A view on Scottish Horse Racing (Free subscription) | yesterday
KELSO – Friday November 20th Going – Heavy (Soft in places) Given the horrendous weather that struck Cumbria and Southern Scotland in the preceding 24 hours it was a bit of a surprise that this meeting took place. The River Tweed had flood warnings and I’d pretty well expected this meeting would get called off. It’s testament to the drainage at the course that the meeting went...
Conversations with POD (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Farlkris by Kelsey Drake Published by Matador 2009 ISBN: 978-1848762640 Price £6.99 Genre: Children 9s-12s What is your book about? It's about an incredible danger that threatens Musselburgh in East Lothian in Scotland. There’s a posionous chemical entering the sewers and it’s giving off a toxin as it mixes with the waste water and enteres the river and sea. And basically, everyone...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
St Andrews Scotland Sept 3 2009Sept. 3rd was to be our day of travel to St Andrews a 5 train ride which turned into a 10 ride. First there was problems with the wires ahead of the train next there was flooding near Dunbar and trains going north to Scotland were being turned back after some delay the passengers from earlier trains were transferred to ours and we made it past Dunbar. How
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
My country's resistance to nuclear energy is easy to understand, but its alternative is baffling Readers of London newspapers are used to blank spaces north of the border. Maps illustrating variations in house prices, healthcare provision, obesity rates, knife crime, tourist numbers – they show white beyond the diagonal that links a point north of Berwick to another point north of Carlisle....
My Trip Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
j4mes_bond25 asked: I’d be staying in Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland for 3-4 days this weekend. I really fancy seeing any well-known Whisky distiller in or around the region, which isn’t too far from the location I’d be staying in. I wondered if anyone around could possibly recommend me if there’s any Whisky distiller around the region [...]
Peerage News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
_. The engagement was announced 10 Nov 2009 between Joshua T.R. Lamb, son of Mr and Mrs Martin Lamb, of Stockleigh English, Devon, and Laura Sunniva Ward (b 1984), daughter of Maxwell Bernard Colin Ward (b 22 Aug 1949), of Humbie, East Lothian, scion of the Viscounts Bangor, by his wife Lady Sarah Ward (b 3 Oct 1954, nee Marsham), sister of the 8th Earl of Romney. --==--
Renfrewshire Ladies County Golf Association (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
RENFREWSHIRE (plus a few others) COURSE DATES Closing Date Championship RANFURLY CASTLE Wed/Thurs/Fri 14th - 16th April 9.00 a.m. – 1 p.m. Mon 22nd March Spring Meeting COWGLEN Thurs 6th May 9.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m Mon 19th April Autumn Meeting (Greensomes) ELDERSLIE Wed 1st September 9.30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Fri. 13th August Foursomes COCHRANE CASTLE Wed 28th April 9.00 a.m. –...
Diary of an Innkeeper (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The GTS (Golf Tourism Scotland) awards dinner was held at Turnberry . Well what a night, we were in the finals of the Best large golfing Hotel. Regrettably the North Berwick Marina won ( I think we should loose a room as if we did we would be in the best small golfing hotel category and have a chance of winning as we did in 2005/6) Turnberry is amazing, having worked there in the 70's as a trainee...
Phinnigan Beginnagain - Mezzle's Musings Part Deux (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Iron Age fort on the top of North Berwick Law. Laura on the Law. No wind, is this really Scotland by the sea? North Berwick beach as the sun goes down (at about 2pm) Seriously, about 3pm. Bit dull, why did I keep that one? Scoooootie, I will pinch your wee nosey. Bonnicals in Eburgerville Stu, Laura, the smiles? I'm not convinced. A really delicious meal in my now-favourite Eburgerian Turkish restaurant...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
THE East Lothian Winter Golf League is set for a radical shake-up next season after Musselburgh's application to join was given the green light.
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
West of Scotland's Eilidh Briggs, (Kilmacolm) whose older sister Megan won the Scottish women's amateur golf championship in May, has won the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association girls' order of me rit. She totalled 2,285pt, winning by over 500pt from Rachael Watton (Mortonhall) with Lesley Atkins (Minto) third with 1300. Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw) was fourth with 1120. Leading final points totals...
Unusual Historicals (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
By Blythe Gifford For most writers of historical romance, the "mother of all dynasties" is the English royal family. Many of us have a vague notion of the medieval segment of the story: the Plantagenets, Lancaster, York, and the War of the Roses, the Tudors, and finally, the Stuarts/Stewarts from Scotland after Queen Elizabeth died childless. The official family tree is hard to follow, but...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Longniddry Bents, East Lothian Threatening bergs of grey rose slowly over the west horizon and spread an even oppressive dullness across the landscape. Arthur's Seat, and all Edinburgh in fact, vanished intermittently into these caravans of cloud as they discharged a soft, warm rain over the whole of the Firth of Forth. Then it would stop, the blanket would rise, the horizon would clarify and recede...
Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Nick Griffin didn’t speak to many Scots when he visited Glasgow last week Two men in crisp suits are standing outside the stylish Corinthian bar, nodding in a string of men and women, chatting to some as old friends. The pair are not bouncers – not any more – but members of the British National Party. Those entering are not regulars of the bar, but activists who have come to hear...
Suitably Despairing (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
It's that time of year again, when the most polluting companies and sites in Scotland are unveiled to astonished gasps - astonished in that a 5 year old could probably have guessed the top four! But what's this at number five in the list? A combined heat and power plant? While combining heat and power makes a plant more effective, it doesn't mean that the plant suddenly doesn't pollute. The good news...
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