... Michael Yellowlees from from Birnam in Perthshire, Scotland, along with his Alaskan husky Luna, have trekked the width of Canada ... the ancient Caledonian Forest, which once stretched across Scotland. Talking of his journey Michael said: "I've been marched ...
Douglas MacQueen - Dec 13 2021 - 10:16am
... election to Holyrood (Scottish Parliament), is to be made a Scotland Office minister. Malcolm Offord is to be made a minister in the Scotland Office by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. This is despite him ...
Douglas MacQueen - Oct 1 2021 - 4:45pm
... and the Jacobites exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The targe, is an elaborately decorated small shield with ... as Bonnie Prince Charlie was the grandson of James VII of Scotland and had led the second Jacobite Uprising of 1745 to overthrow King ...
Douglas MacQueen - Nov 5 2016 - 12:53pm - 0 comments
... television programmes which have either been filmed in Scotland or have Scottish links. It coincides with the 130th anniversary of the ... charge in attractions and VisitScotland iCentres throughout Scotland and contains details of more than 60 television programmes. ...
Douglas MacQueen - Aug 29 2018 - 12:55pm
... 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
... Gaelic: Toirbheartan) an area in the north west Highlands of Scotland is pointing to evidence of a possible previously unknown ice age ... icebergs to the bottom of lakes. As reported in BBC Scotland Professor Hartley said: "In Earth's middle ages it is thought that not ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jan 9 2020 - 9:47pm
... Celtic world, there are many Scandinavian influences. Within Scotland, Ireland and Isle of Man, the Vikings influences were mainly ... that existed during that period. The Vikings in Scotland and Isle of Man The Viking interventions began in the 8th century ...
Alastair Kneale - Jul 31 2021 - 11:05am - 0 comments
... the status of the Gaelic language as an official language of Scotland commanding equal respect to the English language, including the ... the status of the Gaelic language as an official language of Scotland; (3) the introduction of a national Gaelic language plan to promote ...
Emmett McIntyre - Feb 22 2014 - 11:56pm - 0 comments