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Nadine Lee
Vikings Force Closure of Shetland Fire Station
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A Shetland fire station has been forced to close its doors as the result of a viking fire festival. Two fire fighters from the station on the Island of Bressay have refused to shave their beards ahe...
Topics: Vikings, Shetland, Up Helly Aa
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Rodger Moffet
Culloden Moor Housing Development and our Ancestral Her...
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As dusk fell over Culloden Moor on the 16th April 1746 the last major land battle to be fought on British soil had drawn to a conclusion. With close to 2,000 dead and wounded Jacobites the campaign...
Nadine Lee
Clan MacNicol Land Appeal
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The cliffs of Ben Chracaig looking north over the Sound of Raasay Donors are currently being sought to help preserve ancestral land home to Clan MacNicol/MacNeacail for at least 800 years. The Clan...
Topics: Ben Chracaig, Clan MacNeacail, Clan MacNicol, Clan Society, Donation, Isle of Skye, Scorrybreac
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Nadine Lee
Introducing the 38th Lord Lyon King of Arms
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Dr Joseph Morrow, 38th Lord Lyon King of Arms Hot off the Heraldry press, we're pleased to report that a new Lord Lyon King of Arms was appointed in Edinburgh last week. Dr Joseph Morrow, an advoca...
Topics: Court of Lord Lyon, David Sellar, Dr Joseph Morrow, Heraldry, Lord Lyon
Nadine Lee
Burns Night Prep - All Things Haggis
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This coming Saturday is perhaps the biggest day of the year for Scottish cooking - Burns Night is the day in which the Scots skill for bashing turnips and squeezing minced sheep offal into an animal'...
Topics: Robert Burns, Burns Night, Haggis
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