Monthly Archives: March 2025
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Posted: March 23, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Well, I’ve just entered a load of competitions in a national newspaper for free stays in hotels and pubs around the country, because let’s face it it’s a funny year. Belts are being tightened around the nation and I could do with a stay in the finest highland Hotel, but for free. It won’t be Andy Murray’s though, as I read today that his beautiful country house hotel lost a heap of money this last...
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Posted: March 19, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »It’s time to become a mum again for one of Scotland’s most famous birds, an osprey that has returned to its Highlands home after over wintering in sunny Africa. But she’s back and on time to Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve, near Dunkeld which is run by the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
She’s known to the scientists and bird experts as NC0, but I have my own nickname for her, Jessie, after a friend’s...
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Posted: March 16, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Are you old enough to remember those 1970s and 80s chimps that drank tea on the telly to advertise the beverage? Well I’m afraid I am and they were very funny at the time. But now the chimpanzees Ada Lott, real name Choppers, and Mr Shifter, real name Louis, have gone to the great tea party in the sky. They all enjoyed a long and happy retirement but research, published in a scientific journal and...
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Posted: March 11, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »I’ve previously chronicled the Great Scots who have done some much for science and history not just of the nation, but of all humankind. And now archaeologist Piers Litherland who is from Galashiels has uncovered the two tombs of an Egyptian pharaoh which is pretty big news in the world of Egyptology. The Scottish archaeologist announced the find of the century – the first discovery of a rock-cut...
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Posted: March 10, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Next year will be a big one for Glasgow as the rescheduled Commonwealth Games heads for Scotland’s second city. It was originally intended that a larger Games would be held in Victoria Australia, but they got cold feet when the true costs of running the games became apparent. So the Victorians are ponying up nearly £3m of what my mother would call “shut you up money” as they wash their hands of the...
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Posted: March 05, 2025Categories: James Pirie News
Read more »Well it’s Mother’s day this month, but many pocket books, wallets and purses are feeling the strain. Did you know for example that the train fares from Edinburgh to Glasgow are now so high that journeys can be more expensive than a plane flight to London and back! You can pop to Stansted from Edinburgh for less than thirty quid, but the train fare is a couple of pounds more. Or you could fly to...
