All train movements on the Far North Line have been controlled by a Radio Electronic Token Block workstation at Inverness since 1995, having already been introduced on the Kyle Line some 11 years earlier.

His job is not simply to rehearse and conduct the orchestra, but also to schedule the roster of house and guest conductors needed during ballet seasons, help to plan repertory programs and the musical direction of new productions and work closely with the dancers and balletmasters.

What he witnessed was probably the first observed exchange of money for sex in the history of monkeykind.

… the more expensive and creamier Jersey or South Devon milk, for example, is kept apart from Friesian milk, with its low butter content.