Finale Celebrations - At A Glance Monday 30 November - St Andrew's Day Here is a list of Homecoming Scotland Finale Celebration Events taking place on November 30th, Scotland's national day: East Renfrewshire’s St Andrew’s Day Festival - Giffnock This new festival in East Renfrewshire will involve local musicians and internationally renowned Scottish bands performing music and rhythms which...
Finale Celebration Events - At a glance - Sunday 29 November List of Homecoming Finale Celebration Events taking place on Sunday November 29. Shindig 2009 - Glasgow Shindig 2009 extends the musical celebration launched by Homecoming Live - The Final Fling! into the heart of Glasgow with a weekend of free music and dance in George Square. To Bo’ness and Beyond - Falkirk The Hippodrome, Scotland's...
Finale Celebration Events - At a glance - Saturday 28 November Here is a list of Homecoming Scotland Finale Celebration Events taking place on Saturday November 28. Shindig 2009 - Glasgow Shindig 2009 extends the musical celebration launched by Homecoming Live - The Final Fling! into the heart of Glasgow with a weekend of free music and dance in George Square. To Bo’ness and Beyond - Falkirk...
Alcohol and Scotland . Irvine Welsh has got it right . I'll quote him in (as far as I can tell) full: "Scotland has a growing problem with alcohol abuse. More people, younger people and more women than ever before are at risk from being encouraged to over-consume this drug. This has an incalculable impact on the NHS and also on our social services through the pressure illness and harmful drinking...
HE DEFINED Scotland's generation of 1980s drugs excess. Now Irvine Welsh has set his sights on perhaps the nation's most widely available drug – cheap booze.
The Labour Government has an impressive record since 1997 of promoting constitutional reform. Yet, as pointed out by Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government at the University of Oxford, in his stimulating book The New British Constitution (Hart Publishing, £17.95), the enactment of the Human Rights Act 1998, the removal of most of the hereditary peers from the House of Lords, devolution in Scotland...
The West Of Scotland Inter County Leagues concluded last weekend with Ayrshire finishing third of the six teams in both the A League and the Youths League. The final youth match against Lanarkshire, scheduled for Brunston Castle, was called off due to the course being closed after the recent heavy rain, and with neither team being in contention, officials agreed not to replay the match. The A team...
Pùr, The Lassies Reply (MacDug Music, 2009) Bringing something different to this year's homecoming celebrations, The Lassies' Reply is a contemporary interpretation of a selection of songs by Robert Burns. What makes this recording special, if not unique, is that Burns' work is performed in a combination of Sots and Gaelic, with Roderick Macdonald translating Burns' original words in to the...
Posted on This is My Truth on 1 November Those with long memories will remember the Cabinet re-shuffle in the summer of 2003 as a complete mess. You may recall Peter Hain becoming Leader of the House of Commons(as well as Welsh Secretary), the post of Lord Chancellor abolished and the Wales Office subsumed - administratively at least - into a new Department of Constitutional Affairs. As someone reporting...
The Ayrshire A team had a fine 7 - 3 win over Stirlingshire at Prestwick St. Nicholas in the penultimate week of the 2009 West Of Scotland Inter County League championships. Despite losing the opening two ties, Ayrshire bounced back, taking the next six ties before sharing the final two ties on the course. Match details were :- George Robertson (Irvine Ravenspark) lost to Colin Mundie (Falkirk) by...
The Ayrshire youths side remain undefeated in this years West Of Scotland Inter County Leagues after a 5 - 5 draw against a strong Renfrewshire side on Saturday at Caprington. Match results were :- Scott Clark (Ayr Belleisle) lost to Andrew McLachlan (Bonnyington) by 3 & 2 Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie) lost to Michael Campbell (Renfrew) by 3 & 1 David Currie (Royal Troon) halved with...
Reuters' Tom Bergen takes a look at the Scottish city of Aberdeen, deeply implicated in the North Sea oil industry, and doing its best to prepare for a post-oil future. Offshore supply vessels resembling large, floating flat-backed trucks fill Victoria Dock, unable to find charters in a sign of the downturn in Britain's oil industry. With U.K. North Sea oil and gas production 44 per cent below its...
The Irish Herald reports that a 250 MW wave power plant is to be built on Ireland's west coast - Boost for wave power A joint Irish-Swedish multinational company is preparing to develop a wave energy project along the Atlantic coast which could generate enough energy to power Cork city by 2020. The new venture with Tonn Energy, which is backed by the Swedish multinational utility company Vattenfall...
The Ayrshire Youth side made it two wins from two in the West Of Scotland Inter County League on Saturday 17th October when they defeated the Glasgow Youths side by 8 - 2 at Ayr Belleisle. Ayrshire only lost one of the ten ties, with two others being halved, on thier way to victory. Match results were (Ayrshire names first) :- Scott Clark (Ayr Belleisle) beat Craig Haugh (Cathkin Braes) by 3 &...
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