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Header Slides

Today's header slides are of the stunning beach on the west side of the island of Berneray in the Western Isles; and a view of the magnificent "pink palace" of Drumlanrig Castle, north of Dumfries.

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Castle Sinclair Girnigoe Castle Sinclair Girnigoe is a magnificently imposing edifice built on a fin of rock projecting almost parallel with the nearby shore, about a mile west of Noss Head and a little less than three miles (though further by road) north of Wick. The story of the castle is closely associated with the story of the Sinclair family, who became the Earls of Caithness and the Earls of Orkney and had estates and castles as far afield as Kirkwall in Orkney and Roslin, south of Edinburgh. ( More ...)

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On This Day

5 November 1688: William of Orange lands at Brixham in south-west England with a huge army. He has come at the invitation of representatives of the English nobility and church. His wife Mary is James VII/II's daughter and until the birth of James Francis Edward was the heir to the throne.

5 November 1864: The birth of Margaret Macdonald, the artist whose work helped define "The Glasgow Style" and who married Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

5 November 1879: The death of James Clerk Maxwell, one of greatest scientists of any era.

Featured Book

Book Cover Bloody Orkney by Ken Lussey (29 June 2021). Bloody Orkney is a fast-paced thriller set in Scotland during World War Two. It’s November 1942. Bob Sutherland, Monique Dubois and the Military Intelligence 11 team fly in to review security in Orkney, home to one of the most important and most heavily defended naval anchorages in the world. But an unidentified body has been found. It becomes clear that powerful men have things they’d rather keep hidden and MI11’s arrival threatens the status quo. Then Bob stumbles over a ghost from his past and things get far too personal.
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