Culture
Scotland’s New White Lady
Meet Victoria, the UK’s only female polar bear, who moves to her new home in the Highland Wildlife Park today. Victoria is travelling all the way from Aalborg Zoo in Denmark […]
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Tartan Day
Next weekend Arbroath will be celebrating its annual Tartan Day Festival with a range of events throughout Angus. The festival commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath on April 6, […]
Outdoor Scotland
Q-Aye! – The Scottish Facts You Need To Know | Part 2
Put yourself to the test with our list of 30 essential weird and wonderful Scotland facts. How many do you know? Penguin Parade! The penguins of Edinburgh Zoo […]
Outdoor Scotland
Q-Aye! – The Scottish Facts You Need To Know | Part 4
Put yourself to the test with our list of 30 essential weird and wonderful Scottish facts. How many do you know? Trains hold special meaning for author JK Rowling […]
Outdoor Scotland
Q-Aye! – The Scottish Facts You Need To Know | Part 6
Put yourself to the test with our list of 30 essential weird and wonderful Scotland facts. How many do you know? Oops! Charles Dickens’ mistake created a literacy world […]
Culture
Thrilling To Diver’s Call
If you didn’t know what that sound is, at first hearing you could be forgiven for thinking that it is like the speech of the land itself, like blood, like […]
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Rewilding Scotland
Rewilding is a buzzword I don’t much care for, and now that I think about it, so is “buzzword”. On the other hand, if it were proved that a buzzword like […]
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In Jamie’s Footsteps . . .
Hit American TV show Outlander has truly put the spotlight on Scotland – and now walking tours have been launched to explore the country that inspired the series. Based on […]
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Our Top 10 Most Scottish Films – Number 2
Whisky Galore A simple but hilarious 1949 tale of islanders trying to hide 50,000 cases of whisky – plundered from the SS Cabinet Minister after it was hit by a […]
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Our Top 10 Most Scottish Films – Number 3
Gregory’s Girl For a certain age group of Scots (ie mine!), this film perfectly encapsulated growing up in Scotland in the 1980s – although I don’t remember person-sized penguins wandering […]
