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.

In January 2012, Taylor wrote to The Scotsman newspaper claiming that Scotland should be subject to partition, depending on the outcome of the Scottish independence referendum.

The last train was an enthusiast special, the " Deltic Scotsman Farewell " on 2 January 1982, from King's Cross to Edinburgh and back, hauled by 55015 Tulyar northbound and 55022 Royal Scots Grey on the return.

* interview in The Scotsman January 2011

It would be 40 years before another European, fellow Scotsman David Douglas, would reach the summit on 29 January 1834.

In January 2007, The Scotsman reported that Harper was being considered for the next Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament.

* Pountney born again after the turmoil ( The Scotsman, January 8, 2005 )

* Shameful assault on reputations of men with the game in their veins-Allan Massie ( The Scotsman, January 15, 2005 )

In The Scotsman in January 2004, he wrote, " It was never meant to last this long, but it has gone on and on and it has become increasingly unfair to the regions of England.

Flying Scotsman emerged from Doncaster works on 4 January 1947 as an A3, having received a boiler with the long " banjo " dome of the type it carries today.

The current principal is P. Kerr Fulton-Peebles, a Scotsman who was previously heading King Edward's School, Witley in the United Kingdom and succeeded John C. A. Barrett on 1 January 2010.

In an interview with The Scotsman newspaper of 31 January 2006, retired Scottish Judge Lord MacLean – one of the three who convicted Megrahi in 2001 – said he believed the SCCRC would return the case for a further appeal against conviction:

In 2000, after the over budgeted £ 1million restoration of Flying Scotsman was complete, Marchington sold Bittern to Jeremy Hosking, who moved her to the Mid-Hants Railway in Hampshire in January 2001, for full restoration.

* Scotsman. com News-Features-Don't gimme no Lip child ( retrieved 9 January 2006 )

* James Dow, Fopp has finger firmly on public's musical pulse ( Profile of Gordon Montgomery ), Scotsman Online, 9 January 2004, accessed 16 September 2007

" I have no doubt, on the evidence we heard, that the judgments we made and the verdicts we reached were correct ", he told The Scotsman newspaper on 31 January 2006.

" In January 2006, a report into poverty in The Scotsman newspaper stated that " a child born in Calton ... is three times as likely to suffer heart disease, four times as likely to be hospitalised and ten times as likely to grow up in a workless household than a child in the city's prosperous western suburbs ".

:* The Scotsman, ( Alasdair Steven ), Wednesday 28 February 2007.

* Townsend launches kids ' summer camps, The Scotsman, June 28, 2006

* Chalmers takes a bow-The Scotsman, 28 March 2005

Flying Scotsman will be repainted in its familiar-look Apple Green livery in the summer, but remained in black for the NRM's Flying Scotsman Preview Weekend which took place on 28 – 30 May 2011.

* The Flying Scotsman ( 1929 )

One of its first film appearances was in the 1929 film The Flying Scotsman, which featured an entire sequence set aboard the locomotive.

The Scotsman of November 19, 1936 said, " There was a time when M. Hercule Poirot thought of going into retirement in order to devote himself to the cultivation of marrows.

The Scotsman of July 22, 1926, said,

The Scotsman, in 2008, while asking whether society might have benefited from Whitehouse's campaign, also pointed to this case when it said " Whitehouse ’ s views on homosexuality were extraordinarily prejudiced.

According to The Scotsman, Dr Linda Watt, a medical manager at Leverndale Psychiatric Hospital in Glasgow, said that the hyperventilation technique might cause seizures or lead to psychosis in vulnerable people.

MacDougall was slightly embarrassed during the election campaign when his son Scott played a kilted Scottish National Party candidate in a party broadcast ( the broadcast depicted the other party's candidates as wearing underwear under their kilts, said to be the sign of a fake Scotsman, while the presenter checks and confirms the SNP candidate is a true Scotsman ).

The Scotsman of 17 March 1927 said, " The activities of Poirot himself cannot be taken seriously, as one takes, for example, Sherlock Holmes, The book, indeed, reads more like an exaggerated parody of popular detective fiction than a serious essay in the type.

Although commonly attributed to Englishman David Coleman, this was actually said by Scotsman Sam Leitch.

The Scotsman of 3 July 1941 spoke of the " surprising discoveries " in the book's solution and said, " All of these the reader may best be left to encounter for himself in the assurance that the quest will prove as piquant as any this skilful writer has offered.

However, it again became apparent that the Scots were truly a divided people, and that there was, evidently, a rather significant difference between what the common Scotsman said and what he actually did ( a Scottish national covenant demanding an intra-UK parliament in Scotland had received over two million signatures ).

The Scotsman review of the novel said, " To his credit, Faulks has imitated the haphazard plotting, sloppy characterisation, Colonel Blimp politics, sexist guff and basic incredulity of Ian Fleming to a tee.

In 1847, the Scotsman said that " Everybody knows that, by the law of Scotland, the marriage ceremony can be performed with as perfect legal effect by a blacksmith as by a clergyman ".

Susan Mansfield in The Scotsman said they were " far from traditional or conservative " and " as shocking as anything Jake and Dinos Chapman could produce ", adding " the Stuckists have a strong philosophical base ".

The Scotsman of May 9, 1938 said, " As usual, Miss Christie plays fair with her readers.

The Scotsman of April 19, 1924 said, " It might have been thought that the possibilities of the super-detective, for the purposes of fiction, had been almost exhausted.

In order to carry out this act, the man in question is said to have induced in himself a state of " Itsubishi Kyoko McSayonara ", it being the fifth state that a Scotsman can achieve.

Milland made a good impression on director Castleton Knight and was hired for his first acting role as Jim Edwards, in The Flying Scotsman.

Another was described as " a Scotsman of good family, educated at Eton and Oxford, and an idealist who worked for the Russians without payment.

The statements ... as accurately reported in The Scotsman, arose through information that they had been given locally, and which they believed in good faith.

The Scotsman of June 14, 1934 summarised its review by stating, " They are all good stories with plausible ideas neatly handled.