The snap, taken by photographer Sally Lloyd-Jones, features the colourful bird cheekily standing on a 'no fishing' sign...with a fish in its mouth.

Kirkcudbright kingfisher finalist in Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

Broughton House was under threat because of a £30 million pound hole in the National Trust for Scotland's (NTS) finances nationally.

Broughton House in Kirkcudbright to reopen

 Last year a project examined the remains of beached vessels that sit on the shoreline of the bay.

Border Life celebrates the artists' town of Kirkcudbright with a look at what drew painters to the Solway coast.

Art installations in the town have been damaged by vandals, and police are appealing for information. 

Freddie Maitland, of Kirkcudbright, died after a Nissan car and a lorry collided on the road at Crackenthorpe on Friday.


Campaigners say Viking hoard belongs in Kirkcudbright not Edinburgh 

Kirkcudbright Gallery Project has met initial criteria to secure funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.