The Tick Alertcampaign group is warning anyone planning to camp in Scotland of thedangers of contracting Lymedisease from tick bites.To put things in perspective, according to the BBC,there were 285 cases of Lyme disease in Scotland in 2008 compared

This week's Monday Tip is topical one, how to remove ticks safely and easily and why you want to avoid the little blighters in the first place and minimise the risks of contracting Lyme disease.Ticks are tiny parasitical, blood-sucking hitch

The last week in May has been declared Tick Awareness Week, and it's a reminder to all walkers to take note of the little blighters that may or may not be clinging to your ankles at the end of a day in the hills.The week, running from 24th to 30th

Craghoppers tells us that its insect-repellent Nosquitoclothing is going down a storm in Holland thanks to an increasein the incidence of Lyme disease, carried by ticks, which are also aproblem in the UK.Apparentlya medical report shows that cases

Happy days - this week - 5-11 May, 2008 - is apparentlyTick Alert Week, a timely campaign intended to heighten publicawareness of ticks and the nasty diseases they spread both at homeand abroad.Ticks are most active in the summer months between

I don't see much point in re-writing a release that basically tells you what you need to know, which is that if you're involved in outdoor pursuits, you're more likely to contract Tick Borne Encephalitis (TBE), so I haven't. Check out the map above

Somewhere back in early 2000, a whole generation of decent butaffordable middle-market boots suddenly went missing leaving us witha choice of cheapo budget stuff and £100 plus premium boots,with not much left in the middle.Thegood news is that the middle-market void is gradually ...

We came across this Suprabeam V3r headtorch on the Outdoor Design Coalition stand at OTS - more about them soon - and it ticked all the boxes in our little whirring brain.It's an LED headtorch, but a rechargeable one with a Lithium Polymer cell

Challenge is that itseems to tick a lot of boxes in a way that suggests it's actuallybeen thought through. For a start, the impact is spread right acrossan entire month as well as across 219 Corbetts rather than a singlepeak.Conquer A What?By focussing

1500 metres and dislike wind which compromises their ability tofly. Oh, and some people really do taste nicer to midges than others...Meanwhile ticksare a growing menace with tick-born Lyme disease on the increase in theUK and reported cases rising from