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2014: A year of Homecoming (if you like golf or athleti...
Bertie Vogts new head of Visit Scotland? noooooooooo!!!
Last year Stirling Council didn't so much drop the ball on the gathering, more like they picked it up on the halfway line, dribbled past thei...
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Bob Dylan Names Robert Burns as His Biggest Inspiration
Bob Dylan's music has inspired generations of music lovers. He has now named his own personal inspiration as our favorite Scots poet Robert Burns.
When asked which lyric or verse had the largest i...
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Robert Burns
EdinburghTwestival
Scotclans was at the Edinburgh Twitter Festival (Twestival)last night. We saw quite a few nice kilts, met some intersting people and raised lots of money for the charity 'Water'. We failed however, ...
Scots Slang - Nothing beats it!
Thanks to our twitter crowd we've been inspired to start collecting some of the our favorite examples of Scottish slang. Here's what we have so far:
Driech as in its a driech day ootside
yer erse is...
Scottish places mentioned in songs
A challenge has been set by our Twitter supporter BergFulton to find songs that mention specific sites/cities in Scotland. Bonus points if the band is not actually Scottish .... So here we are:
Loch...
Spring Has Sprung in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens
Today was a beautiful Spring day in Edinburgh. The ScotClans family had a day out at The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. Saw lots of wildlife; a fox, heron and of course squirrels.
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Botanics
What Did Happen to William Hare?
Applecross in the North West of Scotland has held the reputation of being a sanctuary. Among locals there has long been whispered rumours that William Hare, half of the infamous Burke and Hare duo, l...
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burke and hare, Scottish Myths
ScotClans Twittering Makes The News!
Today an article was published in The Edinburgh Evening News which looked at ever growing phenomenon of Twitter. Rodger from www.scotclans.com was interviewed to give his views on how ScotClans uses...
Scotland a Feeble Country! and Burns is Boring! - So Sa...
Academic David Starkey is now facing the wrath of the Celtic Fringe after last Thursday's appearance on BBC's Question Time. The Tudor lover dropped more than a few insults, dismissing the nations of ...
'Scotland's Schindler' to be Honoured for Sacrifice
A missionary from Dunscore near Dumfries has been described as "Scotland's Schindler" after she sacrificed her life at Auschwitz-Birkenauis to finally be honoured by the Prime Minister.
Jane Hainin...
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Haining, Scotland, World War II
The Thompson's Curse
There's a very old, very little known tale connected with the Thompson Clan. Four brothers and five sisters lived on a beautiful bay in the island of Arran at Machrie. The sisters do not feature in t...
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Clan Thompson, Legend, Thompson
The Beast of Duffus Caught on Camera
A couple and their 3 children were having a family day out at Duffus Castle on Easter Sunday when they caught sight a large panther-like black beast prowling out of the woodland. Craig and Angela f...
More than 25 Bodies Unearthed by Edinburgh Tram Works
The trams could be hit by yet another delay, but this time it was the grizzly discovery of at least 25 skeletons in one of the busy main roads in Leith. The remains are believed to date back to the 16...
Scottish Spider Cat
For Scottish daredevil cat Charlie, walls are no obstacle - he scales the two-storey wall of his owner's home to get back inside.
His gravity-defying antics have earned him the nickname "Spider-cat"...
Scotland's Oldest Osprey Hatches Chicks 45 and 46
This week saw Britain's oldest mother give birth at 66 a story trumped in the animal kingdom by a Scottish Osprey.
Scotland's oldest and most prolific osprey mother has hatched her 45th and 46th ch...
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