A CD celebrating moorland landscapes is being launched at a free concert tonight. On Heather and Clarty Moor was commissioned by the North York Moors National Park and features ten folk musicians ...

A dirty word if ever there was one. There’s an appropriately guttural quality about the word clarty, a firmly colloquial term that describes something or someone caked in mud, spilled ginger and ...

Scottish people have shared their picks for the best Scots words that are "on the decline". Everything from 'oxters' to 'clarty' was suggested. While Scotland is known for many things, our language is ...

Two BOOST Fellows currently at the school — Shanique Graham (cohort 2) and Garrick Barrett (cohort 4) — said they were ...

This was not something he could contemplate, his folks in their 80s and possessed of mournful Donegal accents which TV would not find sexy. Boyle impersonated his dad: “I don’t trust elevators ...

Clarty Commandos has been totally destroyed by the fire. "When we left at 4pm everything was spot on. I was just sitting down to eat at 5.40pm when I got a call to say that the woodland was on fire.

This was a former ash dump, referred to locally as a ‘great big clarty field’, and had no proper access. Nevertheless it was picked out as far back as 1979 - then snapped up for just £100,000.