Professor’s joy as truffle is grown on Isle of Bute in ‘landmark’ moment

Honorary professor Paul Thomas with truffle dog Rue (University of Stirling/Paul W Thomas/PA) -

A black truffle has been cultivated on a Scottish isle in what is thought to be a  first for a UK island.

Professor Paul W Thomas, an honorary professor at the University of Stirling, discovered the truffle on the Isle of Bute in the summer, five years after planting a small hedge of hazel trees inoculated with truffle fungus in his garden.