Douglas MacQueen's blog Addressing Scotland's Parliament today, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: ... the enduring principle of that case, that decisions about Scotland are best taken by people who live here, is relevant to, demanded by, ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jan 5 2016 - 8:25pm - 0 comments
... MacQueen's blog King’s Seat Hillfort in Scotland is located to the north of Dunkeld (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Chailleann) ... a crucial part in going on to help forge the kingdom of Scotland. Archaeologists excavated the site of the hilltop fort near ...
Douglas MacQueen - Feb 17 2020 - 5:26pm
... hills on the island of Skye (An t-Eilean Sgitheanach) in Scotland. The headland rises to a height of over 98 feet (30 metres) above sea ... designated scheduled monuments by The Historic Environment Scotland (HES). The nearby Creag a' Chapaill Cave which shows evidence of ...
Douglas MacQueen - Nov 26 2017 - 3:08pm
... blog Music, dance and the Celtic tongue of Scotland are all on display at one of the world's premiere celebrations of ... The festival has been held each year since 1996 on Scotland's Isle of Lewis in the city of Stornoway. Multiple news reports ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jul 15 2014 - 9:12pm - 0 comments
... a bizarre and dangerous crossing across the Irish Sea from Scotland to the Isle of Man. Dale McLaughlan aged 28 from Irvine in North ... of Man being just 16 miles (26 km) south of Burrow Head in Scotland. The route that Dale McLaughlan took on 11th December, was from ...
Alastair Kneale - Dec 15 2020 - 9:21pm
... of the constituency vote in the history of devolution. In Scotland the SNP won 64 seats, the Conservatives 31, Labour 22, the Scottish ... won the election, those that support the continued union of Scotland within the United Kingdom lost. Much of the London based media ...
Douglas MacQueen - May 9 2021 - 3:12pm
... Gaelic: Ceann Phàdraig) is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Peterhead was founded by fishermen and became a significant fishing ... Since then it has made a remarkable journey from Scotland to Denmark, where it was found and a family sent it onwards on its ...
Douglas MacQueen - Nov 10 2017 - 7:37pm
... A rare flame shell reef off the west coast of Scotland has been 'devastated' by a scallop dredger. The Loch Carron reef near ... the shore. This has wrecked the reef and as reported by BBC Scotland local marine biologist Sue Scott said: "Divers have seen hundreds of ...
Douglas MacQueen - Apr 24 2017 - 11:29pm
... off our Celtic coasts. With this in mind and as part of Scotland's Year of Coasts and Waters, the Museum at Strathnaver (Scottish ... in seafaring tragedies along the north Sutherland coast of Scotland. In doing so Strathnaver Museum will be staging a digital exhibition ...
Douglas MacQueen - May 27 2020 - 4:14pm
... islands in the Inner Hebrides (Na h-Eileanan a-staigh) of Scotland. Now a new study from finds on Skye, published in the Scottish ... that were cousins of Brontosaurus and of T-Rex. They were in Scotland when the climate was was much warmer and dinosaurs were at the ...
Douglas MacQueen - Apr 3 2018 - 11:55am