To mark the first anniversary of its being awarded the event, Glasgow has announced the launch of the 2014 Communities Fund. This is designed to build the foundations for an enduring benefit from the city’s hosting of the 2014 Commonwealth…
An Air Europa flight (AEA-196) chartered by Thomas Cook and with 74 people on board has this morning (31st October) overrun the runway at Lanzarote airport in the canaries. Said to have been dealing with problems with its undercarriage, the…
Celtic Connections, sixteen years old in 2009 will be underway on Burns night in that year, the official start of Homecoming 2009 - and intends to mark the occasion with a twelve-hour marathon of singing. The Festival is now beginning…
Heavy rain yesterday has brought problems on the roads this morning. One lane has been closed on the eastbound M8 out of Glasgow causing a tail back several miles long. This has had a knock-0n effect on linking roads. The…
As a final tribute from the Royal Navy to a ship that had sailed in its support in the Falklands War, the QE2 was escorted by HMS Manchester, a Type 42 frigate,when she sailed up the Clyde to Greenock yesterday…
Relax. These very large volcanoes were active between between fifty five and sixty million years ago. They were in Ardnamurchan, Mull, Rum and Skye. Last week a team of thirty three eminent international scientists, led by geologists from the universities…
In the next couple of weeks Allied Vehicles in Glasgow will see the first of their new generation of electrically-powered taxis roll off their production line. The company has just had a revolutionary battery pack for the vehicles delivered from…
Over a million Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the last half of the nineteenth and the first third third of the twentieth century, included many who went to Canada, then described as ‘The last, best west’. This description was…
Yesterday we tested the Loch Lomond seaplane service for ourselves, without declaring our identity and at our own expense. It is Scotland’s second favourite tourist attraction so finding out about it was worth doing.
There’s no visible organisation at the Oban…
[ January 14, 2009 to February 1, 2009. ]
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2009 Celtic Connections runs from 14th January - 1st February, in Glasgow.
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