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Header Slides

Today's header slides are of St Andrews in Fife seen from the top of St Rule's Tower; and a view of the magnificent Ring of Brodgar on Orkney's West Mainland, part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site.

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In Focus

Clava Cairns Only a few of those who visit Culloden Battlefield realise that only a mile to the south-east lies a very different link with the past, every bit as evocative as Culloden, despite dating back to around 2000BC. Following the brown tourist signs to Clava Cairns takes you down some very minor roads and close to a spectacular railway viaduct en route to the car park for what are more fully known as the Prehistoric Burial Cairns of Balnuaran of Clava. ( More ...)

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On This Day

18 October 1541: The death of Margaret Tudor, mother of James V.

18 October 1801: Falling plasterwork during a service at the Laigh Kirk in Kilmarnock causes a stampede in which 29 people are killed.

19 October 1973: The boat belonging to internationally famous as country and western singer - and Shetland fisherman - Thomas Fraser runs aground and sinks.

19 October 1992: The Natural History Visitor Centre in Port Charlotte on Islay is opened by Magnus Magnusson.

Featured Book

Book Cover Thicker Than Water by Ken Lussey (15 September 2024). A compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland. Callum Anderson and Jenny Mackay are spending Hogmanay at Sarclet Castle in Caithness when they are asked to investigate the brutal murder of a young woman at nearby Sarclet Broch in 1943, a woman whose ghost is believed to haunt the castle. What seems the coldest of cold cases is not the first murder of a young woman at the broch. Nor is it the last. On the day that Callum and Jenny arrive, there is a third fatal stabbing there.
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Scottish Resources

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