Nicola McAlley

Nicola is a reporter for STV News covering the Highlands, Islands and Moray. Her diverse role has included spending a week on St Kilda, being deposited onto a moving RNLI Lifeboat from a SeaKing helicopter and boarding a nuclear submarine moored off the coast of Skye.

Investigation launched after Highland wildfires ravage area size of 10,500 football pitches
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Investigation launched after wildfires ravaged area size of 10,500 football pitches

Watch aerial video showing extent of raging wildfires in Scottish Highlands
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Watch aerial video showing extent of raging wildfires in Scottish Highlands

Crews tackle wildfires for fourth night as massive area ravaged
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Crews tackle wildfires for fourth night as massive area ravaged

Firefighters continue to battle wildfires across Highlands and Moray for fourth day as roads remain closed
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Wildfires ravage area size of 10,500 football pitches as crews tackle blaze for fourth day

‘Doctors thought I had gallstones – it turned out to be a rare liver cancer’
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'Doctors thought I had gallstones - it turned out to be a rare liver cancer'

Veteran MSP Fergus Ewing hits out at SNP-Green coalition as he plans to stand as independent in 2026 elections
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'Ludicrous' policies kicked SNP independence dream into long grass, says Ewing

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PMDD: ‘It feels like most of your life isn’t within your control’
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PMDD: 'It feels like most of your life isn't within your control'

Edinburgh social care worker struck off after restraining vulnerable person and leaving them soaked in urine
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Social care worker restrained vulnerable person and left them soaked in urine

Motorcyclist dies at scene of crash which closed A97 in Aberdeenshire for ten hours
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Motorcyclist dies at scene of crash which closed road for ten hours

Former Citizens Theatre director Giles Havergal dies aged 87
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Former Citizens Theatre director Giles Havergal dies aged 87

Large mattress fire which broke out at Dunfermline landfill site extinguished
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Large mattress fire which broke out at landfill site extinguished

Pizza Hut announces closure of flagship ‘Four Corners’ restaurant in Glasgow
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Pizza Hut announces closure of flagship Scottish restaurant

Burial spaces in North Lanarkshire could be used up within nine years if action not taken, council hears
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Burial spaces 'could be used up within nine years if action not taken'

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Two NHS boards ordered to apologise for failings in cancer patient's care

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Scottish spaceport announces new chief after death of founder

Watch moment UK’s only venomous snake swims across stream in Scottish Highlands
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Watch moment adder swims across stream in Scottish Highlands

UK’s most remote inhabited island Fair Isle looking for new nurse to be only medic
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