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Header Slides

Today's header slides are a view of the centre of Haddington in East Lothian from the east; and the superbly located and extremely poignant Commando Memorial near Spean Bridge in Lochaber, close to where the commandos trained in WWII.

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In Focus

Lindores Abbey Distillery Some of the very best ideas seem, with hindsight, to be some of the most obvious ideas: the sort of ideas that leave you wondering why no-one ever thought of them before. The magnificent Lindores Abbey Distillery near Newburgh in Fife, which opened for business in the autumn of 2017, is the result of just such a stroke of inspiration. It was here that the first ever recorded production of whisky in Scotland took place in 1494: this is The Spiritual Home of Scotch Whisky. ( More ...)

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On This Day

2 August 1696: The death in Bruges of Captain Robert Campbell, the 5th Laird of Glen Lyon, and the officer commanding the government troops who massacred the MacDonalds of Glencoe on 13 February 1692.

2 August 1922: The death in Canada of Alexander Graham Bell, the scientist, inventor, and innovator best known for developing and patenting the telephone.

2 August 1938: The death of Captain Frank Barnwell, the aviation pioneer who, with his brother Harold, was responsible for the first powered flight in Scotland, and who later became a noted aircraft engineer with the Bristol Aeroplane Company.

Featured Book

Book Cover Bridge of Sighs by Ken Lussey (14 July 2026). A fast-paced contemporary murder mystery set in Edinburgh and northern Scotland. In a chilling echo of an event five decades earlier, a light aircraft takes off from a small Scottish airfield and doesn’t return. Meanwhile, someone is trying to prevent the development of the of the Sutherland Viking Haven near Kylesku. Who? And are they also damaging the vehicles of irresponsible users of the North Coast 500? Events take a very sinister turn when a body is found in a burned-out shop in Inverness. And then there’s another killing.
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Scottish Resources

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