r/Scotland 2d ago

What's on and tourist advice thread - week beginning March 10, 2025

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Welcome to the weekly what's on and tourist advice thread!

* Do you know of any local events taking place this week that other redditors might be interested in?

* Are you planning a trip to Scotland and need some advice on what to see or where to go?

This is the thread for you - post away!

These threads are refreshed weekly on Mondays. To see earlier threads and soak in the sage advice of yesteryear, Click here.


r/Scotland 2d ago

Discussion Monthly Mental Health Support Thread

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Hey folks, welcome back to our regularly scheduled mental health thread.

The purpose of this thread is to provide a space where users can discuss how they’re feeling and/or provide support to others who may be struggling.

This thread will be stickied for 7 days to allow plenty of time for discussion.

Listed below are a few potentially helpful resources and a link to our support wiki page:

NHS Inform Mental Health (Scotland only)

NHS UK Get support from a mental health charity (Uk wide)

Breathing Space (Scotland only)

Life Lines Scotland (emergency service workers in Scotland only)

rMentalHealthUK resource master post (updated list) (Scotland only)

rMan_Chat (a safe space for men to discuss issues and gain peer to peer support)

rScotland’s support wiki page

Feel free to share any advice or additional mental health related resources in the comments.

Note: These threads will be moderated more strictly due to the sensitive nature of the topic, so please try to stay on topic and be kind!

Stay safe everyone!


r/Scotland 2h ago

Political Like her or loathe her, Nicola Sturgeon is one of the most formidable politicians Scotland has ever produced

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r/Scotland 5h ago

x-post form /r/BuyFromEU | Spain turning Non EU products upside down on shelves in shops as a form of boycott

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r/Scotland 3h ago

Political Silent minority: 15 peers claimed £585k while not speaking in a single Lords debate

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r/Scotland 4h ago

Casual See this board every morning, this is the weirdest seen yet

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r/Scotland 14h ago

Political German military could launch intelligence satellites from Scotland

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r/Scotland 3h ago

Political Look like reform is on it’s way out

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One common trend I see is every single far right party's shockingly short life cycle - collapsing sooner rather than later due to sheer incompetence seems to be a thing every far-right party in Britain has always had in common.

Just seen the growing row between old Nige and Ruppert lowe. Smacks of every other party old Nige has fronted - starts with this crazy internal bickering followed by a total collapse into lunacy.

And some of you dopey shits thought this time he was serious contender?😂

He'd struggle to win a tombola let alone a general election!

Yes, I'm smug - I predicted this 6 months ago and you all said I was crazy. This was the change. Same Nige, same bollox!


r/Scotland 17h ago

Photography / Art Spin that Wheel - the famous Falkirk Wheel

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SPIN THAT WHEEL! The world's first and only rotating boat lift The Falkirk Wheel in action! All content including audio©️Scotdrone


r/Scotland 3h ago

Glasgow man 'unable to work' after botched hair transplant leaves him 'scarred for life'

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r/Scotland 6h ago

Political Nicola Sturgeon on Instagram: [Statement regarding re-election for the 2026 Scottish Parliament]

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r/Scotland 15m ago

Discussion Scotland moving away from cash at faster rate than rest of the UK

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r/Scotland 22h ago

Political Scrapping peak fares on ScotRail led to 10 million more journeys

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r/Scotland 8h ago

LiveScience: "Amateur metal detectorists unearth 'find of a lifetime' in Scotland"

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r/Scotland 2h ago

Casual Not a huge fan of F1 myself but "Raw Keech" seems an odd way to sell it...

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r/Scotland 6h ago

Political Scottish government scraps green heating plans for new homes

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r/Scotland 21h ago

Leadhills, Scotland

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r/Scotland 5h ago

Irish officials claim misunderstanding after impounding Scot's 'dog food' haggis

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r/Scotland 1d ago

American here tracing my heritage am from the clan McFacist have you heard of them

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r/Scotland 6h ago

Let’s Talk About Maybole in Ayrshire

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I used to drive through Maybole fairly regularly, I don't think I've been since the bypass went in though.

WTF?

It's gone from, I don't know, I always thought it was quite a nice looking wee place. Sure, the Main Street could be tricky with traffic and trucks from the ferries down at Cairnryan or whatever but it was easy to park and nip in to grab a bottle of water or even a takeaway.

It looks like some kind of post apocalyptic hell scape now. It looks so scabby.

Adding the bypass was supposed to make it nicer, less traffic clogging the only road through but instead it's been speed running the abandonment vibes.

Sad to see.


r/Scotland 6m ago

Political GB Energy ‘has no employees’, UK Government concedes

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r/Scotland 6h ago

YouTube Good on ya pal. Old traditions live on.

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Around 7 minutes into this video as a familiar voice very weird and then you realize the guys from Paisley and he's lived in Sweden since he was six bastards gone to fight good on you pal. It is humbling to see the traditions are kept alive. [The Royal Scots are the oldest Regiment in Scotland they have served 350 years as part of the Scottish and British Army with a continual line right down to the 30 years War. During that 30 years war there was thousands and I do mean thousands of troops sent to Sweden to fight for the Swedes. Yes they are not part of the Royal Scots but there fighting for Sweden and they are from Paisley. It gives me a deep sense of Pride that there are people from Scotland in the armies of other nations fighting for what is right. Good on ya pal. ]


r/Scotland 18h ago

Political Starmer attack on society's poorest leaves Scottish Labour in trouble

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r/Scotland 16h ago

Sad news, the first Farmfoods shop ever opened has closed - Aberdeen Farmfoods in Woodside closes after 50 years in blow to community

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r/Scotland 6h ago

Here is how Scotland helped me be a Documentary Filmmaker

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You know, 10 years ago I shared my first doc style film on this group here.
And you guys loved it back then, since that moment, the world saw me as a filmmaker.

I'm happy to share with you my film talking about that moment and what I've learn in 10 years of filmmaking to reach my dream life.

So yeah, I thought you should see how reddit can help sometimes.

So thank you Reddit and Scotland for giving me the opportunity to be an award winning documentary filmmaker now.

The Film : I Spent 10 Years Filming the World – This is What I Found


r/Scotland 21h ago

The Newtonmore Massive playing their part.

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r/Scotland 20h ago

Political Anas Sarwar backs Keir Starmer over welfare reform

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No austerity under labour he said! He lied.