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Header Slides

Today's header slides are of Inveraray Castle, a magnificent chateau that would look as much at home in the Loire Valley as it does in Argyll; and the replica Spitfire in the Memorial Garden on the site of RAF Grangemouth.

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In Focus

Rum Rum is the largest of the Small Isles occupying the area between the Isle of Skye to the north and the Ardnamurchan peninsula to the south. It is shaped like a diamond and lies some 15 miles west of the mainland at Mallaig. It measures just over eight miles from east to west, and just under nine from north to south. It is the least fertile of the Small Isles and is defined by its largely mountainous terrain, which rises to a maximum height of 812m or 2663ft. ( More ...)

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On This Day

8 March 1702: King William III/II dies after a fall from his horse. He is succeeded by his sister in law, Queen Anne, who becomes the last Stuart monarch.

8 March 1899: The novelist Eric Linklater is born in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, before spending much of his childhood in Orkney.

8 March 1936: The comic strip Oor Wullie is published for the first time in the weekly Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post.

9 March 1776: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is published, becoming the best known work of economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith.

Featured Book

Book Cover Friend or Foe? by Ken Lussey (14 July 2025). A fast-paced thriller set largely in south-west Scotland during World War Two. It’s late June 1943. Bob and Monique Sutherland’s journey home from Malta is interrupted in London to hear Soviet claims of a German spy. Back in Scotland, they travel with a Military Intelligence 11 team to Galloway to track down a ghost who may already have uncovered vital military secrets. When two Soviet agents arrive in Galloway to help, Bob and Monique need to decide if the spy exists, or whether he is a Soviet invention intended to lure MI11 into danger.
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