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Header Slides

Today's header slides are of Callendar House, for all the world looking like a French château dropped into the heart of Falkirk; and a view south along the main road on the island of Jura, towards the village of Craighouse.

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In Focus

Wigtown Wigtown lies close to the head of Wigtown Bay some six miles south of the main A75 at Newton Stewart. It is the gateway to The Machars, a broad peninsula projecting south into the Irish Sea, famous for being home to Whithorn, the cradle of Christianity in Scotland. But Wigtown is well worth visiting in its own right. In 1997 it launched itself as Scotland's National Book Town. Visitor numbers have increased dramatically since and there are now some 20 book-related businesses in Wigtown. ( More ...)

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On This Day

Friday, 13 October 1307: King Philip IV rounds up the Knights Templar in France as part of his campaign to gain control of the Order's vast wealth. In 1312 he persuades Pope Clement V to dissolve the Order, which in Scotland sees their assets, previously controlled from Temple, transferred to the Knights Hospitaller of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and administered from Torphichen Preceptory.

13 October 1713: The birth in Edinburgh of the renowned portrait painter, Allan Ramsay the Younger.

13 October 1862: 15 people are killed when two trains collided head on in a cutting a mile and a half north-east of Winchburgh.

Featured Book

Book Cover The High Road by Ken Lussey (15 September 2023). A fast-paced thriller set mainly in central Scotland and the far north-west. Callum Anderson is in Scotland to scatter his father’s ashes when he’s asked by a cousin to look for her missing sister, Alexandra. With his life in London in tatters and suspended from duty by the Metropolitan Police, why not? It soon becomes clear that Alex is on the run from someone who sees Callum as a means of finding her and adding to a trail of bodies across two countries. Can Callum find Alex before his own hunter finds him?
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