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Chillies add some spice to Forest Fringe openingAS EVERY performer knows, the show must go on.And for those who turned out for the start of the Forest Fringe festival, that meant even if you are overcome by the smell of burning chillies. Performances at the free venue in the young, hip and hippy Forest...

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Kilted skiers set CairnGorm 'world record'Money raised from the world record attempt will go to charityMore than 200 skiers and snowboarders have set a new "world record" for the most people in kilts going down a piste. Participants came down in a line from the Ptarmigan Top Station on Ca...

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I find myself deeply disturbed over recent events in Scotland. I've spent years extolling the virtues of my heritage country, displaying my kilts, toutng visits and vacations to that lovely land, and displaying a lot of it on my website . . . BUT I am incensed at the decision of a Scottish Minister to sh...

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Climate change causes sheep to shrink Milder winters are helping the island's smaller sheep to survive in a development that has confounded experts.03 July Climate change is causing a breed of sheep in St Kilda to shrink, according to scientists. Milder winters are helping the island's smaller s...

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Highland tourism industry booming Highland tourism businesses are bucking the financial downturn with visitor numbers up 15% on last year. The region has always been something of a magnet for tourists but this year the area seems to be drawing visitors from further afield than ever before. Operat...

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A small north-east pipe band have hit the wrong note with locals and been ordered to stop practising outdoors. The Newtonhill Pipe Band has rehearsed at the town's Primary School for 10 years. But the local council has now informed them they will be banned from the school if they continue to practise o...

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HIGHLANDER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The parklands at Scone Palace will be the venue this summer for the first ever Highlander World Championships, a spectacular two-day event which sees the fusion of history and traditional sport, echoing the war games of our ancestors.From 19th 20th July, 16 intern...

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Fact of the Day Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned, died on this day in 2003, aged six years, at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. Although cause of death was from a progressive lung disease commonly found in sheep, Dolly was also suffering from premature arthiritis, l...

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Abolition of bridge tolls30/01/2008 Tolls on both the Forth and Tay bridges will be abolished on February 11, 2008, it was announced today. Royal Assent has been given for the Bill and a Commencement Order signed today by Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson means that the Act can now come into for...

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Farmers and crofters to receive support payments23/01/2008 The path has today been cleared for farmers and crofters to receive £61 million in crucial agricultural payments. Following this morning's successful vote in Europe, Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (LFASS) funds could be paid out t...

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Victory for campaigners as fishing is banned in Arran's 'Garden of Eden' bayThe view across Lamlash Bay on the Isle of Arran, towards Holy Island. Fishing is to be banned in part of the bay following years of petitioningBy IAN JOHNSTON ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT FOR years they were dismissed as &quo...

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C.R. THE SCOTSMAN A £4bn bridge it is - now let's get on with itBy ALASTAIR DALTONA NEW Forth road bridge costing up to £4.2 billion will be Scotland's largest construction project for a generation, ministers said yesterday, as they finally approved the project, 15 years after a new crossing was fir...

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First Minister's Christmas CardNormally, there is not much media comment about the Christmas card being sent out by the Scottish First Minister. But with a new Scottish Nationalist government in power, the newspapers gave full coverage to Alex Salmond's choice of design. It has a traditional Chr...

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Society of William Wallace***********************************************MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN ELDERSLIE VILLAGE HALL, GLENPATRICK ROAD, ELDERSLIE ON TUESDAY 20th NOVEMBER 2007 AT 7.45 PM. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. PRESENT: Gordon Aitken, Karen Owens, Elizabeth Gosnay, Rich...

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Wed 12 Dec 2007 Seven weeks ago, the white-tailed sea eagle known as "bird N" took off from its perch and flew straight into the heart of a mystery. Claim and denial as a glorious giant of the skies vanishes from sightIAN JOHNSTON (ijohnston@scotsman.com) THE soft beat of its wings echoed a...

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Bagpipes a threat to the environment (and we're not talking noise pollution)MARC HORNE (mhorne@scotlandonsunday.com) THEY were once outlawed for being used as seditious weapons of war. Now, bagpipes have been blasted as an environmental menace. Over-intensive logging means that the African...

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No. 4 | 28th November 2007 English edition In this edition: 01 | Your invite to the London premiere on Thursday 6th December 02 | First dates announced outside Scotland 03 | More reviews! 04 | Film festivals and the Scottish BAFTAs 05 | Seachd on CD/iTunes (and DVD) in 2008 Official site: http://www.se...

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Dear ALL Thank you for registering to receive updates about Homecoming Scotland. Plans are now well underway to deliver a fantastic year of Homecoming for Scotland in 2009. Over the past few months the Homecoming Scotland team has been out and about covering the length and breadth of the country...

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INSIDE TRACKNovember 2007 - Final Edition Welcome to the final Inside Track! November 9 2007 was a momentous occasion for Scotland, when Glasgow won the right to host the Commonwealth Games in 2014. After years of passionate campaigning and almost 2 million pledges of support we crossed the finish...

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Campaign to Save Islands in DeclineRepresentatives from most of Scotland's 95 inhabited isles met on Mull this week to establish the "Scottish Islands Federation," to lobby for action on the problems facing these remote communities (where a total of around 100,000 people live). Ther...

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How people power can help to turn the tide IAN JOHNSTON ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT WHEN a group of people on Arran decided in the mid-1990s to start campaigning for a marine reserve in Lamlash Bay, they found "people looked at us as if we were mad". But in the intervening years, increasing n...

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Society of William Wallace********************************************************************MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN ELDERSLIE VILLAGE HALL, GLENPATRICK ROAD, ELDERSLIE ON TUESDAY 16th OCTOBER 2007 AT 7.45 PM. PRESENT: A. Millar, J. Millar, Gordon Aitken, Karen Owens, Peter M...

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Advertisement Mon 5 Nov 2007 Your country needs youand you need your country's flag 14 months, 11 games, 20 goals and it comes down to 11 vs 11 on 17/11. So, Italy are hoping to deny us qualification to Euro 2008. They might be the the best football team on the planet with flair, talent and style in abunda...

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Sat 10 Nov 2007 Partygoers in Glasgow show their jubilation yesterday as the decision is read out Picture: Donald MacLeod Scotland takes goldSTUART BATHGATE IN COLOMBO (sbathgate@scotsman.com) IT WAS lunchtime in Scotland, dusk here in Sri Lanka. As the sun dipped below the Indian Ocean, a singl...

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Fri 9 Nov 2007 Ian Johnston, right, hands the calls for action to Save our Seas to Richard Lochhead, the Scottish environment secretary, yesterday. Picture: Jane Barlow Minister pledges to listen to the voice of the nationIAN JOHNSTON THE sea is an extremely important resource for Scotland. Our...

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Scottish fishermen 'the greenest in Europe'IAN JOHNSTON (ijohnston@scotsman.com) SCOTLAND'S fishermen are the most environmentally friendly in Europe, according to both conservationists and Scotland's Environment Secretary. The fleet has voluntarily chosen to trial measures such as te...

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FACT OF THE DAY Manchester United Football Club welcomed their new boss today in 1986, a certain Mr Alex Ferguson. Known as a tough, uncompromising and successful manager with the Scottish team Aberdeen (who had won eight domestic and two European trophies during his time in charge), United's owne...

cagentry64 · cagentry64

I could wish for a modern day Wallace !!! Support for Independence at Ten Year Low? It is surprising that with the Scottish National Party in government in the Scottish Parliament and its leader, Alex Salmond, riding high in the popularity stakes, research published this week claimed that support...

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Minister to officials: Tell me about true state of our seasSCOTT MACNAB AND JOHN ROBERTSON A MASSIVE audit of Scotland's seas, to discover the health of fish, animal and plant stocks, has been ordered by the Scottish Government. The first State of Scotland's Seas report will play a central role in th...

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	Test photo post. (Preview)	Rabbie Downunder	1	1472	Dec 11, 2012 by Rabbie Downunder
	Scottish Snippets (Preview) Chillies add some spice to Forest Fringe openingAS EVERY performer knows, the show must go on.And for those who turned out for the start of the Forest Fringe festival, that meant even if you are overcome by the smell of burning chillies. Performances at the free venue in the young, hip and hippy Forest...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1454	Aug 11, 2010 by Rabbie Downunder
	KILTED SKIERS SET NEW RECORD (Preview) Kilted skiers set CairnGorm 'world record'Money raised from the world record attempt will go to charityMore than 200 skiers and snowboarders have set a new "world record" for the most people in kilts going down a piste. Participants came down in a line from the Ptarmigan Top Station on Ca...	Rabbie Downunder	1	1497	Aug 7, 2010 by abw1109
	Scottish Minister Decision (Preview) I find myself deeply disturbed over recent events in Scotland. I've spent years extolling the virtues of my heritage country, displaying my kilts, toutng visits and vacations to that lovely land, and displaying a lot of it on my website . . . BUT I am incensed at the decision of a Scottish Minister to sh...	cagentry64	0	1383	Aug 24, 2009 by cagentry64
	SHRINKING SHEEP ON ST KILDA (Preview) Climate change causes sheep to shrink Milder winters are helping the island's smaller sheep to survive in a development that has confounded experts.03 July Climate change is causing a breed of sheep in St Kilda to shrink, according to scientists. Milder winters are helping the island's smaller s...	Rabbie Downunder	2	1637	Jul 14, 2009 by andyb
	TOURISM ON THE UP IN THE HIGHLANDS (Preview) Highland tourism industry booming Highland tourism businesses are bucking the financial downturn with visitor numbers up 15% on last year. The region has always been something of a magnet for tourists but this year the area seems to be drawing visitors from further afield than ever before. Operat...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1467	Jul 10, 2009 by Rabbie Downunder
	PIPERS TOLD TO SHUT UP (Preview) A small north-east pipe band have hit the wrong note with locals and been ordered to stop practising outdoors. The Newtonhill Pipe Band has rehearsed at the town's Primary School for 10 years. But the local council has now informed them they will be banned from the school if they continue to practise o...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1390	Jul 10, 2009 by Rabbie Downunder
	SCONE PALACE NEWSLETTER (Preview) HIGHLANDER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The parklands at Scone Palace will be the venue this summer for the first ever Highlander World Championships, a spectacular two-day event which sees the fusion of history and traditional sport, echoing the war games of our ancestors.From 19th 20th July, 16 intern...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1553	May 20, 2008 by Rabbie Downunder
	IN EDINBURGH'S ROYAL MUSEUM ???????? (Preview) Fact of the Day Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned, died on this day in 2003, aged six years, at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. Although cause of death was from a progressive lung disease commonly found in sheep, Dolly was also suffering from premature arthiritis, l...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1345	Feb 14, 2008 by Rabbie Downunder
	BYE BYE BRIDGE TOLLS (Preview) Abolition of bridge tolls30/01/2008 Tolls on both the Forth and Tay bridges will be abolished on February 11, 2008, it was announced today. Royal Assent has been given for the Bill and a Commencement Order signed today by Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson means that the Act can now come into for...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1307	Jan 31, 2008 by Rabbie Downunder
	SUPPORT FOR CROFTERS (Preview) Farmers and crofters to receive support payments23/01/2008 The path has today been cleared for farmers and crofters to receive £61 million in crucial agricultural payments. Following this morning's successful vote in Europe, Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (LFASS) funds could be paid out t...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1269	Jan 29, 2008 by Rabbie Downunder
	FISHING BANNED IN ARRAN'S GARDEN OF EDEN BAY (Preview) Victory for campaigners as fishing is banned in Arran's 'Garden of Eden' bayThe view across Lamlash Bay on the Isle of Arran, towards Holy Island. Fishing is to be banned in part of the bay following years of petitioningBy IAN JOHNSTON ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT FOR years they were dismissed as &quo...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1758	Jan 23, 2008 by Rabbie Downunder
	NEW FORTH BRIDGE COSTS COULD EXCEDE 4 BILLION. (Preview) C.R. THE SCOTSMAN A £4bn bridge it is - now let's get on with itBy ALASTAIR DALTONA NEW Forth road bridge costing up to £4.2 billion will be Scotland's largest construction project for a generation, ministers said yesterday, as they finally approved the project, 15 years after a new crossing was fir...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1546	Dec 23, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	FIRST MINISTER'S CHRISTMAS CARD PHOTO (Preview) First Minister's Christmas CardNormally, there is not much media comment about the Christmas card being sent out by the Scottish First Minister. But with a new Scottish Nationalist government in power, the newspapers gave full coverage to Alex Salmond's choice of design. It has a traditional Chr...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1433	Dec 16, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	SOCIETY OF WILLIAM WALLACE NEWSLETTER (Preview) Society of William Wallace***********************************************MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN ELDERSLIE VILLAGE HALL, GLENPATRICK ROAD, ELDERSLIE ON TUESDAY 20th NOVEMBER 2007 AT 7.45 PM. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. PRESENT: Gordon Aitken, Karen Owens, Elizabeth Gosnay, Rich...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1418	Dec 13, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	SEA EAGLE RELEASE AND KILLING (Preview) Wed 12 Dec 2007 Seven weeks ago, the white-tailed sea eagle known as "bird N" took off from its perch and flew straight into the heart of a mystery. Claim and denial as a glorious giant of the skies vanishes from sightIAN JOHNSTON (ijohnston@scotsman.com) THE soft beat of its wings echoed a...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1751	Dec 12, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	FACT OF THE DAY PLANTING BAGPIPES TREES (Preview) Bagpipes a threat to the environment (and we're not talking noise pollution)MARC HORNE (mhorne@scotlandonsunday.com) THEY were once outlawed for being used as seditious weapons of war. Now, bagpipes have been blasted as an environmental menace. Over-intensive logging means that the African...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1475	Dec 4, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	SEACHD THE INACCESSABLE PINNACLE update (Preview) No. 4 \| 28th November 2007 English edition In this edition: 01 \| Your invite to the London premiere on Thursday 6th December 02 \| First dates announced outside Scotland 03 \| More reviews! 04 \| Film festivals and the Scottish BAFTAs 05 \| Seachd on CD/iTunes (and DVD) in 2008 Official site: http://www.se...	Rabbie Downunder	2	1799	Dec 3, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	SCOTLAND HOMECOMING 2009 UPDATE (Preview) Dear ALL Thank you for registering to receive updates about Homecoming Scotland. Plans are now well underway to deliver a fantastic year of Homecoming for Scotland in 2009. Over the past few months the Homecoming Scotland team has been out and about covering the length and breadth of the country...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1376	Nov 28, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	GLASGOW....2014 COMMONWEALTH GAMES UPDATE (Preview) INSIDE TRACKNovember 2007 - Final Edition Welcome to the final Inside Track! November 9 2007 was a momentous occasion for Scotland, when Glasgow won the right to host the Commonwealth Games in 2014. After years of passionate campaigning and almost 2 million pledges of support we crossed the finish...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1358	Nov 28, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	CAMPAIGN TO SAVE SCOTLANDS ISLANDS--PHOTO (Preview) Campaign to Save Islands in DeclineRepresentatives from most of Scotland's 95 inhabited isles met on Mull this week to establish the "Scottish Islands Federation," to lobby for action on the problems facing these remote communities (where a total of around 100,000 people live). Ther...	Rabbie Downunder	1	1457	Nov 20, 2007 by Aussied Pom
	ISLAND OF ARRAN GENERAL INFORMATION (Preview) How people power can help to turn the tide IAN JOHNSTON ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT WHEN a group of people on Arran decided in the mid-1990s to start campaigning for a marine reserve in Lamlash Bay, they found "people looked at us as if we were mad". But in the intervening years, increasing n...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1400	Nov 14, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	SOCIETY OF WILLIAM WALLACE NEWSLETTER OCTOBER (Preview) Society of William Wallace********************************************************************MINUTES OF MEETING HELD IN ELDERSLIE VILLAGE HALL, GLENPATRICK ROAD, ELDERSLIE ON TUESDAY 16th OCTOBER 2007 AT 7.45 PM. PRESENT: A. Millar, J. Millar, Gordon Aitken, Karen Owens, Peter M...	Rabbie Downunder	0	3944	Nov 13, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	SALTIRE if anyone gets a spare I will pay for it inc postage (Preview) Advertisement Mon 5 Nov 2007 Your country needs youand you need your country's flag 14 months, 11 games, 20 goals and it comes down to 11 vs 11 on 17/11. So, Italy are hoping to deny us qualification to Euro 2008. They might be the the best football team on the planet with flair, talent and style in abunda...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1349	Nov 11, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	GLASGOW GETS THE GAMES (Preview) Sat 10 Nov 2007 Partygoers in Glasgow show their jubilation yesterday as the decision is read out Picture: Donald MacLeod Scotland takes goldSTUART BATHGATE IN COLOMBO (sbathgate@scotsman.com) IT WAS lunchtime in Scotland, dusk here in Sri Lanka. As the sun dipped below the Indian Ocean, a singl...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1677	Nov 11, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	MORE ON SCOTLAND'S SEAS/FISHERIES/OIL ETC (Preview) Fri 9 Nov 2007 Ian Johnston, right, hands the calls for action to Save our Seas to Richard Lochhead, the Scottish environment secretary, yesterday. Picture: Jane Barlow Minister pledges to listen to the voice of the nationIAN JOHNSTON THE sea is an extremely important resource for Scotland. Our...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1298	Nov 10, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	SCOTTISH FISHERMEN LOOK TO PRESERVE FUTURE (PHOTOS) (Preview) Scottish fishermen 'the greenest in Europe'IAN JOHNSTON (ijohnston@scotsman.com) SCOTLAND'S fishermen are the most environmentally friendly in Europe, according to both conservationists and Scotland's Environment Secretary. The fleet has voluntarily chosen to trial measures such as te...	Rabbie Downunder	3	1257	Nov 9, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	FACT OF THE DAY ALEX FERGUSON (Preview) FACT OF THE DAY Manchester United Football Club welcomed their new boss today in 1986, a certain Mr Alex Ferguson. Known as a tough, uncompromising and successful manager with the Scottish team Aberdeen (who had won eight domestic and two European trophies during his time in charge), United's owne...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1179	Nov 6, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
	Disappointment by one Scottish descendant (Preview) *I could wish for a modern day Wallace !!!* Support for Independence at Ten Year Low? It is surprising that with the Scottish National Party in government in the Scottish Parliament and its leader, Alex Salmond, riding high in the popularity stakes, research published this week claimed that support...	cagentry64	2	1152	Nov 4, 2007 by andymacb
	SAVING OUR SEAS, A NEW SURVEY (Preview) Minister to officials: Tell me about true state of our seasSCOTT MACNAB AND JOHN ROBERTSON A MASSIVE audit of Scotland's seas, to discover the health of fish, animal and plant stocks, has been ordered by the Scottish Government. The first State of Scotland's Seas report will play a central role in th...	Rabbie Downunder	0	1172	Nov 4, 2007 by Rabbie Downunder
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