Letter from Edinburgh
The National Centre for Excellence in Traditional Music is based at Plockton High School on the west coast, two hours drive from Inverness.
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Letter from Edinburgh
I’m composing these words on Tuesday afternoon before heading out to Up-Helly-A’ with squad number 18.
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I went to Oldham for a day this week. There’s a by-election! All the parties are asking their supporters for help. A great Liberal, Cyril
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You wouldn’t believe the size of the pile of Amazon and Play.com boxes in the Lerwick Post Office. Actually you would. I guess it’s a
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Apart from the de-icer boom falling on a plane at Sumburgh at the beginning of the week, our airport has done a good job keeping
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Whose idea was it to have both the Food Festival and the Craft Fair last weekend? It worked.
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We debated aircraft carriers being built on the Clyde and Firth of Forth, the Nimrod base at RAF Kinloss in Morayshire and the merits of
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Next to the Fraser Peterson Centre at Mossbank, something new is emerging from the soil and it’s not just grass.
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A big thank you to the Fair Isle Primary School pupils. Last week they grilled me on what I do and why. A perfectly reasonable
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Parliament is not formally back in business quite yet. But having not been near the Holyrood office for five weeks, the day dawned when it
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Bressay is having a lively debate. No, not fixed links. We will be pushing up daisies before that one re-emerges. No, not the splendid new
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Bell’s Brae Primary occasionally has a lot to answer for! Cameron came home from school one Friday late last year and decreed that he wanted
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I’ve often wondered why we are all convinced by the computer and IT industry to buy a shiny new laptop and accompanying “new” software every
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I’m writing this after buying a cup of coffee and a chocolate bar in the parliamentary canteen. I needed a caffeine burst to encourage the
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