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December 2013
New Book Reviews are added for Entry Island by Peter May, Colouring the Nation: The Turkey Red Printed Cotton Industry in Scotland C.1840-1940 by Stana Nenadic and Sally Tuckett, The Scottish Shale Oil Industry & Mineral Railway Lines by Harry Knox, Cross and Burn by Val McDermid, Nature's Peace: A Celebration of Scotland's Watershed by Peter Wright and Wave Me Goodbye by Ruby Jackson.
November 2013
Feature pages are added for St Mary's Chapel, Grandtully, Fowlis Wester Sculptured Stone, Muthill, Muthill Old Church, Ardchattan Priory Garden, Ardchattan Priory and Ardchattan Kirk. The feature pages for Caerlaverock Castle, Abington, St Ninian's Church, Dunkeld Cathedral, Drymen, Sound of Barra Ferry, Eilean Bàn, Kyleakin, Isleornsay, the Mallaig to Armadale ferry, Armadale on Skye, The Fringe, Edinburgh Festival, International Book Festival, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Edinburgh Mela Festival, Edinburgh Foodies Festival, Easdale, Seil, Ellenabeich, Port Appin and Glenorchy Church are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Bella's Betrothal by Anne Stenhouse, Ancestors in the Arctic: A Photographic History of Dundee Whaling by Malcolm Archibald, The Lifeboat Service in Scotland Station by Station by Nicholas Leach, The First Blast of the Trumpet by Marie Macpherson, Wish You Were Still Here: The Scottish Seaside Holiday by Eric Simpson, The Longest Shadow by R. J. Mitchell, Peterhead: The Inside Story of Scotland's Toughest Prison by Robert Jeffrey, Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin, Endgame at Port Bannatyne by Myra Duffy, Portobello and the Great War by Archie Foley and Margaret Munro, The Call of the Mountains: A Journey of a Thousand Miles Across Scotland's Munros by Max Landsberg and The Law Killers: True Crime from Dundee by Alexander McGregor.
October 2013
The feature pages for Armadale Castle Gardens and the Museum of the Isles are revised, updated and given new images. A hotel review is added for Loch Melfort Hotel. A dining review is added for Loch Melfort Hotel. A new film review is added for Sunshine on Leith. New Book Reviews are added for Gathering Storm by Maggie Craig, Pilgrim Soul by Gordon Ferris, Call Me Sister: District Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties by Jane Yeadon, How a Gunman Says Goodbye by Malcolm Mackay, All Because of Henry by Nuala Gardner, The Tweed to the Northern Isles: The Fishing Industry Through Time by Mike Smylie and Mair Weegie Wan-Liners by Ian Black.
September 2013
Feature pages are added for Blackford, Blackford Old Parish Church, Battle of Sheriffmuir and Stonehouse. The feature pages for RAF Leuchars Airshow, Tullibardine Distillery, Coulter Motte and Carnwath are revised, updated and given new images. Hotel reviews are added for Hotel Eilean Iarmain, Duisdale House Hotel and Toravaig House Hotel. Dining reviews are added for Hotel Eilean Iarmain, Duisdale House Hotel and Toravaig House Hotel. New Book Reviews are added for Kirkcaldy Through Time by Walter Burt, Walking the Corbetts Volume 2, North of the Great Glen by Brian Johnson, Whisky Wars, Riots and Murder: Crime in the 19th Century Highlands and Islands by Malcolm Archibald, A Saga of Sea Eagles by John A. Love, The Sunlit Summit: The Life of W. H. Murray by Robin Lloyd-Jones, West Highland Line: Great Railway Journeys Through Time by John McGregor and West Highland Extension: Great Railway Journeys Through Time by John McGregor.
August 2013
Feature pages are added for Strathaven Castle, Crawford, Lesmahagow, Lesmahagow Priory, Brow Well, Nith Bridge Cross, Lockerbie Garden of Remembrance, Twelve Apostles Stone Circle, Preston Tower, Preston Cross, Battle of Prestonpans, Saltcoats Castle and St Patrick's Chapel, Gullane. The feature pages for St Mary's Aisle, Strathaven, Lockerbie, Tantallon Castle, Hailes Castle, East Linton, Seacliff, Dirleton, Tarskavaig, Dunblane, Dunblane Cathedral, Prestonpans, Hallmuir Ukranian Chapel, St Andrew's Kirk, Gullane, Lochmaben Castle, Craignethan Castle, Inchmahome Priory, Crieff, Comrie, Glenturret Distillery and the Earthquake House are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for Highland Buses by John Sinclair, The Buses of Northern Scottish by Peter Findlay, Glasgow Central Station Through Time by Michael Meighan, A Burden Shared: The Dundee Murders by Malcolm Archibald, Winchman by Chris Murray, Tom Weir: An Anthology by Tom Weir, Edited by Hamish M. Brown and Kirkcudbright's Prince of Denmark: And Her Voyages in the South Seas by David R. Collin. The Undiscovered Scotland structure is rationalised in one area, with Eastern Argyll, including Helensburgh, the Rosneath Peninsula, Arrochar and Tarbert moving to become part of a new Cowal, Bute and Eastern Argyll area.
July 2013
Feature pages are added for Dunollie Castle, McCaig's Tower, Pulpit Hill, St Columba's Cathedral, Tynreich Stone Circle and the Museum of Lead Mining. The feature pages for Oban, The Royal Highland Show, East Fortune Airshow, Wanlockhead, Leadhills, Irvine Harbourside and Rosslyn Chapel are revised, updated and given new images. Hotel reviews are added for Knight Residence Apartments and the Atholl Arms Hotel. A dining review review is added for the Atholl Arms Hotel. New Book Reviews are added for The Pheasant Plucker by Bill Daly, Unsafe Acts by Bill Kirton, The Red Man Turns to Green: An Assortment of Short Stories by Dickson Telfer, Mary, Queen of Scots: 'In My End is My Beginning' by Rosalind K. Marshall, Walking Highland Perthshire by Ronald Turnbull, Walking in the Angus Glens by James Carron, Churchill's Angels by Ruby Jackson and Gauntlet of Fear by David Cargill.
June 2013
Feature pages are added for Drumlanrig Castle, Drumlanrig Castle Gardens, Scottish Cycle Museum, John Buchan Story, Craobh Haven, Carnasserie Castle, Kilmartin Glen, Kilmartin Museum, Kilmartin Church, Kilmartin Sculptured Stones, Temple Wood, Ri Cruin Cairn, Dunchraigaig Cairn, Nether Largie Standing Stones and Nether Largie South Cairn. The feature pages for Banchory, Thornhill, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Peebles, Tullibardine Distillery, Meikleour Beech Hedge, Huntingtower Castle, Oban Distillery, Oban War & Peace Museum, Dunkeld, Dunadd and Kilmartin are revised, updated and given new images. Hotel reviews are added for Trigony House Hotel, The Tontine Hotel and Hilton Dunkeld House Hotel. Dining reviews are added for Trigony House Hotel, The Tontine Hotel and Hilton Dunkeld House Hotel. New Book Reviews are added for Pray for the Dying by Quintin Jardine, A Capital Union by Victoria Hendry, A Taste for Malice by Michael J. Malone and The Cape Wrath Trail by Iain Harper.
May 2013
Feature pages are added for Castle Sween, Kilmory Knap Chapel, Cross Slab, Inverlussa Church, the Museum of Edinburgh, the Museum of Childhood, the People's Story Museum, the Writers' Museum, Earthquake House, David Stirling Memorial, Glenturret Distillery and Deanston Distillery. The feature pages for Crinan, Crinan Canal, Carstairs, Crieff, Comrie, Deanston, Doune, Aberdeen, Cairnryan, Northlink's Shetland and Orkney ferry services, Lerwick, St Margaret's Hope, Stromness and Scrabster are revised, updated and given new images. A hotel review is added for Ballathie House Hotel. A dining review is added for Ballathie House Hotel.
April 2013
The feature page for St Fillans is revised, updated and given new images. A hotel review is added for The Four Seasons Hotel, St Fillans. A dining review is added for The Four Seasons Hotel, St Fillans. New Book Reviews are added for Glasgow: The Real Mean City by Malcolm Archibald, Killing Fields of Scotland: AD83 to 1746 by R. J. M. Pugh, The Ancient Pinewoods of Scotland, a Traveller's Guide by Clifton Bain, The Kilmarnock Fact Book by Frank Beattie, Aberdeenshire Tramways by Mike Mitchell and Dunfermline & West Fife's Trams & Buses by Walter Burt. Info pages across the site are updated to reflect the merging of Scotland's eight regional police forces into Police Scotland.
March 2013
New Book Reviews are added for Scotland's Hidden Hauntings by G Stewart, Three Men on the Way Way: A Story of Walking the West Highland Way by Hamish Brown and The Devil's Recruit by S.G. MacLean. Links to mapping information throughout the site are checked and improved. External links from all feature pages about visitor attractions are manually checked to ensure they are unbroken and that they continue to direct visitors to the correct destinations.
February 2013
New Book Reviews are added for Screams in the Dark by Anna Smith, The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak by Dilip Sarkar, Stonemouth by Iain Banks, Hebridean Princess: In Pictures by Bryan Kennedy, Wooden Fishing Boats of Scotland by James A. Pottinger and Scotland's Lost Industries by Michael Meighan. The feature page for Hebridean Princess is revised and updated. All external links from listings pages across the site are manually checked to ensure they are unbroken and that they continue to direct visitors to the correct destinations. The clickable index map on the Main Page is changed to give a clearer idea of important settlements and islands. The Map Indexes are restructured to be more intuitive, and to relate better to the areas each actually covers.
January 2013
The Free Wallpaper Collections are expanded, providing wallpapers in the widescreen formats of 1920x1080 pixels and 1336x768 pixels. The Free Jigsaw Puzzles collection is updated and new puzzles are added. The feature pages for Edinburgh Festival, The Fringe, International Book Festival, Edinburgh Mela Festival and Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo are revised, updated and given new images. New Book Reviews are added for The Chessmen by Peter May and Great British Shipwrecks by Rod Macdonald.
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