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What Does a Half-Hour Fireworks Display, Set Off at Once, Look Like?
A fireworks display in Oban, Scotland, had a "technical hitch" last night, and saw the entire half hour performance go off in just one minute flat. Well, that was well worth leaving the...
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Woman Saved In Car Crash By Chicken Fillet Bra Padding
In a tale that'll bring a tear to your eye -- a 28-year old Scottish woman was saved from certain death by her chicken fillets, after a head-on collision with another car during a driving rainstorm in...
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Gordon Brown Demands MoD Takes Action Over Scottish Beach Radiation
Gordon Brown has got stuck into the debate over whether the radiation found on a beach in Scotland needs to be cleaned up, and if so, whose fault it is. The radioactive material found is radium, the...
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New Scottish Clans iOS App Sets Out to Chart Scottish Migration Around the...
With information on more than 350 Scottish clans, the 69p Scottish Clans iOS app attempts to put a little bit of Scotland in your pocket. But it's attempting to do more than that -- it wants to chart...
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Scottish Wind Turbine Bursts Into Flames In 80MPH Winds
You might have noticed, it's quite windy up in Scotland right now. It's so windy in fact that a wind turbine in Ardrossan, North Ayrshire in Scotland, burst into flames as the Atlantic storm battered...
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BT Investing £2.5bn on Bringing Fibre to 34 Scottish Exchanges
BT has announced plans to hook more Scottish home and businesses up to its next-gen fibre network, hopefully allowing another 277,000 homes to connect to faster fibre-based products.
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Naked Blonde Gives Scotland a News Flash
Scots interested in Ed Miliband’s leadership of the Labour Party got a bit more than they bargained for this week, when a bouncing naked blonde appeared in the background of a STV news broadcast.
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The Ultimate Test of Siri’s Accent-Deciphering Skills: Scotland
Siri has been tested in the interpretation of accents across the country, but she meets her match with the utterly amazing dialect of the proud Scottish people.
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Who Needs Films in 3D When You Can Get 4D Cinema in the UK?
Cineworld’s currently upgrading a few select cinemas into the 4th dimension – it’s going to shake you into life, literally.
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New Hospital Alarm System Shames Scottish Smokers into Stopping
There’s no smoking in front of Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Scotland — the sign says so — though nobody really paid attention to it. That’s why the hospital installed a loudspeaker-backed smoke alarm...
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The UK’s Friendly Neighbourhood Pirate Party Trains Its Guns on Scotland and...
Following Sweden and Germany’s lead, we have our own branch of the Pirate Party attempting to swashbuckle its way into power here in the UK; now it’s drawing a broadside on May’s local elections in...
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Whisky Matured In Space Could Be an Absolutely Genius Idea Out of Scotland
What’s better than a fine single malt? How about one that’s been matured in zero g? Space whisky is here, thanks to a Scottish distillery that decided to blast a barrel up to the ISS for a bit of...
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Crazy Woman Drives Through a Scottish Town With an Innocent Man Attached to...
I thought this kind of thing only happening in the movies, but apparently not. A woman used her car as a battering ram, collecting an innocent man who had to cling to her bonnet for dear life, as she...
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Did a Local Council Close Down a Girl’s School Lunches Blog So It Could Grab...
The bizarre and rather popular NeverSeconds blog, which featured photos of the school dinners served up to a Scottish schoolgirl each day, has been told to stop publishing photos due to pressure from...
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American Children are Actually Taught Nessie Is Real
No, really. Children in some US schools are being taught that the Loch Ness monster is a living dinosaur, as evidence against evolution. What the hell? The New York Daily News reported that biology...
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Scots Slap Young Drivers With Anti-Speeding Box
There are already lots of limits on speeding — fixed cameras, police patrols, average speed cameras — but for the ever-dangerous youth in Scotland, the police want more. Much more. The Association of...
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Scottish Brewery Creates World’s Strongest Beer (That Causes One Massive...
So, they say the world is going to end this year, and it looks like a Scottish brewery has got just the right stuff to celebrate the catastrophic event, with a rather potent 65 per cent beer aptly...
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Glasgow is Going to Be the UK’s Smartest City (Updated)
Normally, when someone says ‘Glasgow’, you don’t instantly think “smart city at the cutting edge of connected services and consumer technology”. (I’ll leave what really pops into people’s minds to the...
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Engineering 3D-Printed Stem Cells
While much has been said on the topic of 3D printing within the context of the maker movement, it is in the medical world where arguably the most important advances are being made. Scientists at the...
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Glaswegian Space Firm Ready for Big Time with Nano Satellite Launch
The small-scale privateer space race is about to kick off in Glasgow, with local firm Clyde Space preparing to whack its first UKube-1 nanosatellite project into orbit later this year. The small...
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