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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

Stones of Livingston It was rather a surprise to stumble across a stone circle only a mile from where we've lived in Livingston for over two decades. It's been more of a surprise to be able to find out very little about the circle. An appeal on a local Facebook group unearthed little of substance. The circle appears to be called the Stones of Livingston, and appears to have arrived on the scene in the context of the development of Livingston as a new town from the 1960s onwards. ( More ...)

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On This Day

7 December 521: The birth in County Donegal in Ireland of the man who would go on to become Saint Columba.

7 December 1545: The birth at Temple Newsam in Yorkshire of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, who would become the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.

7 December 1566: Mary Queen of Scots leaves Craigmillar Castle after a group of her advisers agree the Craigmillar Bond, an arrangement for the disposal of Lord Darnley, who by now everyone including Mary knows to be thoroughly unsuitable as a husband.

7 December 1834: The death of Edward Irving, the famous preacher born in Annan.

Featured Book

Book Cover Thicker Than Water by Ken Lussey (15 September 2024). A compelling murder mystery set in northern Scotland. Callum Anderson and Jenny Mackay are spending Hogmanay at Sarclet Castle in Caithness when they are asked to investigate the brutal murder of a young woman at nearby Sarclet Broch in 1943, a woman whose ghost is believed to haunt the castle. What seems the coldest of cold cases is not the first murder of a young woman at the broch. Nor is it the last. On the day that Callum and Jenny arrive, there is a third fatal stabbing there.
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Scottish Resources

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