Featured in the movies, including Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the Jacobite steam train starred as the Hogwarts Express, which saw Harry, Ron and Hermione travel from London's King's Cross Station Platform 9¾ to Hogsmeade Station at the start of the school term. Luckily for ...
She was the first woman to have been Rector of the University of Edinburgh and is the first female chair of the board of governors at Glasgow School of Art. Birthplace: East Kilbride, Scotland Neil Forsyth Age: 47 Neil Forsyth (born 1978 Dundee, Scotland) is a Scottish author, television...
The Education Act 1902 had a major long-term impact in modernising the school system in England and Wales and provided financial support for schools operated by the Church of England and by the Catholic Church. Nonconformists were outraged and mobilized their voters, but were unable ...
Poor pupils in Scotland half as likely to attend university compared with wealthier peersThe pervasive gap is revealed amid a row over the prospects of disadvantaged pupils in Scotland27th February 2018, 4:32pm Henry Hepburn School leavers from poor backgrounds in Scotland are only half as likely...
In some Old Testament passages, the term “sea” (יָם, yam) is used to refer to the chaotic abyss that was the original state of the world prior to creation. This primordial sea was believed to have covered the whole earth (Gen 1:1–2:4a; Pss 18; 29; 89; Job 9:8; 26...
For short-term rentals, look to the easily accessible Southside, Dennistoun, Partick, Finnieston and Hyndland neighborhoods. Consider Holmwood Coach House, the former stables of the gorgeous Holmwood House (now a museum), on the city’s southern edges. ...
It has become a term of abuse and manipulation, nothing more, and when I see it used with such easy facility, then, to quote an actual fascist, I reach for my revolver. I believe in an independent Scotland. Does that make me a nationalist? Yes. Am I therefore a fascist? By your ...
According to theMet Office, the UK’s average mean temperature during last summer was 14.4°C, which is 0.2°C cooler than the long-term average. The last time the summer temperature was this low was in 2015, with an average of 13.9°C. Summer 2024 was even chillier in Scotland, with...
Born in Elgin, Scotland in 1973, McKidd was shy as a child with no particular interest in the sports that were a popular pastime amongst his peers, but he discovered his own unique talent when he began performing in school plays. He found work during his student years at a distillery and...
it can serve offshore areas that are too deep for bottom fixed turbines. "In places like Korea,Japan and California,you can only manage a certain amount of offshore wind,or maybe even none at all,so floating turbines are the only option in the longer term," explains Henrik Steisdal,a ...