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The King's Speech star Helena Bonham Carter met a real-life royal today as she was honoured with a CBE. We have to say how fantastic she looks, decked out in a Vivienne Westwood creation of strikin...

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Saw this at the supermarket, made me laugh so much had to share it. ...

This is an artists impression of what the site will look like when the centre is opened for the 700th anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn in 2014. The Heritage Centre is currently a rather dre...

We are just back from a trip to Iceland, don’t travel abroad much so was quite wide eyed with the relatively new experience. As the plane approached Iceland we could see hot springs spouting up from t...

Oops We've been having a good laugh in the office today at this news article: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/parents-reveal-fury-at-weetos-breakfast-1493701  ...

Left is The Life of Pi poster, and on the right the wreck of The Sovereign A Scottish Shipwreck makes a cameo appearance in The Ang Lee Blockbuster - Life of Pi. Surprised locals recognised the wre...

Sadly the Founder of The Clan Keith Society USA, INC., George L. Newberry, passed away this morning. George founded the USA Clan Keith Society with John Newberry at Grandfather Mountain. Without Geo...

Here at ScotClans we see that ordering clothes for Burns night always catches people by surprise and we get inundated with people desperately needing some tartan to wear to their Burns event. The dea...

Clan MacKinnon have a new lease of life - not only have they appointed a new Chieftan but have a shiny new website. This will serve as a great resource to the widespread MacKinnon Clan. They want ev...

THE world’s top haggis hurler Alan Pettigrew has announced he is to quit before his 29 year old record is broken. His world record was set in 1984 when he threw a 1lb 8oz haggis 180ft and 10in on t...

An elaborately decorated sandstone slab bearing markings of a member of the nobility – the carvings of the Calvary Cross and an ornate sword.   The skeleton of a medieval knight have been discovered ...

He’s led an army of 160 trained warriors through the gory battle scenes of Gladiator and the forests of Robin Hood. Is the father of five children. And heralded as one of Scotland’s most dedicated pr...

Medieval Scottish soldiers fought wearing bright yellow war shirts dyed in horse urine rather than the tartan plaid depicted in the film Braveheart, according  research. Historian Fergus Cannan stat...