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Barry and Victoria Watkins moved their two youngest kids and family dog Chica from Chelmsford to Monikie. Image: Mhairi Edwards/DC Thomson.

The only way is Angus: Essex couple open up on family’s life-changing move to Monikie

Barry and Victoria Watkins fell in love with the Angus village when they appeared on house-hunting show Escape To The Country.

By Rebecca Baird

Clockwise from left: Anna, Maggie, Laurel, Justin, Ailie and Finnan. Image: Kenny Smith/DC Thomson

The US influencer family sharing Fife life with 18k Instagram followers across the pond

Anna and Justin Brulla - known as The Irn Brulla's Abroad to their social media followers - left the US for Fife.

By Poppy Watson

Culdees Castle owners Tracey and Rob Beaton with her mother Kathleen and daughters Evie and Ava-Grace. Image: Steve MacDougall/DC Thomson.

Meet the family who bought a Perthshire castle – and are transforming it from derelict to dreamy

Culdees Castle near Muthill had been left to crumble when Rob and Tracey Beaton moved in.

By Cheryl Peebles

The Home of Hopcroft is in the 16th Century Merchants House near the end of Kirkcaldy prom. Image: Kenny Smith/DC Thomson.

How young Katie and Jack help Hopcroft family gift shop in Kirkcaldy thrive

Charlene and Greig involve children Katie, 9 , and Jack, 7, in running their gift and homeware shop and now they have their own spin-off venture.

By Cheryl Peebles

Fife twins Amelia and Celeste with mum Dionne, dad Duncan and brother Freddie.

Meet Fife’s first new twins of 2025 Amelia and Celeste at home in Kelty

Parents Dionne and Duncan are adapting to life as parents of two newborns and a toddler.

By Cheryl Peebles

Sophie's father Peter Gackowski, left, and designer Roland Proctor look through the late writer's old notebooks. Image: Mhairi Edwards/DC Thomson.

Dundee writer Sophie died at 29. Her parents finished what she started

Parents Peter and Petula Gackowski have turned their daughter's handwritten diaries into a published book.

By Rebecca Baird 4

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