Monthly Archives: June 2015
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Scotland has launched an attack on the plans for a large scale wind farm at Ballantrae. Saying rare birds of prey could be forced out of South Ayrshire by these wind turbines.
Hen Harriers Harried?
The local authority granted permission to Scottish Power Renewables for a 14-turbine windfarm near Ballantrae, but the RSPB claim that the hen harrier...
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Are You a Culture Vulture?
A touring exhibition from the V&A Dundee museum is set to bring culture to the whole of Scotland. Design in Motion, a custom-built gallery on a bus, has visited the Scottish Parliament. It aims to provide a "snapshot of the creative riches" that the new museum will offer when it opens in 2018.
The exhibition began its 17-week journey around the country in February 27 and...
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Scottish Gold Revealed
A 20-carat nugget weighing around 18grams and was sifted from a river in Dumfriesshire and then almost throw away. The nugget said to be the biggest in Scotland in the past 70 years was almost thrown away by the man who found it.
A Canadian man learning how to gold-pan found the precious metal, worth around £10,000..
The man known as “John” from British Columbia, was learning...
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102 Year Old Breaks the Record
Have you ever noticed how anybody over 60 and still able to walk is called sprightly? Well perhaps this time the man in question deserves the description. As “sprightly” Dan Clement is set to become the world’s oldest best man. Dan will “do the honours” for groom Sandy Little, 73, and 69-year-old Susan Davey.
Dan is from Bridge of Dee in Dumfries and is 102 years old...
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“A robin redbreast in a cage / puts all Heaven in a rage.” William Blake
Campaign Sees New National Bird
The choice of National Bird for Britain has gone to our old friend the Robin. A nationwide vote saw more than 200,000 people choose the robin as Britain's national bird after it swooped away with 34 . It was by far the most popular bird with 34 per cent of the vote.
The Robin is well known for its...
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It was only last week that Met Office forecaster Dan Williams was able to tell us that Scotland would have temperatures well above average. With one day seeing temperatures soaring around the 23C or 24C in the East. Well that didn’t last.
It’s Andy Murray Time, So Get out Those Cucumber Sandwiches
Yes as chances have it, just as we have Andy Murray back in the country fresh from his great semi-final...
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An exhibition this week opened in Buckingham Palace featuring portraits of two Scottish soldiers who attacked the beaches of France as part of the D-Day landings in 1944. The veterans had their portraits painted as they are now and are alongside images of the landings and as they were in their youth.
A D-Day Exhibition
Called “The Last of the Tide”, the images commemorate the invasion of German-occupied...
