... was no longer sustainable. The National Trust for Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Urras Nàiseanta na h-Alba) owns the entire ... and information can be found on the National Trust for Scotland website . Now a visitor centre dedicated to the remote St Kilda ...
Douglas MacQueen - Feb 26 2020 - 5:40pm
... December 1542, Mary Stuart was the daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise. James V (10 April 1512 – 14 December 1542) was ... 19th June 1566 she gave birth to a son, James, at Edinburgh Castle, who would eventually become James VI of Scotland and James I of ...
Douglas MacQueen - Dec 14 2018 - 8:17pm - 0 comments
... thriller The Vanishing will open in cinemas around Scotland and other Celtic countries at the end of March, having already been released in the United States. Filmed in the south-west of Scotland and Firth of Clyde, the film was directed by Kristoffer Nyholm and ...
Douglas MacQueen - Mar 29 2019 - 1:30pm
... from Westminster (UK) at the moment is about how hopeless Scotland and the Scottish are and how it would not survive without its English masters. The attitude and vindictiveness towards Scotland is clearly seen by British Prime Minister David Cameron's covert ...
Alastair Kneale - Sep 15 2014 - 4:02pm - 0 comments
... death in 1560. It is then thought that Mary took the book to Scotland with her when she returned there in August 1561. Born in ... to the English throne. Mary was executed at Fotheringhay Castle on 8th February 1587 when Mary was aged 44. Mary was initially buried at ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jun 2 2020 - 8:06pm
... the Vikingar. This year's lecture concerns Viking women in Scotland by Dr Stephen Harrison of the University of Glasgow. There will also ... Scots and Norse. There had been Viking interventions into Scotland and the surrounding islands since the 8th century AD. The Northern ...
Douglas MacQueen - Aug 31 2018 - 2:14pm
... greater protection for mountain hares. Mountain hares are Scotland's only native hare, where they could have existed since the last ice ... end the indiscriminate mass slaughter of mountain hares on Scotland’s grouse moors. “These new protections come as a direct ...
Douglas MacQueen - Mar 1 2021 - 11:30pm
... in the Scottish newspaper the Daily Record , one of Scotland’s leading breast surgeon’s has said that only voting Yes to independence can save the National Health Service in Scotland. Dr Philippa Whitford said: “In five years, England will not have an ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jul 14 2014 - 12:29pm - 0 comments
... Natural Heritage, is the public body responsible for Scotland's natural heritage, especially its natural, genetic and scenic diversity. They have now issued a warning that Scotland's wildlife is increasingly at risk from non-native species. NatureScot ...
Douglas MacQueen - Sep 20 2020 - 4:48pm
... it comes to the range. In Malcom Spaven’s book Fortress Scotland he recorded 30 years ago in relation to the BUTEC facility: ... the remote island at enormous cost” (Source FORTRESS SCOTLAND ; Malcolm Spaven 1983 ISBN 0-86104-735-4) According to media ...
Myghal Map Serpren - Mar 4 2015 - 10:33pm - 0 comments