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Tom Weir | A Welcome To The Hills
In the highest village in Scotland Tom Weir explores its mining culture and remarkable engineering sons In the warm light of the mid-morning sun the Nith Valley was looking better than I […]
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Tom Weir | Scotland In Miniature
Returning to the isle he worked the harvest fields on before the war, Tom Weir delighted in the fascinating history – and future – of Arran in 1978 “A fine day […]
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Who Do You Think Deserves A Commemorative Plaque?
Historic Environment Scotland are asking the Scottish public which figures from history they would like to see celebrated with a Commemorative Plaque. Nominations are now open for the national Commemorative […]
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Tom Weir | Sport For Spartans
After a glorious year of skiing in 1977, Tom Weir looks back at the rise of Scottish skiing, and why it’s a completely different beast to continental skiing… The year […]
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Due South 2015!
One man’s bid to become the first Scot to undertake a solo, unassisted and unsupported expedition to the South Pole 30-year-old Luke Robertson will set out from the Hercules Inlet at […]
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Tom Weir | Along The Solway
NOW and then comes a day of sheer perfection, when the sun shines from sunrise to sunset, and this was it. I was on the Solway on the estuary of […]
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Tom Weir | Talking Point in Argyll
Tom Weir and fellow adventure writer Willie Shand explored glorious Loch Goil – and debate the newly constructed caravan park I didn’t know that Willie Shand was such an early bedder or I […]
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Tom Weir | The Hills of Dee
There we were, Adam Watson and myself, watching the sunset gold on the winding Dee from the top of a heathery hill above Glen Dye… Through a gap in the […]
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Tom Weir | The Land of Knapdale
Knapdale holds some incredible and ancient secrets – for those who know where to look… The trouble about driving to North Knapdale in brilliant weather is that before you can […]
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Big Push To Raise Funds for Edinburgh’s St Columba’s Hospice
In the lead up to Hospice Week 2015, which runs until October 11, hundreds of people took to the Pentland Hills on September 19 for a major charity fundraising event […]
