Vote YES to save the Scottish Parliament! With nine months to go before the Scottish Independence Referendum, London’s Palace of Westminster in November 2013 took back powers from the Scottish Parliament, says Shirley-Anne Somerville, National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament. In November 2013, something of great political significance
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Sutherland’s crofter Jeremy Gow has lost the tenancy on the croft to the bureaucrats. Land that has been in his family since 1954. . An Antiques specialist has claimed he is the victim of a “21st century Highland clearances” as he faces eviction from the croft that has been in
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Local ancestral Scot Jeremy Gow, is among the first of more than 1,600 Scots who either rent or own a second home in the Scottish Highlands. But for political bureaucratic greed, Gow and many ancestral Scots could lose their land around their properties in what has been dubbed the ‘Second
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Distinctly Ulster: Ulster in the north is the fourth province on the island of Ireland. Its name derives from the Irish language Cúige Uladh, meaning “fifth of the Ulaidh”, named for the ancient inhabitants of the region. Anthropological evidence shows that the region was settled by Celts during the
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The Highland Clearances were a callous and criminal chapter in Scottish history. They were the immoral means of selfish Scottish chiefs and lairds who as early capitalists preferred the Great Cheviot Sheep (“finely shaped, with countenance mild and pleasant”) to their own clansmen who had once been their warrior rent-roll.
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