Updated: February 26, 2021, 3:46 pm
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Neighbours have expressed their shock after a young girl was attacked near their homes in Angus during an attempted robbery.
Those living in the Ferry Road area of Monifieth have confirmed police were back at the scene on Friday, conducting door-to-enquires.
Police Scotland are trying to trace a man who attacked a 14-year-old girl from behind on Wednesday at around 9pm.
Police were conducting door-to-door inquires.
The man who was described as tall and wearing a black hooded jacket fled towards the central area of Monifieth, leaving the girl with what police have described as minor injuries.
Saddened neighbours help police after girl, 14, attacked in Monifieth attempted robbery
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Down Memory Lane: When pirates plundered the ships of Highland traders in Scottish waters â and courted royal attention By Contributor Published: 19:30, 10 February 2021
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All fun at Nairn Sailing Club â but pirates were a serious danger a few centuries ago.
When you think of where pirates sailed, you think of Jamaica or Virginia and the Pirates of the Caribbean films. But the Scottish islands were once such a haven for these seagoing robbers that other European countries expressed concern.
Ruaridh The Turbulent was the chieftain of the MacNeils of Barra in the late 16th century and his followers became notorious for attacking ships.
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By Alan Riach Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University
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King James VI of Scotland, before he became James I of the abruptly United Kingdom in 1603
A new anthology of Scottish Latin poems centred on the reign of King James VI of Scotland, before he became James I of the abruptly United Kingdom in 1603, raises deep questions about that union, the centrality of the monarch and what “royalty” means. Alan Riach addresses them. Corona Borealis: Scottish Neo-Latin Poets on King James VI and his Reign, 1566–1603, edited by Steven J Reid and David McOmish (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2020)
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