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Clan MacKinnon gets a new Chieftan
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...
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MacKinnon
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Burns Night Emergencies - What we have in stock
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...
Founder of Clan Keith Society Dies
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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...
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Keith
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Life of Pi poster shows Scottish Shipwreck
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...
Scottish Parents upset at Weetos breakfast cereal
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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
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Why is Edinburgh Airport so un-Scottish?
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...
New Bannockburn Heritage Centre for 2014
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...
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Bannockburn, battles
You can slice us but you'll never take our flavour!!!
Saw this at the supermarket, made me laugh so much had to share it.
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Helena Bonham Carter wears tartan for her CBE
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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Tartan
St Brigid's Cross on Arran
While traveling around Arran we visited Lamlash, a very pretty seaside village on the east coast of the island. Outside their parish church stands an unusual carved cross. The weathered carving sho...
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Arran
Murder on Goatfell, Arran
In 1889 the body of Edwin Robert Rose was discovered on Arran's famous mountain Goatfell. The corpse had been hidden beside a boulder, behind a wall of rocks. His head had been smashed in.
Edwin ...
Giants Grave on Arran
A very grey rainy day, we thought we'd take a walk up to The Giants Grave, a Neolithic burial chamber on the hill above Whiting Bay.
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The man who escaped a hanging, a tale from Arran
While camping on the Isle of Arran we visited Brodick Castle which is on the east coast of the island. A castle owned mainly by the Hamiltons, it was used recently as a hunting lodge. In front of th...