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CROFT, obsolete. A little close adjoining to a dwelling-house, and enclosed for pasture or arable, or any particular use. Jacob's Law Dict.

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The only organisation dedicated to representing crofting is the Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF).

PATRICK KRAUSE

"We are of the clear view that the LFASS 2019 shortfall can and must be made good to prevent the risk of land abandonment and the loss of all the many rural development benefits that hinge on active farming and crofting in disadvantaged areas.

Union calls for Holyrood to plug the funding gap for farmers

The court heard the purpose of the house grants scheme is for "the retention of population in the crofting areas and the provision of assistance to crofters to enable them to build a house on their croft in order to be able to live on and work on the croft."

Judge in court over pounds 12k Hebrides grant; Victory on 'technicality'

The programme, to be shown next month, will reveal their part in the Clearances, which saw tenant crofting families forced off land to make way for animals.

TV David's clan were in Clearances; TELEVISION

As the deadline looms for them to declare more details of their "second jobs", newspaper reports claim members are making extra cash doing everything from advising drinks firms to crofting.

MPs 'raking it in from second jobs'

London, June 28 (ANI): A survey has uncovered the outside interests of dozens of MPs who hold down paid positions, ranging from legal and media work to crofting, and even grave digging.

UK MPs' earning a pile from their second jobs

Fifteen white-tailed sea eagles were released last month and William Fraser, chairman of Gairloch and Poolewe branch of the Crofting Foundation, said he believed the birds responsible for the killings.

Sea eagles kill lambs, claim

Among their topics are historical sites, a crofting township, pottery usage, the kelping industry, collapse and clearance, and emigration to North America.

From clan to clearance; history and archaeology on the Isle of Barra c.850-1850 AD

A Crofting Reform Bill (published in draft in March 2005) seeks to update, simplify and extend existing crofting legislation.

Planning reforms take centre stage: Greg Lloyd and Deborah Peel look at the key role that the land use planning system and its reform has in the Scottish Executive's legislative programme--through the Planning (Scotland) Bill and beyond

Under the 1976 Crofting Reform Act, crofters are entitled to 50 per cent of the development potential of the land.

Island at war over wind farm scheme

In 1991, Charles shocked locals by bringing his own Highgrove veg when he arrived to sample crofting life on the Isle of Berneray.

Don't forget the veg; HOW PRINCE CHARLES TAKES HIS OWN ORGANIC GREENS ON HOLIDAY... TO SCOTLAND

It is "a small, fertile crofting island, currently inhabited by around 130 people," says The National Trust for Scotland.

The Harmony of Faith and Reason: Today faith is often seen as inferior to reason, but in the wisdom of the Middle Ages, faith was bolstered by reason as they worked in concert to lead the believer to God. (Religion)