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Header Slides

Today's header slides are of the the lovely village of Pennan, made famous by the film "Local Hero", on the north Aberdeenshire coast; and a view south along the island of Raasay, with Skye in the distance.

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In Focus

Leadhills Leadhills is not an imaginative name for a village located high in the Lowther Hills and founded on lead mining, but it is an apt one. Scotland's second highest village (after nearby Wanlockhead ) lies at a height of 395m or 1295ft and is reached from the east via the B7040 from Elvanfoot or the B797 from Abington. Lead was mined in Leadhills from the 1100s, and in about 1500 the village also had a successful gold mine. ( More ...)

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On This Day

12 July 1570: The Earl of Lennox, father of Lord Darnley, is appointed Regent with support from Queen Elizabeth.

12 July 1698: The ships of the first Darien expedition sail from Leith with 1,200 settlers, bound for Panama.

12 July 1834: The death in Hawaii of David Douglas, the botanist who gave his name to the Douglas Fir.

13 July 1174: William I is captured by the English at Alnwick while trying to retake Northumbria.

Featured Book

Book Cover Friend or Foe? by Ken Lussey (14 July 2025). A fast-paced thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. It’s late June 1943. Bob and Monique Sutherland’s journey home from Malta is interrupted in London to hear Soviet claims of a German spy. Back in Scotland, they travel with a Military Intelligence 11 team to Galloway to track down a ghost who may already have uncovered vital military secrets. When two Soviet agents arrive in Galloway to help, Bob and Monique need to decide if the spy exists, or whether he is a Soviet invention intended to lure MI11 into danger.
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Scottish Resources

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