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Dunollie Castle Spiders To Be Given Protection
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by Donald
Spiders at Dunollie Castle in Argyll & Bute, have been granted special protection from the workers during the castle’s £1.3 million restoration.
European cave spiders, also known as Meta menardi, n...
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MacDougall, Dunollie Castle, Castles, Restoration, Cumming, Nature, Spiders
- June 20, 2013 5:28 pm
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Queen Marks Anniversary in Scottish Style
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by Nadine Lee
Beside a bubbling brook in a remote part of the highlands isn’t usually where you would expect to come across a modern-day monarch. But a new portrait of Queen Elizabeth II has done just that – pictu...
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Balmoral, Crown Jewels, Elizabeth I, Gelder Burn, Macnab, Mary Queen of Scots, order of the thistle, Queen Elizabeth II, River Dee, Sir Henry Raeburn, Victoria
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An Unlikely Jacobite Hero
by Nadine Lee
A number of molehills have sprung up across the battlefield site at Culloden, much to the delight of a Jacobite supporters group. The Circle of Gentlemen – a Highland based Jacobite supporters socie...
Terrorising Owl at Large in Inverness
by Nadine Lee
Feathered Foe Remains on the Loose
Here's a strange case of life imitating art from Inverness, with news just in that rivals Hitchcock's 1963 horror The Birds:
A giant Eagle Owl is to blame for at...
Scotland the Place to Be in 2013
by Nadine Lee
Buachaille Etive Mor, featured in Skyfall
Around Edinburgh at the moment signs of the post-festive season are evident, and life is slowly returning to normal. Discarded, tired Christmas trees lie o...
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