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Header Slides

Today's header slides are of the busy harbour at Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire; and a view of remote Loch Arkaig in the Western Highlands, said to be the hiding place of Jacobite gold.

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In Focus

Kirriemuir Camera Obscura From the centre of Kirriemuir the land rises to the north, a rise that culminates at the summit of the Hill of Kirriemuir. A smart building close to the highest point on the hill was built as a cricket pavilion and camera obscura to serve the town's cricket ground, which occupied the flat(tish) top of the hill. The pavilion was paid for by Kirriemuir's most famous son, J.M. Barrie, the novelist and dramatist who made his fame and fortune by creating the character of Peter Pan. ( More ...)

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On This Day

29 April 1977: British Aerospace takes over Scottish Aviation.

30 April 1728: The Royal Bank of Scotland agrees to the world's first overdraft when it allows the merchant William Hog to take £1,000 more from his account than he has in it (well over £60,000 in today's money).

30 April 1746: Four days after Bonnie Prince Charlie leaves Arisaig two French naval ships carrying supplies and funds arrive in an effort to help him.

30 April 1940: The French destroyer Maillé Brézé suffers an accidental explosion and sinks in the River Clyde off Greenock with the loss of 25 of her crew.

Featured Book

Book Cover Hide and Seek by Ken Lussey (26 May 2023). A fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and more widely across Scotland during World War Two. It’s April 1943. Medical student Helen Erickson is followed from London to her aunt’s farm in Perthshire. What do her pursuers want? Meanwhile Monique Dubois is attending a secret meeting at Stirling Castle when an old adversary is murdered in a chilling echo of a dark episode in the castle’s history. Bob Sutherland and the MI11 team are called in and discover that almost everyone who knew the victim had a motive. Then Helen disappears.
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Scottish Resources

English Borders Index South Central Index Edinburgh Index Fife Index West Central Index Argyll Index Glasgow & Stirling Index Western Isles Index Western Isles Index West Highlands Index Argyll Index East Lothian Index Angus Index West Central Index South-West Index North Central Index Aberdeenshire Index Sutherland Index Caithness Index Orkney Index Shetland Index