... Douglas MacQueen's blog Buccleuch, one of Scotland's biggest landowners, has been seeking to sell land in southern Scotland for some time. Now two bids to take moorland into community ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jun 15 2020 - 4:53pm
... teams that have qualified for the tournament are Wales and Scotland. There are twenty-four teams now battling through the group stages of ... on Saturday (12th June) with a 1-1 draw with Switzerland. Scotland play their first match against the Czech Republic this afternoon (14th ...
Alastair Kneale - Jun 14 2021 - 12:44pm
... Figures now released from the 2011 Census of Scotland have shown that a majority of the people of Scotland see themselves as Scottish only and not British. Responding to a ...
Douglas MacQueen - Sep 26 2013 - 9:20pm - 0 comments
... (SNH) has been announced for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. It is hoped that investing in the environment and culture of the ... bring significant economic benefits for rural communities. Scotland's Culture and Tourism Secretary Fiona Hyslop, welcomed the ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jan 14 2019 - 3:24pm
... (Scottish Gaelic: Locarbaidh) is a town in southwestern Scotland. The town has been in existence since the time of Viking influence in the period around 900AD. This part of southwest Scotland, including the ancient Gaelic Kingdom of Galloway, had increasingly ...
Douglas MacQueen - Sep 7 2018 - 4:43pm
... 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
... Just an update to say that the petition organised in Scotland by Michael Traill of Edinburgh and promoted on CHANGE.ORG ... plans to stay in the for one week. The vessel was in Scotland to support plans for a deposit and return scheme on drinks containers ...
Douglas MacQueen - Nov 18 2016 - 10:16pm - 0 comments
... Light of Age off the coast of Australia has been returned to Scotland. Diver Jim Anderson found it on a shipwreck in the 1970s. It is thought to be the oldest bottle of beer in Scotland. The bottle was on board the Light of Age which sank near Melbourne on ...
Douglas MacQueen - Nov 16 2018 - 10:59am
... 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
... an independent film and documentary filmmaker from Aberdeen, Scotland. In 2016 he released the film "Neither Wolf Nor Dog", which is an ... US in over ten years. He is now taking it around venues in Scotland ahead of the film's wider release in Britain. The film explores ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jul 15 2019 - 3:46pm