Port Soy Harbour in the Grampian region of Scotland which, along with the Highlands, has a high rate of Huntington’s, partly due to ancestral susceptibility to the disease.
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Better awareness of the disease has led to more testing, but there is also an ancestral element to explaining its proliferation in the UK’s far north.
Peter Graham: Wandering Shadows (1878).
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The Catalans have no trouble telling their story of oppression through culture. The Scots find it trickier.
What’s it all about, wonders Sandy Grierson.
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Anything That Gives Off Light explores Scottishness from three very different perspectives.
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The Jacobites are regularly cast as ‘primitive’ Scots – yet it is a false narrative suited for political ends.
Charles Kennedy 1959-2015.
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The former Lib Dem leader remembered as anti-war orator and master communicator with a gift for relating to his audience.