It's Me. (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Maybe I'm not the best film director in the land but I have a lot of fun with, http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx You can even add sound, so, sound on. Bothwell Castle is Scotland's finest 13th-century castle to be found at Uddingston. Craignethan dates back to 1530, 5 miles from Lanark. New Lanark, Scotland. A World Heritage site. The cotton mill owners...
Action 4 Equality Scotland (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The next hearing day for the ongoing South Lanarkshire Council cases has already been advertised - but here's timely reminder. Date - Monday 30 November 2009 Time - 10 am Venue - Employment Tribunal Offices, 215 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, G2 7TS The hearing is in public - so anyone can go along to listen in and see what's happening first hand. If you do attend as one of the South Lanarkshire claimants,...
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. –...
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Photos courtesy of Cal Carson Agency - Click to enlarge Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) pictured right and Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) pictured left are Nos 12 and 13 in the final European Golf Association women's amateur rankings of 2009. Lucie Andre of France is ranked No 1. Danielle McVeigh from Northern Ireland, winner of the British women's open amateur stroke-play championship at Royal...
Lord of the Wing (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
It's a conveyor belt of laughs that keeps on giving but, frankly, it has become boring, already. Once the gloating had wore off the semantics of who is running Rangers, the in's and out of the takeover, is the debt £30m or £125m, can Dave King get into this country, will Walter really walk away and how many more GIF's can you get on a subject is the topic that is engulfing Celtic Cyber...
Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
There seems little doubt that James VI of Scotland, the future James I of England believed in witchcraft; there seems equally little doubt that he used this belief with clear political intent. There were two things uppermost in James' mind in the early 1590s: to protect his Scottish inheritance against his cousin, the dangerously unstable and ambitious Francis Stewart, Earl of Bothwell, and to groom...
Renfrewshire Ladies County Golf Association (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
The SLGA has announced the following squads for their winter training programme and Megan Briggs, Eilidh Briggs, Alyson McKechin and Linsey Stevenson have all been selected to take part SLGA NATIONAL PERFORMANCE SQUAD Carly Booth (Comrie), Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm), Louise Kenney (Pitreavie), Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), Laura Murray (Alford), Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle), Jane Turner (Craigielaw),...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
It may boast the footballers’ enclaves of Bothwell and Uddingston, but Lanarkshire’s housing market has taken a kicking. The value of North Lanarkshire’s residential sales fell by £64m — or 61% — in the year to June, according to Registers of Scotland. South Lanarkshire’s sales receipts were down by £147m or 58%. A rash of estate agency closures confirmed...
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
LADIES GOLF UNON News Release 2010 GB & I CURTIS CUP SQUAD The following players have been named in the GB & I squad as part of the preparation for the 36th Curtis Cup match which will be played at Essex County Club, Massachusetts from June 11 to 13, 2010. Hannah BARWOOD (Knowle ) ENGLAND Age 19 Carly BOOTH (Comrie ) SCOTLAND Age 17 Amy BOULDEN (Maesdu) WALES Age 16 Gemma BRADBURY (Cottrell...
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Report by Colin Farquharson IRVINE WET BUT PLAYABLE FOR WOMEN’S HOME INTERNATIONALS Fingers crossed, there’s no danger that the Women’s Home Internationals will not tee off on time tomorrow morning at Irvine Golf Club even though there was more heavy rain at the Ayrshire venue today. There were big pools of water in the car park but not so many out on the course, thanks to the hard...
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
by ELSPETH BURNSIDE Buchanan Castle’s Kylie Walker is competing in her fourth Home Internationals at Irvine this week, and she’s hoping it is her last as she aims to turn professional at the end of the year. But she is determined to go out on a high note by helping Scotland win for a first time in 18 years. The 23-year-old is certainly confident that the amateur team can add to Catriona...
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Click to enlarge Irvine Bogside Golf Club 9th to 11th September 2009 Scotland, England, Ireland , Wales The Scottish team has 3 West of Scotland players namely Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm), Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) and Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) Please come and support Scotland’s top 8 lady amateur golfers. Any support would be greatly appreciated. Scotland Team: Carly Booth Megan Briggs...
MCLGA Static pages (Free subscription) | 05/09/2009
I have been asked by the very able manager, Claire Hargan , to remind you all of the Home Internationals. I posted an item about this last week but remember, it is being played next week, that's on Wednesday 9th, Thursday 10th and Friday 11th September and is being held at the Irvine (Bogside) Golf Club - on home soil! The Scots have not won this event since 1991 but the 2009 team includes Curtis Cup...
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
Click to enlarge The Women's Home Internationals at Irvine Golf Club, September 9 to 11 The following players will represent Scotland in the 2009 Home International Matches at Irvine Golf Club, Ayrshire from September 9 to 11: SCOTLAND Captain - Lesley Nicholson Manager - Claire Hargan Carly Booth (Comrie) Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) Louise Kenney (Pitreavie) Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) Laura Murray...
Ladies Club Golf News around the West of Scotland (Free subscription) | 22/08/2009
Pamela Pretswell with the Tauton Trophy (Courtesy of Colin Farquharson) Lanarkshire's Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) won the Taunton Trophy for having the lowest round of the 2009 Women's British Open Championship yesterday- a three-under-par 69 in the fourth round. She finished joint seventh. Pamela Pretswell and Louise Kenney with their trophies (Courtesy of Colin Farquharson) Louise Kenney from...
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