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The story of Stonehenge took a dramatic turn earlier this month after researchers uncovered the remains of the Waun Mawn site at Pembrokeshire s Preseli Hills, southwest Wales. Its discovery quickly proved to be one of Britain s biggest and oldest stone circles, and could be the original building blocks of Stonehenge. Researchers believe the stones might have been taken apart and rebuilt 150 miles away, on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, where it stands today, first built in 250
The terminal is set to be operational from May 2023 Stornoway Port Authority (SPA) announced a £49m investment into a new deepwater terminal which will enable larger cruise ships to call the Outer Hebrides islands of Scotland.
The Cruise Europe member is located on the island of Lewis and Harris, which is famed for Harris Tweed, the 5,000-year-old Callanish Stones, the Lewis Chessmen, Blackhouse villages, and picturesque beaches.
The deepwater berth is set to be operational from May 2023 and will be able to accommodate vessels up to 360mtr in length and will be the only deepwater berth on the west coast of Scotland, north of Greenock.
A CURSORY glance at social media networking sites reveals the modern snake-oil of civic managerialism: leadership courses. This new elixir of Scotland’s chattering classes reveals a make-believe land of paradigm-shifters where you too can call yourself a leader for a grand a week and get to sit cross-legged on bean-bags while telling the stranger on your right something surprising about yourself. It may not chime with cynics like me, but it can be lucrative and there is clearly no shortage of eager participants. Which is presumably why Sir Tom Hunter, one of Scotland’s most successful businessmen, wants to build a leadership centre on the shores of Loch Lomond at the site of Ross Priory in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire.
Why do you go there? To me, it s like another Scotland, perched on the edge of the roaring North Atlantic. Next stop: the eastern seaboard of America. Its remoteness suggests the expectation of adventure. To live there requires a different character, I believe. The long hard winters and the weather that can change in the twinkling of an eye.
How often do you go? I don t go often enough. I was lucky to go to Lewis with Sam Heughan this year, surfing of all things – my first time. Exhilarating, even though there is no danger of me becoming a threat to Laird Hamilton anytime soon.