ReviewScotland

The Bank House, Fort Augustus

FORT AUGUSTUS is a beautiful Highland town with scenery to die for and is a favourite for walkers and campers. Littered with many bed and breakfasts and a helpful local tourist office to guide you, there are many places to ...
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This week's Legend

Kenneth MacLeay, portrait painter

BORN in Oban in 1822 Kenneth MacLeay became an accomplished artist and was a founder member of the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.
He started painting for the Royal family in 1863 and became Queen Victoria's favourite painter, ...
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ObserveScotland

Enjoy our live video streaming webcam in the centre of Edinburgh.
The streaming webcam broadcasts a number of views overlooking Princes Street, the Mound, Edinburgh Castle and the famous Scott Monument. This webcam service was kindly provided by Camvista Webcams.

Change Scotland

Radiation scare stories? Aberdeen's more dangerous than Dalgety Bay

by Neil Craig
THE Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) promised to blight the little town of Dalgety Bay by designating part of its beach as "radioactive waste" by the end of March.   I first ran across this scare story in Feb ...

Article from Wednesday 16, May, 2012
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Radiation scare stories? Aberdeen's more dangerous than Dalgety Bay

by Neil Craig
THE Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) promised to blight the little town of Dalgety Bay by designating part of their beach as "radioactive waste" by the end of March.   I first ran across this scare story in Feb ...

Article from Wednesday 16, May, 2012
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And now the band will play… “believe it if you like!”

by Euan Wallace
AS SHE scurried around the afterdeck of the good ship Titanic, handing out fresh sheet music to her little band of spin doctors, Tory bandleader Davidson tapped her baton on her music stand and was heard to say, “now people, let’s ...

Article from Friday 11, May, 2012
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The Kirk's relationship with money

by Peter Smaill
FAMOUSLY in 1723 our very own Adam Smith was literally kidnapped by tinkers. In May 2012 he is due to be figuratively ambushed, but this time by the Kirk following the deliberations of their “special Commission on the Purposes of ...

Article from Saturday 21, April, 2012
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Our Leaders Have Gone Native

by Robert Durward
IF NECESSITY is the mother of invention then affluence must be the mother of decay. Our society is weakening and we have become lazy, abrogating responsibility for everyday matters to the political elite. In consequence, our politicians have ...

Article from Thursday 29, March, 2012
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The Scottish Referendum – Let’s Use It Properly

by Robert Durward
SCOTLAND IS in serious decline and has been so for some time. We have a wide range of problems, some chronic, but being a member of the United Kingdom is not one of them. However recent opinion polls ...

Article from Tuesday 6, March, 2012
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Five percent of something is better than twenty percent of nothing

by Robert Kilgour
One of the UK’s leading care home professionals has called on Chancellor George Osborne to cut the rate of VAT on refurbishment of health sector properties.  

Article from Thursday 16, February, 2012
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Citicorp report reveals unreality of independence

by Neil Craig
At the tail end of last year Alex Salmond was righteously annoyed about a report Citicorp wrote to advise their investors whether to  put their money into Scottish windfarms despite the fact that the report sticks rigidly to the investment opportunities ...

Article from Monday 9, January, 2012
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Who should defend the Union?

by Richard Cook
HERE IN Scotland, the Union is in the dock and being prosecuted by the most talented politician for many generations in the form of one Mr Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland, who was recently named as UK politician of ...

Article from Wednesday 21, December, 2011
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24 ways to end the recession

by Neil Craig
LAST WEEK'S Autumn Statement mini-budget announced that we aren't going to get rid of the deficit in this Parliament; that we are flatlining rather than growing; that the disastrous ever growing deficit the Conservatives, correctly, predicted Labour would produce has been produced by ...

Article from Sunday 4, December, 2011
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