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Braveheart Impersonator Charged With Firearms Offences
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by Nadine Lee
Adam Watters – Braveheart Impersonator. Photo courtesy of Deadline News
A Braveheart impersonator has been charged with firearms offences after police received a complaint about “a man with a blue fac...
Topics:
braveheart, edinburgh, Jacobite, Police, William Wallace
- March 29, 2013 5:27 pm
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Shining in History - Five Scottish Heroines
by Nadine Lee
Upon the death of Scottish Doctor and Suffragist Elsie Inglis, Winston Churchill remarked that Inglis and her band of nurses would ‘shine in history’. From a Lady who raised rebel troops, to a seafari...
Topics:
'45 Rising, American Revolution, Anne MacKintosh, Ayrshire, benbecula, Betsy Miller, Black Agnes, Bonnie Princh Charlie, Dunbar Castle, Earl of Salisbury, edinburgh, Edward III, Elsie Inglis, Flora Macdonald, Jacobite, Rout of Moy, Saltcoats, Suffragette, World War One, Chattan, Farquharson, Inglis, MacDonald, MacDonald of Clanranald, MacKintosh
Council Weighs In On Bobby Rubbing
by Nadine Lee
Greyfriar's Bobby, Pre-op
Edinburgh's world famous pup Greyfriar's Bobby got a facelift earlier this week, following a successful Facebook campaign by Bobby enthusiasts. On Tuesday sculpture conser...
Edinburgh and Glasgow's Rivarly Began Over Bread
by Donald
It has been recently suggested that the centuries-long rivalry between Scotland's capital and Scotland's largest city all started over bread.
It seems to have begun in 1656 when the Glasgow town coun...
The White Lady of Corstorphine
by Donald
The Lords Forrester were a principal family in the Corstorphine area of Edinburgh. Their main home was Corstorphine Castle, a 14th century stronghold which, by the 18th century, was nothing but ruins,...
Topics:
edinburgh, Ghost, Scottish Hauntings
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