Scottish Borders Council is considering an application by a property developer to build a housing estate on the opposite bank of the River Tweed from Abbotsford, to which Historic Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland object.

An additional problem was competition in the Liberal heartlands in Scotland and Wales from the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru who both grew as electoral forces from the 1960s onwards.

The story got around that he had refused to join the new party because he feared he would not be able to keep his Hamilton seat at a general election ; local Scottish National Party supporters nicknamed him " Chicken George ".

The split with Mebyon Kernow was down to the same debate that was occurring in most of the political parties campaigning for autonomy from the United Kingdom at the time ( for example the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru ), whether to be a centre-left party appealing to the electorate on a social democratic line, or whether to appeal emotionally on a centre-right cultural line.

It was addressed by Labour MPs Jon Trickett, Emily Thornberry, John McDonnell ( politician ) | John McDonnell, Michael Meacher, Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, and Elfyn Llwyd of Plaid Cymru and Angus MacNeil of the Scottish National Party.

Reconstructed Irish crannógs are located in Craggaunowen, Ireland ; the Irish National Heritage Park, in Wexford, Ireland ; and in Scotland at the " Scottish Crannog Centre " at Loch Tay, Perthshire.

He was returned at a by-election on 13 April 1978, an important victory which was seen as halting the rise of the Scottish National Party.

On 16 June, Dewar set out the legislative programme for the Executive which included: an Education bill to improve standards in Scottish schools ; land reform to give right of access to the countryside, a bill to abolish the feudal system of land tenure ; and a bill to establish National Parks in Scotland.

The national collection is housed in the National Gallery of Scotland, located on the Mound, and now linked to the Royal Scottish Academy, which holds regular major exhibitions of painting.

Contemporary collections are shown in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the nearby Dean Gallery.

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery focuses on portraits and photography.

In that election five regionalist parties got seats: the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) of Northern Ireland, the Scottish National Party ( SNP ), the Flemish People's Union ( VU ), the Walloon Democratic Front of Francophones ( FDF ) and the South Tyrolean People's Party ( SVP ).

The other members of the Bureau are all vice-presidents: Jill Evans ( Plaid Cymru ), Gustave Alirol ( Occitan Party ), Fabrizio Comencini ( Liga Veneta Repubblica ), Ana Miranda Paz ( Galician Nationalist Bloc ), Ian Hudghton ( Scottish National Party ), Sybren Posthumus ( Frisian National Party ), Sebastian Colio ( Basque Solidarity ), Dimitrios Ioannou ( Rainbow ), Rolf Granlund ( Future of Åland ), Reinhild Campidell ( South Tyrolean Freedom ) and Lucy Collyer ( Majorca Socialist Party ).

* 1638 – The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.

Representatives of various sections of Scottish society drew up the National Covenant in 1638, objecting to the King's liturgical innovations.

With all the main parties committed to the Union, new nationalist and independent political groupings began to emerge, including the National Party of Scotland in 1928 and Scottish Party in 1930.

They joined to form the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) in 1934, with the goal of creating an independent Scotland, but it enjoyed little electoral success in the Westminster system.

This period saw the emergence of the Scottish National Party and movements for both Scottish independence and more popularly devolution.

The Scottish National Party gained its first seat at Westminster in 1945 and became a party of national prominence during the 1970s, achieving 11 MPs in 1974.

Scottish journalist Alex Massie wrote in National Review:

Setts may be registered with the International Tartan Index ( ITI ) of the charitable organisation Scottish Tartans Authority ( STA ), which maintains a collection of fabric samples characterized by name and thread count, for free, and / or registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans ( SRT ) of the statutory body the National Archives of Scotland ( NAS ), if the tartan meets NAS's criteria, for UK ₤ 70 as of 2010.

The party is a member of the European Free Alliance and has close links with Plaid Cymru, the Scottish National Party and the Breton Democratic Union.

* In 2005, David McLetchie, leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party is forced to resign after claiming the highest taxi expenses of any MSP.

Donald Campbell Dewar ( 21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000 ) was a Scottish politician who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) in Scotland from 1966-1970, and then again from 1978 until his death in 2000.

He led the Scottish Labour Party into the first ever Scottish parliamentary election in 1999, and was elected both as an MSP and as First Minister of Scotland at the head of a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition.

Following the return of the Labour Party to government in 1997, Dewar became the Secretary of State for Scotland and campaigned for a ' Yes-Yes ' vote in the successful referendum on Scottish devolution.

When elections were held to the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party and through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, Dewar became the inaugural holder of the First Minister of Scotland post.

The first elections to the Scottish Parliament were held on 6 May 1999, with Dewar leading the Scottish Labour Party against their main opponents, the SNP under Alex Salmond.

Edinburgh is the home town of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, who was born in the city and attended Fettes College ; Robin Harper the co-convener of the Scottish Green Party ; and John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, and later president of Princeton University.

The growing importance of the working classes was marked by Keir Hardie's success in the Mid Lanarkshire by-election, 1888, leading to the foundation of the Scottish Labour Party, which was absorbed into the Independent Labour Party in 1895, with Hardie as its first leader.

* 1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club ( d. 1900 )

Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.

Geneva was founded by Scottish and Scots-Irish immigrants.

* 1830 – The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.

Founded in the 16th century, Keflavík developed on account of its fishing and fish processing industry, founded by Scottish entrepreneurs and engineers.

Subsequently, Scottish Presbyterian churches established missions in Malawi, such as the one in Blantyre founded in 1876.

* Relativity ( band ), a band founded by Scottish folk musician Phil Cunningham and other members of the group, Silly Wizard

In 1796, Scott's friend James Ballantyne founded a printing press in Kelso, in the Scottish Borders.

Roy Grönneberg, who founded the local chapter of the Scottish National Party in 1966, designed the flag of Shetland in cooperation with Bill Adams to mark the 500 year anniversary of the transfer of the islands from Norway to Scotland.

Arbroath Abbey was founded ( 1178 ), and the bishopric of Argyll established ( c. 1192 ) in the same year as papal confirmation of the Scottish church by Pope Celestine III.

* July 13 – The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.

* July 27 – The Bank of England is founded through Royal charter by the Whig-dominated Parliament of England following a proposal by the Scottish merchant William Paterson to raise capital by offering safe and steady returns of interest guaranteed by future taxes.

Carnegie Mellon predecessor institution, Carnegie Technical Schools, was founded in 1900 in Pittsburgh by the Scottish American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who wrote the time-honored words " My heart is in the work ", when he donated the funds to create the institution.

Scottish country dancing was in danger of dying out when, in 1923, the Scottish Country Dance Society ( SCDS ) was founded in Glasgow with the goal of preserving " country dances as danced in Scotland " ( this was only recently changed to read " Scottish country dances ").

In 1826, the Scottish Academy was founded by a group of artists as an offshoot of the Royal Institution, and in 1838 it became the Royal Scottish Academy ( RSA ).

A good example would be the Scottish Prohibition Party, founded by a communist temperance activist called Bob Stewart, who followed the British Labour Party on all other issues.

His paternal grandfather, Daniel MacMillan ( 1813 – 1857 ), was the son of a Scottish crofter who founded Macmillan Publishers.

Robert Graves, who lived in nearby Islip, mentioned his being recommended by Buchan for a lecturing position at the newly founded Cairo University and, in a 1927 by-election, Buchan was elected as the Unionist Party Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities.

* Dübs and Company, a Scottish steam locomotive works, founded by Henry Dübs

The settlement was founded on 24 August 1864 and named by Colonel William Moule after Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton, the popular Scottish commander of HMS Esk, who was killed in the battle of Gate Pā, Tauranga.