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Tom Weir | Shepherd of Artney
In June 1977, Tom Weir wrote this column for us on his friend, Pat Macnab, a traditional shepherd. It is incredible to think of how much has changed in this […]
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Tom Weir | Over the Girth Gate
This week saw the official opening of the Borders Railway, which has been closed for 46 years. How fitting, therefore, that our article from Tom Weir’s 1977 archives concerns the […]
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2015 in 2015
Nick Ray has just completed a 2015 mile journey around Scotland’s coast to raise funds for the Royal National Lifeboat Association Nick set off from Kippford in Dumfries & Galloway […]
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Tom Weir | A Cliff-top Walk, The Helicopter Threat and A Village with a Past
In the spring of 1977 Tom Weir was mesmerised by the changing seasons, and was determined to do his bit to preserve the natural, unspoiled beauty of his country… Every […]
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The Big Yin’s Special Recognition
At the 2015 National Television Awards on Wednesday, Jan 20, Billy Connolly was awarded with the Special Recognition award for over 50 years in entertainment. Billy accepted his award graciously […]
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Tom Weir | Murray’s Way
TOM WEIR went to Lochgoilhead in the spring of 1977 to talk to the mountaineering legend W. H. MURRAY about his life of climbing and writing “… in the […]
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Tom Weir | Days I Won’t Forget
Winter arrived in a gale of blattering rain from the south, dying out overnight and transforming the roads to ribbons of black ice by morning. Fog lay over the land, […]
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Behind Still Game
We caught up with the men behind Scotland’s favourite and funniest pensioners, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill The live version of Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill’s incredibly popular BBC […]
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Catching up with Ed Byrne
His show at the Edinburgh Fringe this month is part of Ed Byrne’s long term love affair with Scotland “I would love to live in Scotland,” he says, “but my […]
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Tom Weir | In Rob Roy Country
Tom Weir visited the reservoir that supplied Glasgow with 90,000,000 gallons of water a day in 1976, and opened a Wayfaring Course set in this area at the Queen Elizabeth […]
