Tag: scotland
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Ye Tak the High Road…
This Autumn – very soon now – the Scottish people will be asked to vote either to stay in the United Kingdom, or become an independent nation, thus severing a bond tied in 1707, and a history that extends much further, back to the days when the political alliances of sovereign nations in Western Europe…
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The Gretna Diaries
Last weekend I found myself in Gretna Green. Someone foolishly brave enough to marry there was foolishly brave enough to invite me. Gretna Green, for anyone not ‘in the know’ is the first village you come to after crossing the border from England into Scotland. For several hundred years English law decreed no-one beneath the…