residents awake. The epicentre of the quake was close to the town of Lochgilphead in Argyll and Bute

One of the tremors awoke one resident, with the shaking of their house feeling “ like a freight train ”.... It rumbled on for about 10 seconds afterwards, so it was quite frightening.“ I have experienced them before here but never to that extent.... The house has never shook like that in the past.” The largest recorded earthquake in Scotland occurred in 1880, with a magnitude of 5.2. They are often attributed to glacial rebound....

The King surprised a group of cyclists who were going for a ride around Balmoral when he stopped to talk to them. The monarch was hiking alone on the Scottish estate over the summer when he passed the mountain bikers, who happened to be filming during the unlikely encounter. Wearing a flat cap and brown padded jacket and carrying a walking stick, the King chatted to the group about the weather and reminisced on some of his childhood memories on the estate with his family.In footage posted to You