It has been called the key to opening Scotland’s past – a vast repository of more than three million records, images and documents detailing ...

Katharine Hay sits down with Shaila Rao, who has been the ecologist at Mar Lodge Estate for the last two decades to hear how the landscape has changed.

Allison McMahon was out for a drive around St Andrews and Crail when she spotted this small herd of Highland cows. A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 24 and 31 January.