Since then, Nike then Adidas have had more overt branding on the shirts, with sponsors Scottish Provident ( 1997 ), NTL ( 2001 ), Zurich ( 2005 ) and HSBC ( 2009 ).

* 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.

Since about 2005, Oi Polloi ( from Scotland ) have recorded in Scottish Gaelic.

* John Brown ( footballer born 1915 ) ( 1915 – 2005 ), Scottish association football player

Your Scottish Deerhound Primer, Fern Hill, Ontario, 1989, 1999, 2005.

In June 2005, the Scottish Executive announced their intention to create Scotland ’ s first coastal and marine national park.

Scottish country dancing at the 2005 Skagit Valley Highland Games in Mount Vernon, Washington

Twenty Scottish Members of Parliament signed a House of Commons motion in March 2005 condemning him for comparing supposed Scottish dominance at Westminster to British rule in India: a " Scottish Raj " was running the UK, said Paxman.

Image: bulldog g-bhzr arp. jpg | Privately owned Scottish Aviation Bulldog, formerly of the Botswana Air Force and in their colours, at an English rally in 2005.

* Berry, P ( 2005 ) Prestwick Airport and Scottish Aviation

* Tiny Wharton ( 1927 – 2005 ), Scottish soccer referee

Plans to open the northern operations centre were reported by The Manchester Evening News in February 2005, and plans to open a permanent Scottish office in Glasgow were reported by The Scotsman in January of that year.

The Scottish Claymores, one of the 3 teams added to the league in 1995, were also discontinued with their replacements, the Hamburg Sea Devils, being established for the 2005 season.

Easter Road has sometimes played host to Scottish League Cup semi-final matches, such as in the 1996, 1998, 2004, 2005 and 2006 competitions.

In 2005, the Scottish Touch Association ( STA ) was formally constituted as the governing body to help develop the sport.

In 2005, Rosie Kane locked herself on to a 25 foot Trident replica outside the Scottish Parliament, only releasing herself after the replica was dismantled 14 hours later.

They are members of the Scottish Football League, and currently play in the First Division having been promoted through the play-offs at the end of the 2005 – 06 season.

Handed over to the incoming Labour administration and classified as secret because of Labour fears over the surge in Scottish National Party popularity, the document came to light only in 2005, when the SNP obtained the report under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

At any time Westminster could amend the Scotland Act, changing the powers of the Scottish Parliament ; it has previously amended the Act to maintain the number of MSPs, which would otherwise have been reduced in line with the reduction of Scottish MPs in the 2005 UK general election.

Since the 1985 – 86 season one half of the Old Firm has won the Scottish League and since the 2005 – 06 season the Old Firm have finished in the top two places.

* Mark Boyle ( 1934 – 2005 ), Scottish artist

* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer ( Traffic ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1926 – Joe Jones, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2005 )

* 1943 – Jimmy Griffin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Bread, Black Tie, and The Remingtons ) ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer-songwriter ( b. 1922 )

* 1929 – Link Wray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2005 )

* 1941 – John Fred, American singer-songwriter and musician ( d. 2005 )

In 2005, Cale produced Austin singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo's eighth album, The Boxing Mirror, which was released in May 2006.

Earle then married Lou-Anne Gill a second time, and finally, in 2005, married singer-songwriter Allison Moorer with whom he had a child in April 2010.

Luther Ronzoni Vandross ( April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005 ) was an American singer-songwriter and record producer.

* Chris Pureka, an American folk music singer-songwriter, came out publicly as genderqueer in a 2005 interview with Off Our Backs.

The legend of Tristan has also been represented through the song of the same name by English singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf, and was the lead single from his 2005 album, Wind in the Wires.

* Chrisanthos Theodoridis, ( 1934 – 2005 ) singer-songwriter, was born in Kozani

* John Davis ( album ), a 2005 album by singer-songwriter John Davis

* Merle Kilgore ( 1934 – 2005 ), country music singer-songwriter

When Cochrane collaborated as the lyricist on English singer-songwriter John Howard's 2005 album The Dangerous Hours, the poem became the basis for the song, " What A Carry On ," which begins: " The man in our compartment looks like Charles Hawtrey / From baggy suit and round horn rims / He views the underside of England / In a life of almosts and not quites.

He also joined his friend and singer-songwriter Betty Boo in a band called WigWam in 2005.

She began performing and touring in a crossover duo with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter in 2007 and with singer-songwriter Tom Brosseau in 2005.

The most notable recording artists of the fledgling Asian jazz label, Candid Records Philippines, are the Filipino-British singer-songwriter, Mishka Adams, who had since been migrated to the mainstream Candid U. K. label ; the guitarist-composer, Johnny Alegre with his jazz group, AFFINITY ( whose album was launched in London's PizzaExpress Jazz Club in 2005 ); and Mon David, who won the London International Jazz ( Singers ') Competition in 2006.

The documentary film, available on DVD ( DVD release date: February 15, 2005, run time: 80 minutes ), is narrated by Jacques Vroom, Jr. and contains a soundtrack featuring the music of singer-songwriter political activist, Michelle Shocked.

In Between Dreams is the third album by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson, released by Brushfire Records in the United States on March 1, 2005 ( see 2005 in music ).

Pierre Bachelet ( 25 May 1944 – 15 February 2005 ) was a French singer-songwriter with a gentle romantic voice.