Meghan Markle a ‘direct descendant’ of Robert the Bruce
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The future bride of Prince Harry is a direct descendant of Scotland’s most famous king, it has been claimed.
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Meghan Markle a ‘direct descendent’ of Robert the Bruce
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The future bride of Prince Harry is a direct descendant of Scotland’s most famous king, it has been claimed.
In pictures: 10 of the most bizarrely named Scottish foods
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Much like the towns and cities that are dotted around Scotland, the traditional dishes that are part of the national cuisine are varied, unique and often have strange names.
Frankie Boyle confirms run of Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows
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Frankie Boyle has become one of the biggest name comics to confirm a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Toast the art of Scotland’s craft gin and whisky distillers
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When you think of Scottish distilleries, it’s the copper stills and oak barrels of a Highland or Island business that probably jump to mind. However, today there are almost as many shiny new gin – vodka or rum – stills across Scotland.
Invergordon welcomes passengers to the north
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Invergordon has become a key part of Scotland’s tourist industry. Last year it welcomed more than 149,000 visitors from 93 cruise ships, making the Cromarty port a real gateway to the Highlands.
Get a taste for seafood on Scotland’s shores
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It is sometimes easy to forget that food tourism is big business: our distilleries, farmers’ markets, restaurants, pubs and tea rooms are responsible for encouraging visitors to our shores.
BBC targets 50/50 gender split in one year
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The BBC has declared it is working to guarantee an equal number of male and female experts across its programmes by April next year.
Broadband woes hit over half of all UK households
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More than half of British households have experienced a problem with their broadband service in the past year, a study has found.
Scotland’s beauty spots to feature in live-action Pokemon movie
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A series of Scotland’s most idyllic beauty spots will feature in the first live-action Pokemon film in a major boon for the country’s tourism sector.
Kirsty Gunn: Government keeps thanking me for advice I’ve not given
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I received what I think of as a very chilling email this week. It came from the Scottish Government, from a department there called “Culture Strategy” and it thanked me for all my involvement on “the development...
‘£3 million scandal’ of lost First World War airfield
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An airfield and gunnery school at Loch Doon in Ayrshire became one of the most “striking wastes of public money” on record with the complex quietly demolished, given the ground was too boggy for planes to land.
Brian Ferguson: Balancing act over ancient and modern faces of Edinburgh
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The Edinburgh World Heritage Management Plan has the potential to transform much of how the historic heart of the city looks and feels – if it all comes off, writes Brian Ferguson.
Dec’s solo Saturday Night Takeaway watched by 7.7million viewers
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Declan Donnelly’s solo Saturday Night Takeaway was watched by 7.7 million viewers with a 39 per cent share of the audience, ITV has said.
Insight: Civil rights 50 years after Martin Luther King
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US lawyer James Wilson was still a child when he sat near an open field in the heart of the Alabama Black Belt and watched an effigy burn on a fiery cross. “The Ku Klux Klan used to meet by the river down from our house in Montgomery,” he says in a gravelly southern drawl.
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