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Nadine Lee
Airline Reveals Tartan-Clad Plane
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Cabin crew sport tartan scarves in front of easyJet's new tartan-clad plane. A distinctive orange and black tartan-clad aircraft has been unveiled to mark a new early morning flight from Inverness ...
Topics: EasyJet, highland, Inverness, Kilts!, London Gatwick, Plane, scottish register of tartans, Tartan
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Nadine Lee
Talking Folk with The ELephant Sessions
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The Elephant Sessions performing at Northern Roots 2013. Photo by Roddy Mackenzie. Hailing from Inverness, The Elephant Sessions are an upcoming act set to make waves on the traditional Scottish mu...
Topics: Folk Music, Inverness, music, The Elephant Sessions, Traditional Scottish Music
Nadine Lee
Map Reveals Scots Modern-Day Surnames
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A map of Great Britain’s most popular surnames shows the dominance that clan areas still hold in Scotland, while other areas show the effects of modern-day immigration. Created by experts from three...
Topics: edinburgh, glasgow, Highlands, Inverness, orkeny, Shetland, surnames, uncertainty of identity, western isles, Fraser, MacDonald, MacKay, MacKenzie, MacLeod, Ross, Sinclair, Sutherland
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Nadine Lee
The Battle of Clachnaharry
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Perched atop a hill overlooking the Beauly Firth in Inverness, the Clachnaharry Monument commemorates a particularly fierce battle between Clan Munro and Clan Chattan that occurred in 1454. After a...
Topics: Beauly Firth, Chattan, Clachnaharry, Fraser, Inverness, John Munro Tutor of Foulis, Lord Lovatt, Munro
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Nadine Lee
Terrorising Owl at Large in Inverness
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Feathered Foe Remains on the Loose Here's a strange case of life imitating art from Inverness, with news just in that rivals Hitchcock's 1963 horror The Birds: A giant Eagle Owl is to blame for at...
Topics: Eagle Owl, Inverness, Kilt Shop, Pub