HILLWALKERS AND deer stalkers have never mixed well, but a new digital service promises to help them avoid each other on Scotland’s hills.

‘Hillphones’ alerts ramblers and climbers about locations at which red deer stalking takes place through regularly updated phone messages from 1 July to 20 October, and this season it has been coupled with a new website testing alternative ways of providing the information for walkers. The website was officially launched this week by well-known Scots hiker and author Cameron McNeish, pictured here, up a hill, with a laptop