scotland incidents

A large fire has broken out at Glasgow School of Art in the city centre. Fire crews are currently tackling the blaze in the school's Mackintosh Building. The building was ravaged by fire in May 2014 and a multi-million pound restoration project had been underway...

Because that's how we do things. BBC News: Army called in to transport vital NHS staff to hospitals "The Army has been drafted in to help 200 NHS staff get to work in Edinburgh. Using 4x4 vehicles provided by the Ministry of Defence, Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service...

Helicopter crashes into Glasgow pub

Argyll and Bute council bans children from taking pictures of their school dinners because catering staff fear for their jobs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18455348 To me, this is the jackboot of oppression crushing the little guy (or girl in this case). If the council doesn't like the...

Now I don't want all you chaps who live in the Hurricane belt laughing at us too much, but it's all fun and games here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-16082303 All the schools are shut, most non-essential public sector staff (is that the lot then?) have been sent...

Reporting Scotland (BBC Scotland's main daily TV news programme) just reported as fact that a world war 1 German Howitzer gun has been discovered by dowsing. The reporter states: While footage of the dowser doing his stuff is shown. Maybe I'm expecting too much from a regional news programme...

The story is as follows: Brian Souter is the guy behind the ‘Keep the Clause’ from Scotland back in 2000. The Clause was a piece of homophobic trash treating homosexuality like a dirty thing and aimed at keeping people ignorant about this aspect of human sexuality. In other words: The Clause...

I've started this thread in this forum because I'm interested in the miscarriage of justice angle more than the politics of the highest Scottish court being overturned by the UK supreme court...

A big cat has been photgraphed in Scotland. The railway line is about 4 and a half feet wide which by my rekoning makes the cat about 3 foot not including tail. That's a fairly hefty moggie for sure but I'd have thought it was still within the range of domestic cat...