on Airbnbs and Covid-19 after concerns labelled 'manifestly...

Nicola Sturgeon’s fear that coming out of lockdown will be harder than going in has a ring of truth, says Joyce McMillan (Picture: Fraser Bremner/Scottish Daily Mail/PA Wire)

Why did Scotland follow UK into Europe's worst Covid outbreak? – Joyce McMillan

Andy Wightman's call for a rent freeze was rejected by MSPs

Lothian MSP call for 'two year rent freeze' as part of Covid-19 emergency laws r...

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