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Header Slides

Today's header slides are of the forbidding Blackness Castle on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth; and a view of Torrisdale Bay near Bettyhill on the north coast of Sutherland.

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In Focus

Haddington Haddington lies on the Great North Road, twenty miles east of Edinburgh. Though now bypassed by the A1, its position means it has long served as a gateway to Edinburgh and central Scotland. This has placed it in the path of the many marauding armies that have followed this route over the past thousand years. Haddington's origins lie far back in history and there was certainly a sizable settlement here by 1000. ( More ...)

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On This Day

19 March 1286: King Alexander III, aged 44, dies in a fall from his horse en route to be with his new bride Yolande de Dreux in Fife. Once Yolande's child miscarries or is stillborn, his granddaughter Margaret, "The Maid of Norway" becomes Queen of Scots at the age of three.

19 March 1813: The birth in Blantyre of David Livingstone, one of the most famous of the European missionaries and explorers who opened up the interior of Africa during the mid 1800s.

19 March 1996: The death of William Hutchinson (W.H.) Murray, one of the greats of Scottish mountaineering.

Featured Book

Book Cover A Tangled Web by Ken Lussey (15 November 2023). A fast-paced thriller set in northern Scotland. Callum Anderson returns to Sutherland to help local GP Jenny Mackay investigate the death of her husband. The authorities say it was suicide but she’s convinced he was murdered. It soon becomes clear that Iain Mackay lied to everyone who thought he loved them: especially his wife and his daughters. But that becomes the least of their problems when they come up against people who have already killed and would have no qualms about killing again.
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Scottish Resources

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