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🗣️ 'I’m absolutely thrilled that it was another of my recipes' Congratulations to Scottish butcher Nigel Ovens who picked up Scotland's coveted National Black Pudding Championship title for an unprecedented fourth time 👏
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'Elated' Scottish butcher wins best black pudding prize for record fourth time

'Elated' Scottish butcher wins best black pudding prize for record fourth time

A BUTCHER has won Scotland’s coveted National Black Pudding Championship title for an unprecedented fourth time.

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NEW: Three teams have been selected for the Tennent's Lager race to Germany ahead of the kick-off of the first Euros game this summer ⚽ The teams will be competing against each other in a race to Munich to catch the opening game at the Euros - Scotland v Germany!
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Six Scots to compete in Tennent's 'race to Germany' for opening Euros game

Six Scots to compete in Tennent's 'race to Germany' for opening Euros game

THREE teams have been selected for the Tennent's Lager race to Germany ahead of the kick-off of the first Euros game this summer ...

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Just look at this STUNNING image of the Northern Lights as seen from Spean Bridge 😍 Did anyone else manage to catch a glimpse on Saturday?
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NEW: A young Scottish girl with sight loss has won a national charity award for creative writing to celebrate World Book Day 📚 Nine-year-old Grace Kidd from Falkirk wrote a 500-word short story called The Mysterious Box using her Braille Note Touch 👏
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Young partially sighted author wins national award for creative writing

Young partially sighted author wins national award for creative writing

A YOUNG girl with sight loss has won a national charity’s award for creative writing to celebrate World Book Day ...

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NEW: This is 57-year-old fish farmer Stewart Hawthorn from Stirling, who recently took part in the Boston Marathon and raised thousands for the Gaelic Book Council 🏃‍♂️ What a fantastic achievement 👏
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Scot raises thousands for Gaelic charity in Boston Marathon run

Scot raises thousands for Gaelic charity in Boston Marathon run

A MAN from Stirling has achieved a remarkable milestone by completing the 2024 Boston Marathon and raising more than £4500 for the Gaelic Books Council.

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How Glasgow's patron saint helps offer lessons on climate change 🤔 thenational.scot/news/237190…
'Glasgow's patron saint offers valuable lessons on climate change'

'Glasgow's patron saint offers valuable lessons on climate change'

THE patron saint of Scotland’s largest city offers a lesson for modern Scots facing climate change, according to the composer of a major new work.

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'There's life in the old dog yet' thenational.scot/news/237201…
'Life in the old dog yet': Ian Blackford leaves MSP candidacy up in the air

'Life in the old dog yet': Ian Blackford leaves MSP candidacy up in the air

IAN Blackford has not ruled out whether he will stand for election at Holyrood, saying there “is still life in the old dog yet”.

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'What happens when you’re not the hero of your story, but the villain?' thenational.scot/culture/237…
Review: Sometimes we need our characters to be a little bit awful

Review: Sometimes we need our characters to be a little bit awful

WHAT happens when you’re not the hero of your story, but the villain?

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'Unpicking the Bute House Agreement would only set Yousaf’s government on a shaky footing' // Analysis from @agc_reports thenational.scot/news/237200…
Ripping up Bute House Agreement will do nothing to further the cause of independence

Ripping up Bute House Agreement will do nothing to further the cause of independence

RIPPING up the Bute House agreement with the Scottish Greens does nothing to further the cause of independence.

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✍️ 'The cooperation deal that brought our two pro-independence political parties could never have even been imagined in the outdated, obsolete politics of the past' @patrickharvie on why the Bute House Agreement is crucial for independence thenational.scot/politics/23…

SNP-Green Bute House deal is the 'biggest asset to delivering Scottish independence'

BACK in the early years of the devolution era, in the midst of the nasty, homophobic campaign to save Section 28, I knew I wanted to get more involved in Scottish politics. When I looked at the...

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'Few cities in the world can keep pace with Glasgow’s status as an event city' // Stuart Cosgrove (@Detroit67Book) thenational.scot/sport/23718…
Stuart Cosgrove: Glasgow is a perfect event city but Commonwealth Games are fading

Stuart Cosgrove: Glasgow is a perfect event city but Commonwealth Games are fading

TWO opposing views came into conflict, not in the same week, nor the same day … but in the same fraught cab journey.

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'When I was a kid, it seemed like half the country wanted peace, and half didn’t' thenational.scot/culture/237…
Powerful new Fringe play offers a bold voice for peace

Powerful new Fringe play offers a bold voice for peace

‘ANTISEMITISM is hatred of Jews as Jews, it is not criticism of Israel.”

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'MacInnes takes delight in the mysteries of the natural world' thenational.scot/culture/237…

Booker prize nominee takes delight in mysteries of the natural world

ASCENSION Island is back in the news – remember its use during the Falklands War?

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Here's 10 things that changed my life with National Piping Centre director Finlay MacDonald 🎵 thenational.scot/news/237188…
10 things that changed my life with National Piping Centre director Finlay MacDonald

10 things that changed my life with National Piping Centre director Finlay MacDonald

Nan Spowart spoke with Finlay MacDonald, director of piping at The National Piping Centre and artistic director for Piping Live!

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From Hawaii wildfires to the Barbie ban in Kuwait, here's David Pratt's (@foreigncorr1) Four Corners 👇 thenational.scot/politics/23…
David Pratt: Military consolidates power in Pakistan after jailing opposition leader

David Pratt: Military consolidates power in Pakistan after jailing opposition leader

THE generals are back on the political march again

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