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Header Slides

Today's header slides are a view of Elcho Castle near Perth, one of the most enjoyable castles to visit in Scotland; and of the 31ft high William Wallace Statue overlooking the Tweed Valley in the Scottish Borders.

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In Focus

Dun Troddan Broch Dun Troddan stands a little up the northern slope of the side of Gleann Beag, about two miles along a minor single track road which leaves the coast south of Glenelg. It is the second of the "Glenelg Brochs", twinned with Dun Telve, a third of a mile to its west. Dun Troddan is fine example of a broch, one of around five hundred to be found across mainly the north and west of Scotland. Brochs were built in the last centuries BC and the first centuries AD. ( More ...)

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On This Day

21 January 1840: The birth of the pioneering woman doctor and champion of medical education for women, Sophia Jex-Blake.

21 January 1890: Two 1,000ft long test trains, each comprising a locomotive and 50 wagons, and each weighing 900 tons, roll onto the newly-built Forth Bridge side by side from the south.

21 January 1919: The birth in Leith of Captain Eric Brown, who goes on to become a renowned naval aviator and test pilot and who holds a record unlikely ever to be beaten for the largest number of different aircraft types flown by a single person, 487. In later life he was widely acknowledged by others as "the greatest pilot ever".

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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