From 1869, a railway viaduct — then Europe’s longest — ran across the Solway Firth from Bowness to near Annan, for transporting iron ore to the Lanarkshire smelters. Damaged by ice-flows in 1881, it ...

In the firth, Robin Rigg sandbank, through which the real-life border between Scotland and England runs, is where a young woman’s body is washed up, kicking off the hunt for the killer and a ...

MATTING made of residue from potatoes imported from the Netherlands is being used in a trial aimed at reducing coastal erosion in the Solway Firth ... climate change and nature in its area.

It rises in East Ayrshire, flowing largely through Dumfries and Galloway before entering the Solway Firth at Dumfries. The upper reaches of the river flow through an area of open cast coal mines.