* Scottish Refugee Council, a charity based in Scotland

In recognition of the international convention that underpins the Scottish Refugee Council ’ s work, the charity produced a short film, Courage: 60 years of the UN Refugee Convention.

Scottish Refugee Council was established in 1985 in response to a growing need for assistance for refugees in Scotland.

During the 1990s the Scottish Refugee Council expanded because of international events and a need for more comprehensive refugee services.

In 1999, in response to the escalating crisis in Kosovo, the Scottish Refugee Council worked with the Refugee Action, UNHCR and other partners to set up reception centres as part of a humanitarian evacuation programme.

The Scottish Refugee Council was at the forefront in helping these refugees settle and integrate into Scottish society.

Following this change, the Scottish Refugee Council faced a 20-fold increase in the size of its client base.

Following this the Scottish Refugee Council helped to establish the Refugee Integration Forum to lead a community approach to improving the lives of refugees and asylum seekers.

In 1995, on the 10th anniversary of its founding, Nelson Mandela became a patron of the Scottish Refugee Council.

“ I am delighted to be associated with the Scottish Refugee Council ’ s aims of protection and resettlement of refugees in Scotland and I wish you every success in achieving these aims .”

Scottish Refugee Council States its vision as: “ a Scotland in which all people seeking refugee protection are welcome.

There are three main areas in which Scottish Refugee Council works to help refugees and people seeking asylum in Scotland.

Scottish Refugee Council provides a number of direct services to refugees and asylum seekers.

Scottish Refugee Council is also actively involved in campaigning and influencing public policy.

In conjunction with bodies such as the Refugee Council, Scottish Refugee Council influences policy at Westminster and the Scottish Parliament.

Networking and partnership-building is also important to Scottish Refugee Council.

It works closely with other refugee agencies in the UK, including the Refugee Council, the Refugee Survival Trust, and Scottish Detainee Visitors.

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.

Significant strands of this infrastructure include: The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh College of Art, Talbot Rice Gallery ( University of Edinburgh ) and the Edinburgh Annuale.

He launched numerous initiatives to promote Scotland, attracting businesses and new jobs through his new Scottish Council of Industry.

A long-standing supporter of the Home Rule movement, Johnston persuaded Churchill of the need to counter the nationalist threat north of the border and created a Scottish Council of State and a Council of Industry as institutions to devolve some power away from Whitehall.

Eventually UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook persuaded the Americans to accept a trial of the suspects in the Netherlands under Scottish law, with the UN Security Council agreeing to suspend sanctions as soon as the suspects arrived in the Netherlands for trial.

In the Scottish Rite the central authority is called a Supreme Council.

In January 2007, the Shetland Islands Council signed a partnership agreement with Scottish and Southern Energy for a 200-turbine wind farm and subsea cable.

An active Mason and member of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, by 1898 he was a Master Mason and had risen to the thirty-third degree in the Scottish Rite, the highest level of the order, and had become a member of its Supreme Council.

One of the Moorfoot Hills, it is located in the parish of Heriot in the Scottish Borders Council Area.

Badenoch ( from the Scottish Gaelic Bàideanach meaning drowned land ) is a traditional district which today forms part of Badenoch and Strathspey, an area of Highland Council, in Scotland, bounded on the north by the Monadhliath Mountains, on the east by the Cairngorms and Braemar, on the south by Atholl and the Grampians, and on the west by Lochaber.

The Council is currently controlled by the Scottish National Party.

* Judges of the Scottish Court of Session, known as ' Lords of Council and Session '.

The campus has been selected as the headquarters for a number of sports agencies including the Sportscotland Institute of Sport, the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland, Scottish Swimming and triathlonscotland.

UK universities have a statutory obligation to support their students in the establishment of some form of students ' union ( sometimes also called a " students ' association " or " guild of students ", and, in the Scottish Ancients, a Students ' Representative Council.

The V & A is in discussion with the University of Dundee, University of Abertay, Dundee City Council and the Scottish Government with a view to opening a new £ 43m gallery in Dundee which would use the V & A brand although it would be funded through and operated independently.

The decision to notify an SSSI is made by the official nature conservation body ( the appropriate conservation body ) for that part of the United Kingdom: Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Natural England, Scottish Natural Heritage or the Countryside Council for Wales.

In Scotland, its functions were merged with those of the Countryside Commission for Scotland to form Scottish Natural Heritage, and similarly in Wales there was a merger to form the Countryside Council for Wales.

As a result of the 2007 election, the Scottish Liberal Democrats lost control of East Dunbartonshire Council, with one of the primary grievances amongst the electorate being fortnightly waste collection, after the introduction of kerbside collections for recycling plastics, glass, metals and paper.

Unfortunately, the plan to connect Ocean Terminal and the Scottish Executive building area by the new Edinburgh Trams by the Port of Leith tram stop has been shelved after dispute between Edinburgh Council and the contractors.

Countryside Council of Wales and Scottish Natural Heritage

It is also represented on Fife Council by Keith Legg ( Scottish Liberal Democrats ), Douglas Chapman ( Scottish National Party ) and Pat Callaghan ( Scottish Labour Party.

This failure to honour the conditions of the Berwick treaty allowed Edward to continue to press for a Plantagenet successor to David — terms that were totally rejected by the Scottish Council and probably by Robert himself.

The sambur buck, the jungle stag that is even more noble than the Scottish elk.

`` Ring Of Bright Water '' by Gavin Maxwell is just that -- a haunting, warmly personal chronicle of a man, an otter, and a remote cottage in the Scottish West Highlands.

* Atlas is a nickname for Michael Marra, a Scottish musician ( born 1952 )

* 1318 – Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from England.

* 1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.

Abbotsford is a historic house in the region of the Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed.

The general ground-plan is a parallelogram, with irregular outlines, one side overlooking the Tweed ; and the style is mainly the Scottish Baronial.

In Scottish Law, consent is not a defense for assault.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in 1748.

* 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.

* 1388 – The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn.

Scottish empiricist David Hume made a similar argument, that belief in objective moral truths is unwarranted and to discuss them is meaningless.

Contributions from these ethnic foods have become as common as traditional " American " fares such as hot dogs, hamburgers, beef steak, which are derived from German cuisine, ( chicken-fried steak, for example, is a variation on German schnitzel ), cherry pie, Coca-Cola, milkshakes, fried chicken ( Fried chicken is of Scottish and African influence ) and so on.

* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.

* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

* 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey.

Areas similar to that of the council area are covered by the Angus Westminster constituency for the UK Parliament and the area is also represented at the Scottish Parliament by both the Angus and North Tayside Holyrood constituencies.

The triforium ( open arcade ) above the door is unique in Scottish medieval architecture.

There is a Scottish Youth Hostels Association hostel in Acheninver, a short distance to the north.

Bundle theory, originated by the 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume, is the ontological theory about objecthood in which an object consists only of a collection ( bundle ) of properties, relations or tropes.