A Great Britain surfing event was postponed after female competitors - one of them a 15-year-old - were allegedly verbally abused by a group of surfers not involved in the competition. Semi-finals of ...

An online firestorm erupted last month when male surfers were accused of invading a women’s surf event in Scotland. Since then, one of the accused surfers has come out against the digital hatred aimed ...

Recently, videos of surfers riding the Scottish coast have offered a window on the world of a big wave craze, from Thurso to Fife to Portobello near central Edinburgh. Thurso, the northernmost town on ...

Fancy spending some time on the waves? Head to the north coast. Scotland is rightly considered one of the top countries in the world for outdoor sports, and now it seems even one of the more unlikely ...

A beach in which attracts riders from across the world has been named as one of the best surfing spots globally. The surfs off Thurso are so legendary that people are willing to make the trip to what ...

As Scottish Surfing, prepares to celebrate its half-century at the Scottish National Surfing Championships in Thurso, Roger Cox looks back at a time when it seemed as if it might be curtains for the ...

In case you haven't been paying attention, things are changing in the world of surf contests. Back in 2000, the O'Neill Deep Jungle Open saw some of the world's best surfers charge the hollow rights ...

CONDITIONS: Friggen cold -- this is Scotland after all. But despite the chill, there were plenty of super-contestable three-to-five foot, glassy rights gracing Thruso East. "I knew it was a good wave ...

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If there’re two things Scotland’s got loads of, it’s wind, and coastlines. And when you combine them with easily accessible, long beaches and a bunch of dedicated local surfers, ...

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