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.

The parcels were recovered after a man claiming to be from the Scottish National Liberation Army made an anonymous phone call to Scotland Yard.

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Adam Busby ( born 1948 ) is a Scottish separatist who claims to be the founder of the Scottish National Liberation Army.

* Scottish National Liberation Army

The latter category includes all the national liberation movements ( as the Palestine Liberation Organization in Palestine, the Polisario Front in the Western Sahara territory of Morocco, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad in Azawad territory of Mali, and the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda in the Cabinda Province of Angola ) and some parties in Western democratic countries as well ( as the New Flemish Alliance and Vlaams Belang in Flanders, the Basque Nationalist Party and Euskal Herria Bildu in the Basque Country, the Republican Left of Catalonia in the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia and the Scottish National Party in Scotland.

He holds a BSc in Geography, submajoring in moral philosophy and psychology from the University of Aberdeen ( 1977 ), a financial MBA from the University of Edinburgh ( 1981 ), and in 2008 the Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages ( of which he is a Visiting Fellow ) at the University of Ulster approved the award of PhD by Published Work based on Soil and Soul and twelve supporting publications presented with a short linking thesis, ' Some Contributions of Liberation Theology to Community Empowerment in Scottish Land Reform 1991-2003 '.

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

The British Army came into being with the merger of the Scottish Army and the English Army, following the unification of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, as the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707.

The new British Army incorporated existing English and Scottish regiments, and was controlled from London.

Of Scottish parentage, Anderson was the son of a British Army officer.

The Scottish military ( as opposed to naval ) forces merged with the English, with pre-existing regular Scottish regiments maintaining their identities, though command of the new British Army was from England.

* 1666 – At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.

* 1899 – Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army ( d. 1986 )

* July 20 – Battle of Inverkeithing in Scotland: The English Parliamentarian New Model Army under Major-General John Lambert defeats a Scottish Covenanter army acting on behalf of Charles II, led by Sir John Brown of Fordell.

This memorial is located on the Frezenberg Ridge where the Scottish 9th and 15th Divisions, as part of the British Army, fought during the Battle of Passchendaele.

* James Murray ( British Army officer ) ( 1721 / 22 – 1794 ), Scottish military officer and governor of Quebec

Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO, OBE ( 15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990 ) was a Scottish laird, mountaineer, World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the Special Air Service.

He calculated that Cromwell's campaign north of the River Forth would allow the main Scottish Royalist army which was south of the Forth to steal the march on the Roundhead New Model Army in a race to London.

Under the terms of the Acts of Union, which joined England and Scotland in 1707, Edinburgh was one of the four Scottish castles to be maintained and permanently garrisoned by the new British Army, along with Stirling, Dumbarton and Blackness.

In February 2000, the Salvation Army publicly ( in their publication known as " War Cry " and in a letter to a Scottish Parliament committee ) opposed the repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act ( 1988 ) However, The Salvation Army in the UK and Ireland website refers to the organisation offering ' unconditional assistance and support regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual choices, respecting the identity and choices of all those referred to them .... As well as having a right to be dealt with professionally, people can expect from us encouragement and a respect for their individual beliefs, ambitions and preferences.

* Robert Erskine, ( 1735 – 1780 ), a Scottish inventor and later an American officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Again, in 1448, the town was burnt by a Scottish Army led by William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, and George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus.

After working as a clerk at the British Steamship Company in the City of London, he joined the London Scottish Regiment in 1909 and was among the first of Territorial Army to fight in World War I.

Field Marshal Johan Baner commanding the main Swedish army was joined by Field Marshal Alexander Leslie commanding the Army of the Weser which comprised German, Scottish and ( at least one ) English regiments.

He was favoured over Barclay because he was ethnically Russian whereas Barclay was of Scottish descent and officers insubordinate to Barclay could accept Kutuzov, thereby uniting the Army.

The seven British Army Infantry battalions of the Scottish Division, plus the Scots Guards and Royal Scots Dragoon Guards regiments, use the Saltire in a variety of forms.

In the battle for " hearts and minds " in Iraq, the Saltire was again used by the British Army as a means of distinguishing troops belonging to Scottish regiments from other coalition forces, in the hope of fostering better relations with the civilian population in the area south west of Baghdad.