The Scottish Labour Party ( SLP ; branded Scottish Labour ) (, ) s the section of the British Labour Party which operates in Scotland.

This may also occur if there is a significant difference in class between the two teams, for example, when Scotland beat Spain ( who were playing in their only Rugby World Cup ) 48 – 0 in the 1999 Rugby World Cup, or when Australia beat Namibia 142 – 0 in the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

England had four wins under Johnson going into 2009 ; in the 2009 Six Nations Championship they beat Italy 36 – 11, France 34 – 10 and Scotland 26 – 12 but were defeated by Ireland by 14 – 13 and to Wales by 23 – 15.

The Springboks did enough to beat Wales and Scotland before thrashing England on the end of year tour.

On 8 March 1873, the England national team beat Scotland 4 – 2.

Four months later on 9 February 1977 he netted his first international goal in an Under-21 game in which Scotland beat Wales 3 – 2.

A 70th cap came Shilton's way in a 1 – 0 defeat against Scotland at Hampden Park ; he later saved a penalty from Andy Breheme as England beat West Germany 3 – 0 in a tour match in Mexico, a year before England were hoping to return there for the World Cup.

In his book, The Final Whistle ?, Harry Reid claims that he took part in the 1977 Wembley pitch invasion after Scotland beat England and ripped up a patch of the turf-see Wembley pitch invasion

Most recently it was won by England who beat Scotland 13-6 at Murrayfield Stadium.

International disappointment for Peters was tempered mildly by more club success when he scored the only goal as England beat Scotland at Wembley on 19 May 1973.

Most notably, fiddlers often slur into the beat to produce a certain lilt, not unlike the Newcastle hornpipe style of bowing in England and Scotland, though the technique in Ireland is not restricted to hornpipes.

Wartime internationals were played at Hampden, and 91, 000 saw Scotland beat England 5 – 4 on 18 April 1942.

Josh MacAlister, the Labour Students ' candidate for the full-time position of NUS Scotland President, narrowly lost the election to Gurjit Singh ( the first independent candidate to beat a Labour Student in an NUS Scotland Presidential election since the organisation formed ) and Gaz Hughes, the Labour Students ' candidate for the part-time position of NUS LGBT Officer ( Open Place ), withdrew from the race shortly before the election.

The latest winners are Wales, who beat Ireland, Scotland and England on their way to the Grand Slam in the 2012 Six Nations Championship.

In European competitions, the Cup Winners ' Cup was transferred from Dortmund to another West German team as FC Bayern beat Rangers from Scotland on a Franz Roth goal in the final at Nuremberg.

In August 1995 Ireland beat Scotland at the RDS in Dublin.

Scotland won their pool, though the game against Ireland was close, and then beat Western Samoa in the quarter-final.

Scotland also beat England 18 – 12 at home at Murrayfield on 25 February 2006 to reclaim the Calcutta Cup.

This combination was explosive and Scotland went on to beat England 13 – 7 and win the Five Nations Championship with a Grand Slam.

The Championship was held every football season, starting with the 1883 – 84 season ( the first ever match seeing eventual winners Scotland beat Ireland 5 – 0 away on 24 January 1884 ).

Scotland beat the World Cup winners 3 – 2.

In all, 10 Minor Counties sides beat first-class opposition up to 2005 ( and three other sides, Ireland, Scotland and Holland, also beat first-class counties ).

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

In it he gathered a large library, a collection of ancient furniture, arms and armour, and other relics and curiosities, especially connected with Scottish history, notably the Celtic Torrs Pony-cap and Horns and the Woodwrae Stone, all now in the Museum of Scotland.

The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

" However, he did not begin his philanthropic work in all earnest until 1881, with the gift of a library to his hometown of Dunfermline, Scotland.

The membership of nearly 25, 000 women, all singing in English, includes choruses in most of the fifty United States as well as in Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, Wales and the Netherlands.

Fans come from all over the world to see the places in Scotland where William Wallace fought for Scottish freedom, and also to the places in Scotland and Ireland to see the locations used in the film.

Lambert was appointed major-general of all the forces in England and Scotland, Fleetwood being general.

If the sources for north-eastern Britain, the lands of the kingdom of Northumbria and the former Pictland, are limited and late, those for the areas on the Irish Sea and Atlantic coasts — the modern regions of north-west England and all of northern and western Scotland — are non-existent, and archaeology and toponymy are of primary importance.

While the sources for north-eastern Britain, the lands of the kingdom of Northumbria and the former Pictland, are limited and late, those for the areas on the Irish Sea and Atlantic coasts — the modern regions of north-west England and all of northern and western Scotland — are non-existent, and archaeology and toponymy are of primary importance.

It was only in October 1328, after a short-lived peace treaty between Scotland and England, the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton ( which renounced all English claims to Scotland and was signed by the new English king, Edward III, on 1 March 1328 ), that the interdict on Scotland and the excommunication of its king were finally removed.

* 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder ( but not for all crimes ) for a period of five years.

Yet in nations or regions where traditional folk music is a badge of cultural or national identity, the loss of traditional music can be slowed ; this is held to be true, for instance in the case of Bangladesh, Hungary, India, Ireland, Scotland, Latvia, Turkey, Portugal, Brittany, and Galicia, Greece and Crete all of which retain their traditional music to some degree, in some such areas the decline of traditional music and loss of traditions has been reversed.

Edward Irving, a minister in the Church of Scotland, writes of a woman who would " speak at great length, and with superhuman strength, in an unknown tongue, to the great astonishment of all who heard, and to her own great edification and enjoyment in God ".

This Roman imperial province eventually comprised all of the island of Great Britain south of the fluid frontier with Caledonia ( Scotland ).

Scotland advanced markedly in educational terms during the fifteenth century with the founding of the University of St Andrews in 1413, the University of Glasgow in 1450 and the University of Aberdeen in 1495, and with the passing of the Education Act 1496, which decreed that all sons of barons and freeholders of substance should attend grammar schools.

Economic growth and the intellectual benefits of a highly developed university system, together with Scotland's traditional connections to France, then in the throes of the Enlightenment, led Scots intellectuals to develop a uniquely practical branch of humanism to the extent that Voltaire said " we look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilization ".

The fashion for all things Scottish was maintained by Queen Victoria, who helped secure the identity of Scotland as a tourist resort, with Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire becoming a major royal residence from 1852.

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.

The harp was adopted as a symbol of the Kingdom of Ireland on the coinage from 1542, and in the Royal Standard of King James ( VI of Scotland / I of England ) in 1603 and continued to feature on all English and United Kingdom Royal Standards ever since, though the styles of the harps depicted differed in some respects.

Companies such as Hawick Cashmere, Hawick Knitwear, Johnstons of Elgin, Lyle & Scott, Peter Scott, Pringle of Scotland, and Scott and Charters, all have had and in many cases still have manufacturing plants in Hawick, producing some of the most luxurious cashmere and merino wool knitwear in the world today.

The Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland describes the Inner Hebrides as lying " east of The Minch ", which would include any and all offshore islands.

Haggis is widely available in supermarkets in Scotland all year round, with cheaper brands normally packed in artificial casings, rather than stomachs, just as cheaper brands of sausages are no longer stuffed into animal intestines.