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Conservatives won the UK election, despite my vote.... 37% for the Tories, 31% for the Labour party. The SNP all but wiped out Labour in Scotland. They won every seat except one Labour constituency in Edinburgh, one Lib Dem in Orkney / Shetland and one Conservative held seat in southern Scotland ( Read more... )

The European election vote in Scotland, as previously mentioned, had the following overall results ( Read more... )

LONDON (Reuters) - The owner of a tiny island in off Scotland declared its independence from the United Kingdom on Saturday, saying he wanted the territory, population one, to be a crown dependency like the Channel Islands.

In a declaration on his Web site, Stuart Hill, who owns the 2.5 acre island of Forvik in the Shetland Islands in the North ( Read more... )

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Some interesting stuff I read on Wikipedia during my lunch break today...

Some have speculated that surviving members of the Knights Templar escaped the purge of their order by French King Philip the Fair in the early 1300's and travelled to Scotland.  Years later, led by the Scottish noble Henry I Sinclair (Earl of Orkney, Baron of Roslin, and ( Read more... )