(Article by The National) ARTICLE SOURCE: >> www.thenational.scot/news/sturgeon-indyref2-now-highly-likely-before-2020.23655 RELATED LINKS: THE NATIONAL WEBSITE >> www.thenational.scot Sturgeon: Indyref2 now ‘highly likely’ before 2020 IT IS “highly likely” Scotland will be asked to vote on independence before 2020, Nicola Sturgeon has said. Speaking on ITV’s Peston show, the First Minister challenged Theresa May to stop the breakup of the UK by listening to the Scottish Government’s demands to remain in the European single market. During last week’s SNP conference Sturgeon said she would soon publish a package of proposals for new powers…
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Nicola Sturgeon: SNP 16 Conference
“The time is coming to put Scotland’s future in Scotland’s hands” @NicolaSturgeon concludes #SNP16 ARTICLE SOURCE: >> twitter.com/ScoPoliticsNews/status/787333465670836224 RELATED LINKS: SNP WEBSITE >> www.snp.org "The time is coming to put Scotland's future in Scotland's hands" @NicolaSturgeon concludes #SNP16 https://t.co/3sqVhCCRS3 — ScottishPoliticsNews (@ScoPoliticsNews) 15 October 2016
Read MoreNicola Sturgeon warns on leaving Single Market
Sky News 16/10/16 VIEW POST ON TWITTER: >> twitter.com/ScoPoliticsNews/status/787608132717608960 RELATED LINKS: SNP WEBSITE >> www.snp.org .@NicolaSturgeon: continuing to be part of a UK determined to leave single market has severe consequences #Murnaghan .@NicolaSturgeon: continuing to be part of a UK determined to leave single market has severe consequences #Murnaghan https://t.co/n1kk5XPrHV — ScottishPoliticsNews (@ScoPoliticsNews) 16 October 2016
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Nicola Sturgeon’s #SNP16 speech: the key points by Liam Furby ARTICLE SOURCE: >> www.snp.org/nicola_sturgeon_snp16_speech_key_points RELATED LINKS: SNP WEBSITE >> www.snp.org Nicola Sturgeon delivered her closing speech at SNP National Conference, and set out our vision for Scotland: a welcoming, progressive, open, outward-looking and inclusive nation. The speech was packed with new announcements – from increased childcare flexibility to new measures to boost our economy. Here’s what you need to know. We will implement a four-point plan to boost trade and exports, ensuring that our European friends know that Scotland is…
Read MoreNicola Sturgeon opening address #SNP16
ARTICLE SOURCE: >> www.snp.org/nicola_sturgeon_opening_address_2016 RELATED LINKS: SNP WEBSITE >> www.snp.org Below is the opening address given by Nicola Sturgeon to SNP Conference 2016. Conference. Welcome to the Dear Green Place. Welcome to the great city of Glasgow. A city that said Yes in 2014. A city where every citizen is now represented in the Scottish Parliament by an SNP constituency MSP. Let me begin today by warmly congratulating our new Depute Leader, Angus Robertson. We had four first class candidates to choose from. Indeed, we had more quality in our…
Read MoreSlovakia 3 – 0 Scotland
BBC REPORT: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37538763 MATCH STATS: http://www.uefa.com/worldcup/season=2018/matches/round=2000717/match=2017743/index.html Scotland slumped to an emphatic defeat to Slovakia in a calamitous 2018 World Cup qualifier that intensifies the pressure on coach Gordon Strachan. The Scots – who drew with Lithuania on Saturday – fell behind when Robert Mak netted moments after the visitors felt Steven Fletcher was fouled in Trnava. Mak sidestepped Russell Martin for the hosts’ second before Adam Nemec rose unchallenged to head their third. Scotland now sit fourth in Group F, three points behind leaders England.
Read MoreEliza Wigham
ARTICLE SOURCE: >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Wigham Elizabeth (Eliza) Wigham (23 February 1820 – 3 November 1899) was a leading suffragist and abolitionist in 19th-century Edinburgh, Scotland. She was involved in several major campaigns to improve women’s rights in 19th-century Britain, and has been noted as one of the leading citizens of Edinburgh. Her stepmother, Jane Smeal, was a leading activist in Glasgow, and her brother John Richardson Wigham was a prominent lighthouse engineer. Photo: Public Domain – http://www.nls.uk/collections/topics/slavery Life Eliza Wigham was born on 23 February 1820 in Edinburgh to John Tertius…
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ARTICLE SOURCE: >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt James Watt FRS FRSE (30 January 1736 – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. While working as an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow, Watt became interested in the technology of steam engines. He realised that contemporary engine designs wasted a…
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ARTICLE SOURCE: >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Telford Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels. Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed The Colossus of Roads (a pun on the Colossus of Rhodes), and, reflecting his command…
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ARTICLE SOURCE: >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume David Hume (7 May 1711 – 25 August 1776) (born David Home) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of radical philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Hume’s empiricist approach to philosophy places him with John Locke, George Berkeley, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes as a British Empiricist. Beginning with his A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Against…
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