Edinburgh is the `Athens of the North' and now Scotland has grounds to make a claim for an emerging `Pisa of the North'. Stephen Goodwin, Heritage Correspondent, reports on a monument on the move.

Loch Broom FM may be Britain's smallest radio station, but it inspires huge affection among its growing audience around Ullapool. It must be something to do with the Mac Archers and the midges. By Ken Stephinson

A man was yesterday under arrest by police hunting the killer of Carol Park whose body was in Coniston Water.

FLYING SAUCERS: Figments of imagination often with mundane explanations, such as weather balloons, aircraft, etc.

Bookmakers yesterday slashed the odds on the Loch Ness monster emerging from its lair by the end of 1997. News of the discovery of a deep underwater cavern in the loch sent Ladbrokes into a panic, cutting its odds on the discovery of the monster this year by a third.

Labour would ban speeding boats on Lake Windermere, Michael Meacher, the party's environment spokesman, has pledged.

Q: What links organic vegetables, London tap water, "gender-bending" chemicals, tight underpants and membership of the Mafia?

Last year Swan Lake underwent a sex change. Matthew Bourne's radical production for Adventures in Motion Pictures famously swapped tutus for bare chests and rewrote the plot to create a powerful psychological drama. Now it's out on video (Warner Vision, pounds 14.99), and we have 25 copies to give away. For a chance of winning one, simply tell us which other current West End show has choreography by Matthew Bourne.

Sir: Following your useful coverage of problems facing the National Trust ("Trust's old guard pulls up the drawbridge", 2 November), I write to comment on one point in your report of the subsequent debate at the AGM ("National Trust: We're no clique", 4 November), where a Members' Resolution asked for more information on the numbers of members voting on Members' Resolutions.

The Loch Lomond World Invitational is to be staged the week before the Open championship at Royal Troon next July, replacing the Scottish Open.

Sail is best, say the authorities at Lake Windermere. Steve Goodwin reports

One of the UK's biggest shopping centres, Lakeside, announced yesterday that it is to become the first to launch its own credit card.

Sir: I enjoyed the picture of the crannog in Loch Tay ("Bronze Age high-rise comes home to Loch Tay with a house on stilts", 8 August). I believe that at least one of the six volunteers working on the project, "using traditional building methods", may have made a discovery even greater than the scientists analysing the Martian meteorite.

Plans for a powerboat speed limit on Lake Windermere were thwarted yesterday when John Gummer, Secretary of State for the Environment, refused to allow a by-law proposed by the Lake District National Park.