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Header Slides

Today's header slides are of beautiful Melrose Abbey, one of the four great abbeys of the Scottish Borders; and a view of Sandwood Bay in north-west Sutherland, in our view the most magnificent beach in the UK.

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In Focus

William Wallace Statue The William Wallace Statue stands a few hundred yards west of the B6356 on the east side of the Tweed Valley less than a mile north of Dryburgh Abbey. The path from the car park leads to an impressive edifice of red sandstone, comprising a 21ft tall figure standing on top of a 10ft high plinth. It was unveiled here on 22 September 1814, having been commissioned by David Stuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, and carved by John Smith of Darnick. ( More ...)

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On This Day

17 July 1537: Janet, Countess of Glamis, and the sister in law of James V's exiled stepfather, the Earl of Angus, is tried on charges including trying to poison the King. She is burned at the stake outside Edinburgh Castle and her - extremely rich - estate is forfeited to James V.

17 July 1695: The Bank of Scotland is established in Edinburgh.

17 July 1790: The death of Adam Smith, the hugely influential political economist and moral philosopher.

Featured Book

Book Cover Hide and Seek by Ken Lussey (26 May 2023). A fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and more widely across Scotland during World War Two. It’s April 1943. Medical student Helen Erickson is followed from London to her aunt’s farm in Perthshire. What do her pursuers want? Meanwhile Monique Dubois is attending a secret meeting at Stirling Castle when an old adversary is murdered in a chilling echo of a dark episode in the castle’s history. Bob Sutherland and the MI11 team are called in and discover that almost everyone who knew the victim had a motive. Then Helen disappears.
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Scottish Resources

English Borders Index South Central Index Edinburgh Index Fife Index West Central Index Argyll Index Glasgow & Stirling Index Western Isles Index Western Isles Index West Highlands Index Argyll Index East Lothian Index Angus Index West Central Index South-West Index North Central Index Aberdeenshire Index Sutherland Index Caithness Index Orkney Index Shetland Index