‘It would be hard to replicate these experiences’: Inside the Scottish boarding school boom
Increasing numbers of Londoners are eyeing up schools north of the border, but what makes it such an attractive proposition for parents?
23 May 2021 • 6:00am
Simon Flemington moved his three teenage children from state schools in Kensington to the £40,000-a-year Gordonstoun
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With its Tudor-Gothic turrets and 300 acres of rambling glens and straths, Glenalmond College in Perthshire makes Hogwarts look homely. It even has a warden in charge, rather than a headmaster. Yet 13-year-old twins Jasmine and Amelie Forbes from Richmond in London can’t wait to become Scottish public school girls in September. “The uniform is the only thing they’re worried about,” explains their father, Graeme, who works in finance in the capital.
Penny Farthing bike journey round Roman sites to raise cash for Glenalmond College bursaries
A man from Loch Tay with a Roman helmet and a tall two-wheeler is doing the rounds of Perthshire s historic settlements in a charity bid for gifted students.
David Fox-Pitt will ride a 175km route around Roman sites on a Penny Farthing bicycle on Saturday, May 8 dubbed ‘The Eagle has Landed Challenge’ (Image: Submitted by David Fox-Pitt)
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Man denies animal neglect charges after dozens of cats and dogs seized from Perthshire farm
The animals are said to have been kept in squalid conditions at South Cairnies Farm Cottage, Glenalmond
Perth Sheriff Court. Pictures by staff photographer Richard Wilkins
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Rural Perthshire villages get defibrillators so public can act swiftly with cardiac emergencies
Several Perthshire villages have lifesaving emergency equipment for public use thanks to fundraising by the community and a charitable organisation.
A defibrillator located in a former telephone box in Harrietfield. The sad death of a man from a cardiac arrest in 2020 galvanized several Perthshire settlements to get life-saving machines for community use (Image: Submitted by Douglas Pover)
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