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It’s a red slab that’s played a key role in Scottish and English royal history and now… the stone’s coming back home to a new £27 million museum!

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It’s a red slab that’s played a key role in Scottish and English royal history and now… the stone’s coming back home to a new £27 million museum!

By Mark Jones For The Daily Mail Published: 13:15 GMT, 29 March 2024 | Updated: 18:42 GMT, 29 March 2024 What is it about a slab of red sandstone that’s persuaded a hard-pressed Scottish council to spend £27 million on it? That’s the sum required for a new museum in Perth. It opens on March … Read more

Inside Britain’s most northerly hotel in the Shetland Islands – just 200 miles from the Norwegian coast. It’s very cosy and VERY remote. And there’s a secret local story…

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Inside Britain’s most northerly hotel in the Shetland Islands – just 200 miles from the Norwegian coast. It’s very cosy and VERY remote. And there’s a secret local story…

Listening to the wind howl and watching the rain lash against my window in my little room at the Baltasound Hotel on the intriguing island of Unst in the Shetland Islands, I was extremely glad to be where I was. It wasn’t just that I was avoiding the gale. It was a feeling of being … Read more