🔴 Firm buys historic 15,000-acre Highlands estate to 'rewild'

Good morning Voornaam

We are now well into January, and the world of politics - for good and bad - is back in full swing. Businesses are also making critical decisions early in the new year - and it's on that front we bring you our first story of the day.

As our Rural Affairs Correspondent Katharine Hay reports, a firm has bought a Highland estate sprawling over 15,000 acres across the Cairngorms National Park, and intends to use the property for rewilding and to sell carbon credits.

Read about all the plans here

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Read the full story here

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Lastly for today, fancy a new job for a new year? There can't be many with more spectacular views in the world than this one, spanning three lighthouses in dramatic locations across Scotland's coast.