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Header Slides

Today's header slides are a view of Bass Rock from the little known beach at Seacliff in East Lothian; and a close up of the carving on the Rodney Stone, a Pictish symbol stone standing near Brodie Castle in Moray.

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In Focus

Mellon Udrigle From the village of Laide on the A832 a single track road heads slightly west of north along the western shore of Gruinard Bay. This passes the tiny scattered settlement of Achgarve before heading slightly inland, then emerging at the coast again at Mellon Udrigle. Here you find the beach of Camas a'Charaig: a broad expanse of white sand sloping gently into a turquoise sea and offering mangificent distant views of An Teallach and the mountains of Sutherland. ( More ...)

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On This Day

28 March 1960: Nineteen firemen are killed in the Cheapside Street whisky bond fire in Glasgow, Britain's worst peacetime fire services disaster.

29 March 1298: William Wallace is titled "Guardian of Scotland", but still acts in the name of King John Balliol

29 March 1958: The death at Hutton Castle in the Scottish Borders of Sir William Burrell, the shipping magnate who gifted his huge collection of art, the Burrell Collection, to Glasgow City Council.

29 March 2002: Longannet coal mine in Fife, the last deep coal mine in Scotland, closes following serious flooding, bringing to an end centuries of deep coal mining in the country.

Featured Book

Book Cover A Tangled Web by Ken Lussey (15 November 2023). A fast-paced thriller set in northern Scotland. Callum Anderson returns to Sutherland to help local GP Jenny Mackay investigate the death of her husband. The authorities say it was suicide but she’s convinced he was murdered. It soon becomes clear that Iain Mackay lied to everyone who thought he loved them: especially his wife and his daughters. But that becomes the least of their problems when they come up against people who have already killed and would have no qualms about killing again.
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Scottish Resources

English Borders Index South Central Index Edinburgh Index Fife Index West Central Index Argyll Index Glasgow & Stirling Index Western Isles Index Western Isles Index West Highlands Index Argyll Index East Lothian Index Angus Index West Central Index South-West Index North Central Index Aberdeenshire Index Sutherland Index Caithness Index Orkney Index Shetland Index