A selection of photographs submitted to BBC Scotland News from around the country this week.

LIKE most people, I abhor cruelty towards animals; like most people, I eat some meat and hope that the animal it has come from has been ...

Legislation framed by the Alliance Party as a ban on fox hunting would effectively outlaw all hunting of wild mammals for ...

The hunting with dogs legislation currently before the assembly does not replicate exemptions passed in Scotland which ban ...

Yellowstone National Park’s elk are known to migrate hundreds of miles, but in 1905 seven cows and three bulls likely set a ...

This potential new home features an unspoilt coastline ...

Previously, the course Taymouth Castle was laid out over 200 acres of an old deer park. The layout was fairly flat, ...

Traveling golfers can be excused for assuming the coast of Scotland is one long stretch of startling linksland. After all, it’s in these seaside locations where so many legendary golf courses are ...