Dead animals were left to rot in village

Alan Smith left the sheep and lamb carcasses — many of which were reduced to just bones — in a field at Braeface Farm. By failing to identify and remove the dead livestock, which were in or near water, the 39-year-old risked diseases such as B

Traditionally modern Banknock home ticks all the boxes

Thistle Cottage, Braeface Road, Banknock. That sense of the best of the both worlds continues inside. Thistle Cottage in Banknock was built just three years ago by Dan Henderson and son Daniel, a chartered building surveyor, working together o

Jane Duncan may be out of print for 40 years but she is about to be heard again

I AM sitting now at the Back Window, which looks away to the north, with the long field and the march dyke in the foreground, and beyond them the fertile fields of Braeface sloping down to the Firth. It is full tide at the moment and the Firth