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Header Slides

Today's header slides are of Pollok House, which stands in Pollok Country Park just over three miles south-west of Glasgow city centre; and the mountains of Wester Ross from Charlestown on Loch Gairloch.

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In Focus

Castle of Old Wick The Castle of Old Wick, also known as the Old Man of Wick, stands on the top of a sheer-sided promontory of rock projecting out into the North Sea between deep geos that ensure it is totally inaccessible from three sides. To reach it you follow signs through the south side of Wick to a coastal parking area near South Head. It is then a gentle uphill stroll along a smooth grassy track running parallel with the shore across a field. ( More ...)

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On This Day

3 November 1640: King Charles I convenes the English Parliament to raise the funds to settle with the Scots as agreed at Ripon. This "Long Parliament" will to sit until 1653 and lead to Charles' loss of his throne and his head.

3 November 1832: The death near Largo in Fife of Sir John Leslie, the physicist and mathematician best remembered for his research into the properties of heat.

3 November 1904: The birth in Lochgelly in Fife of Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge, the socialist and Labour Party politician.

Featured Book

Book Cover The High Road by Ken Lussey (15 September 2023). A fast-paced thriller set mainly in central Scotland and the far north-west. Callum Anderson is in Scotland to scatter his father’s ashes when he’s asked by a cousin to look for her missing sister, Alexandra. With his life in London in tatters and suspended from duty by the Metropolitan Police, why not? It soon becomes clear that Alex is on the run from someone who sees Callum as a means of finding her and adding to a trail of bodies across two countries. Can Callum find Alex before his own hunter finds him?
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Scottish Resources

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