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Header Slides

Today's header slides are of the harbour at Newhaven, on the south shore of the Firth of Forth near Leith; and a view of the triangular Caerlaverock Castle and its inner moat, south of Dumfries.

Clickable Map of Scotland

Clickable Map of Scotland

In Focus

The Borders Distillery The Borders Distillery was established in Hawick by the Three Stills Company and opened its doors to the public in May 2018, having begun production two months earlier. In doing so it became the first (legal) whisky distillery to operate in the Scottish Borders since 1837. According to press reports, the project cost £10m. That may seem a lot of money, but it's immediately obvious where the money was spent. It certainly has an incredibly impressive still hall. ( More ...)

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On This Day

28 September 1396: The Battle of the Inch, or the Battle of the Clans, is organised on Perth's North Inch by King Robert III in an effort to end a long standing feud between the Kay and Chattan Clans.

28 September 1582: The death in Edinburgh of George Buchanan, a historian and scholar who was persecuted for his Protestant views.

28 September 1928: Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.

29 September 1902: The death of William Topaz McGonagall, widely celebrated as the worst poet ever to have written in the English language.

Featured Book

Book Cover Bridge of Sighs by Ken Lussey (14 July 2026). A fast-paced contemporary murder mystery set in Edinburgh and northern Scotland. In a chilling echo of an event five decades earlier, a light aircraft takes off from a small Scottish airfield and doesn’t return. Meanwhile, someone is trying to prevent the development of the of the Sutherland Viking Haven near Kylesku. Who? And are they also damaging the vehicles of irresponsible users of the North Coast 500? Events take a very sinister turn when a body is found in a burned-out shop in Inverness. And then there’s another killing.
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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