Our philosophy of finding and holding great companies for the long-term naturally results in fairly low turnover within the portfolio, as long as we are doing our job well. During the first half of 2024, we made a new investment in Swedish drilling equipment company Epiroc, and we divested ...
Key dates for the 2024/25 season The Scottish Premiership season began on August 3 and unlike last campaign, there will be no winter break at the halfway stage. The final round of pre-split fixtures takes place on April 12/13, while the ...
As a diabetic, I’ve heard the term “diabetes on a plate,’ to describe different foods, which is a pretty ignorant way to look at any food. For insulin dependent diabetics, sugar is what can save their lives if they go into a hypo, and for the non insulin dependent diabetic, one ...
Amongst the lists of people thanked for gifts to the patients at Leith Hall was a Mrs Helen Scatterty of Earlsfield, Insch, who donated three-and-a-half dozen eggs in June 1917. She may have been related to the first matron of Insch Hospital, Isabella Scatterty (b.1886). Isabella gre...
50cl / 43% / Distillery Bottling - An old half-litre bottle of Glendronachs 12-year-old Original whisky. We estimate this bottle dates from the 1980s. Buy Now for £250.00World-wide delivery available - Price Subject to Change Glendronach 12 Year Old / Original / Previ Import / Bot....
"We booked this holiday village a bit last minute for the English October half term. There wasn’t much choice of accommodation left when we booked but was really pleasantly surprised. Our dog friendly lodge was..." Missing:Resort Breakfast included Cl...
Trump posted on his social media site a rant asserting that “I will win the 2024 election but that expect Democrats to cheat, and “when I win, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depra...
The very earliest Scottish shortbread was made from remnants of left-over bread dough which contained oatmeal and yeast (hence the 'bread' part in the name), which was then sprinkled with sugar and baked slowly in a cool oven. The 'short' in the name comes from the baking term 'short'...
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...
Cereal cultivation in Britain dates back to ca. 4000 BCE, probably introduced by migrant farmers from continental Europe. Widespread evidence for livestock appears in the archaeozoological record, also reflected by ubiquitous dairy lipids in pottery organic residues. However, despite archaeobotanical evi...