... Scotland had more top universities, per head, than any other country. A hot bed of life sciences. Brilliance in creative industries. A ... Alex Salmond told the audience that "as an independent nation we would be the 14th richest country in the developed world. The UK is ...
Douglas MacQueen - Apr 13 2014 - 12:24pm - 0 comments
... for an area of peatbog, lochs and bog pools called the Flow Country. The area stretches across Caithness and Sutherland in Scotland. The ... protected by international treaties. “The Flow Country” covers some 1540 square miles (4000 km2). It is the largest ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jul 29 2020 - 8:48pm
... Spanish Civil Guard undertook action in the Southern Basque Country to seize the property and possessions of former Basque prisoners. ... accept any form of dissent within the borders of the ‘old Nation State’. The move also ignores efforts by moderating influences to ...
Bernard Moffatt - May 20 2018 - 1:17pm
Douglas MacQueen's blog “The Flow Country” is a large area, of peatland and wetland in Caithness and ... build up to form deep layers of peat. The bogs of the Flow Country have been growing for over 10,000 years, since the end of the last Ice ...
Douglas MacQueen - Nov 14 2018 - 9:16pm
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Douglas MacQueen - May 9 2017 - 1:31pm
... as I ever have that independence is the best future for our country. That’s why in the months to come we will also lead a renewed debate about how the enduring principle of that case, that decisions about Scotland are best taken by people who live here, is ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jan 5 2016 - 8:25pm - 0 comments
... Basque schools (Ikastolas) holds in the northern Basque Country every year. The Seaska ikastola federation's is urging the French ... conditions." Politicians in the northern Basque Country politicians have been asked to help and a motion to this effect has ...
Bernard Moffatt - Jun 3 2018 - 8:41pm
... An Oriant) sees Scotland as the designated honoured country for the year 2017. Each summer, around 700,000 people from all over the world come to Lorient in the Celtic nation of Brittany for the Festival Interceltique de Lorient to celebrate ...
Douglas MacQueen - Aug 12 2016 - 11:36pm - 0 comments
... has defended the use of torture of suspects in the Basque country. He was interviewed by the Spanish television station TV3. ... countries citing threat of abuse and torture in Spain. In a case in Switzerland in 2016 a woman apprehended on a European arrest warrant ...
Bernard Moffatt - Jul 8 2018 - 4:26pm
... Naas (Irish: Nás na Ríogh, or An Nás) is the county town of County Kildare, Ireland (Irish: Contae Chill Dara, Éire). In ... Network Information for Toursits Celtic nation: Ireland Itinerary: Ireland Leinster central ...
Anonymous (not verified) - Apr 17 2021 - 12:05am