Back in the Day: Treatment of our animals must reflect the values of an independent nation

Back in the Day

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Yours for Scotland.

Treatment of our animals must reflect the values of an independent nation

A SCOTLAND that wholly reflects the values of the Scottish people is certainly one of the main points of desire for independence.

Jordi Solé has served as an MEP for the Republican Left of Catalonia since 2017.

Jordi Solé MEP: The hope you will rejoin the EU is shared by a majority of colleagues

THREE years after Brexit, I keep thinking that the best option for Scotland, for the United Kingdom, and for the EU as a whole, would have been to continue within the European Union. And as the chair of the European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament, that is what I have always advocated in this House.

The castle is said to have inspired Walt Disney’s Cinderella Castle

Major project set to protect and future-proof the famous pink exterior of castle

A MAJOR conservation project is about to get under way to protect and future-proof the famous pink exterior of Craigievar Castle in Aberdeenshire against damage from rain and wider climate change.

We are not even certain about her own name for, maddeningly, in her only publication she calls herself “Mrs Fulhame”.

The mysterious case of Elizabeth Fulhame, a chemist and true pioneer of science

ONE of the joys of writing this column every week is that every so often I get to investigate a historical mystery and report on it to you, and today is one such occasion.

Pictured at the Memorial: (L-R) Bart Delabastita, Jo Delabastita, Stirling Provost Douglas Dodds, Dirk Delabastita, Lord Lieutenant of Stirling and Falkirk Alan Simpson, Paul Delabastita.

Memorial marks Belgian fighter pilot who crash-landed a Spitfire during WW2

A MEMORIAL has been unveiled to mark the 80th anniversary of the death of a Belgian fighter pilot who crash-landed a Spitfire near Stirling during the Second World War.

Bronze Age horns, such as those held in Belfast, are magnificent to look at and wonderful to play and (Right) a Gerald of Wales portrayal of a man with a horn from c1188

Bronze Age economics: You spend money on the things that matter most to you - music

CONTINUING his series on Scotland’s early music, John Purser takes us out of our own time of waste, war, wantonness and want and into an era when you spent what you had on the things that really matter most to our