r/Scotland • • 3d ago

What's on and tourist advice thread - week beginning October 11, 2026

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Welcome to the weekly what's on and tourist advice thread!

* Do you know of any local events taking place this week that other redditors might be interested in?

* Are you planning a trip to Scotland and need some advice on what to see or where to go?

This is the thread for you - post away!

These threads are refreshed weekly on Mondays. To see earlier threads and soak in the sage advice of yesteryear, Click here.


r/Scotland • • 4d ago

Discussion Monthly Mental Health Support Thread

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Hey folks, welcome back to our regularly scheduled mental health thread.

The purpose of this thread is to provide a space where users can discuss how they’re feeling and/or provide support to others who may be struggling.

This thread will be stickied for 7 days to allow plenty of time for discussion.

Listed below are a few potentially helpful resources and a link to our support wiki page:

•NHS Inform Mental Health (Scotland only)

•NHS UK Get support from a mental health charity (Uk wide)

•Breathing Space (Scotland only)

•Life Lines Scotland (emergency service workers in Scotland only)

•rMentalHealthUK resource master post (updated list) (Scotland only)

•rMan_Chat (a safe space for men to discuss issues and gain peer to peer support)

•rScotland’s support wiki page

Feel free to share any advice or additional mental health related resources in the comments.

Note: These threads will be moderated more strictly due to the sensitive nature of the topic, so please try to stay on topic and be kind!

Stay safe everyone!


r/Scotland • • 16h ago

Photography / Art Spotted in Glasgow.

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r/Scotland • • 11h ago

Casual Inchcailloch and Loch Lomond give off such a cool vibe in Autumn

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We love how misty it was and how green everything was


r/Scotland • • 8h ago

Political Majority of Scots support independence in new poll

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r/Scotland • • 11h ago

Anger after Norwegian trawler lands half of Shetland’s saithe quota in one trip

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r/Scotland • • 8h ago

Political SNP to survey 1.5 million Scots in 'biggest independence push in a decade'

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r/Scotland • • 7h ago

Scotland North Coast 500 Thru Hike 2025

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r/Scotland • • 10h ago

Photography / Art Photo dump

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Currently doing the NC500. Sharing some scenic shots (I hope). First time being this far north in my own country lol


r/Scotland • • 12h ago

Cool photos I took last weekend

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r/Scotland • • 10h ago

Beyond the Wall Edinburgh Has Been Named One of the World’s Best Cities for Public Transport

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r/Scotland • • 9h ago

I do not have confidence UK is safe from Russian threats - Swinney

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r/Scotland • • 12h ago

Political Greens urge SNP to introduce ‘Amazon tax’ on big online businesses

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r/Scotland • • 5h ago

ScotRail Passenger Journeys Top 48.41 Million After Bumper 6 Months - Up 7%

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“A total of 48,419,573 journeys were recorded between 1 April and 30 September 2026 – an increase of more than 3.1 million, or 7%, compared with the same six-month period last year.

The latest figures continue a sustained rise in passenger numbers since ScotRail returned to public ownership in April 2022.”

It would appear ScotRail is a success, and I’m glad. But when are they going to upgrade the ancient trains, and bring down prices in/from the North and East?


r/Scotland • • 11h ago

Question Anyone annoyed at the electric bikes?

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This might be the wrong flair, so apologies

Is it just me, or is anyone else angry at these teens on e-bikes, e-scooters, darting into traffic, on the main roads endangering both their and others’ safety?

It’s like today, driving home and these teens were darting into oncoming traffic, even going into the wrong lane.

I always just feel intimidated by them, so I imagine how bad it must be for other local communities putting up with these teens with £3.5K bikes, and them endangering people

I feel like both the government and the police could be doing more, because kids over the age of 14 (I believe) are allowed to drive these, no exam or anything

Also, the image might be related, as it’s part of the same topic

The images source is: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/30302617/idiot-big-man-instant-karma/

Edit: and before anyone comes here saying “you’ve never lived in a scheme”, a) I’ve not been alive in the 90’s, only early 2000’s and b) where I live, we see kids on these things on our roads as well acting recklessly


r/Scotland • • 15h ago

We FOI'd all 14 Scottish health boards on ADHD & autism waits, now gathering lived experiences (anonymous 5-min survey, Scotland)

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I run ADHD Scot, an independent, non-commercial information project. Scotland doesn't publish how long people wait for ADHD or autism assessments, and the Government's own FOI responses to our requests admit it doesn't hold the data. So I asked all 14 health boards directly. The picture is stark and very inconsistent: waits of 3+ years, some boards giving only one city's figures, at least one with no adult service at all.

Official numbers only tell half the story, so I've made a short anonymous survey to capture what it's actually like, by health board. No name, no email. About 5 minutes. Results will be grouped by board and shared with MSPs, the Scottish Parliament if possible, and in a report we intend to publish later this year, to push for proper data and better services.

If you're in Scotland and have waited (or are waiting), or you're a parent/carer, I'd really value your response and a share: https://forms.gle/mR5cjvovfy54ifte7

More about the project: https://adhdscot.co.uk.

Mods, if this isn't allowed, apologies, please remove. Thank you! :)


r/Scotland • • 13h ago

Paisley actor Martin Quinn reveals how a Burnistoun sketch made it into Star Trek

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r/Scotland • • 1d ago

John Cleese urges St Andrews students not to elect Q Manivannan as rector

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r/Scotland • • 16h ago

Birdlife of the Morvern Peninisula, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (Buzzard, Pipit, Stonechat)

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r/Scotland • • 15h ago

Political NHS health boards not consulted before John Swinney announced they would be scrapped

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r/Scotland • • 6h ago

Looking at UK cross-border movement of Undergrad students

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r/Scotland • • 16h ago

Sanquhar II wind farm completes last of 44 foundation base pours.

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r/Scotland • • 1d ago

Photography / Art Echoes of the piper.my watercolour paying tribute to the lads of ww1

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r/Scotland • • 12h ago

Ancient News BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Keepers of the Light: James Crawford explores how Robert Louis Stevenson rejected his family’s lighthouse dynasty for literature, and how the sea and its lights continued to shape his imagination.

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r/Scotland • • 6h ago

Accessible public transport in Scotland - share your travel experiences (anonymous 5-7 min survey, mod approved)

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Hi r/Scotland - posting with the mods' permission.

I'm Frederick, part of a small Stirling-based team building CommutAble, an accessibility-first journey planning platform for disabled and older travellers. Most journey planners optimise for speed - but for many disabled and older people, the fastest route isn't a usable route. With 24.1% of people in Scotland reporting a disability in the 2022 census, this affects a lot of us.

We're running a short anonymous survey (5-7 minutes, Google Forms, no email collected, no sign-in needed) about public transport accessibility experiences - the barriers you face on buses, trains and trams, and what would genuinely help. We're co-designing the product with the community, so your answers directly shape what gets built.

Survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9zuxCaw8Odzisn97_wbYTyorjTRx0haQQpXjUMN0Kf-7qAQ/viewform

Whether you travel yourself, or support someone who does, we'd really value your voice. Thanks!