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Header Slides

Today's header slides are of Dundas Castle near Queensferry seen in winter sunlight; and a view along a residential street of a fishing boat in harbour at Peterhead in Aberdeenshire.

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In Focus

Skerray Between Tongue and Bettyhill the main A836 cuts across a broad promontory and remains some miles south of the north coast. A seven mile loop of minor road, single track of course, heads out to the coast, connecting together a series of small scattered crofting settlements. We've grouped them together in this feature, which uses Skerray as the name which seems most often to be used to cover this distinctive and fascinating area. ( More ...)

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On This Day

30 January 1647: The Scottish Covenanters march north and back to Scotland having handed Charles I over to the English in return for a payment of £200,000.

30 January 1649: Charles I is executed in London despite protests from the Scots.

30 January 1886: Betty Mouat sets sail from Grutness in Sheltand for Lerwick aboard the Columbine. She is washed ashore in Norway nine days later.

31 January 1716: The Jacobites abandon Perth in the face of reinforced government forces.

Featured Book

Book Cover Eyes Turned Skywards by Ken Lussey (12 August 2024). Wing Commander Robert Sutherland has left his days as a pre-war detective far behind him. Or so he thinks. On 25 August 1942 the Duke of Kent, brother of King George VI, is killed in northern Scotland in an unexplained air crash; a second crash soon after suggests a shared, possibly sinister, cause. Bob Sutherland is tasked with visiting the aircraft's base in Oban and the first crash site in Caithness to gather clues as to who might have had reason to sabotage one, or both, of the aircraft.
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Scottish Resources

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