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A coastal community in the Scottish Borders is counting the cost of online shopping after a courier company struggled to deliver parcels in the run up to Christmas. Villagers in Coldingham and St ...
Glengarry County, an area covering 288,688 acres (1,168 km 2), is a county in the province of Ontario, Canada.It is still inhabited by the descendants of 18th and early 19th-century Scottish Highland pioneer settlers from Lochaber, was historically a Gàidhealtachd community, and Canadian Gaelic language revival efforts are currently taking place there.
The commercial radio station, Radio Borders broadcasts from Edinburgh but still broadcast local news bulletins to the area as well as to Berwick-upon Tweed in Northumberland. The area is served by the main local newspapers: Southern Reporter [ 17 ] and The Border Telegraph .
The paper was established in 1855. [2]The Tweeddale Press Group owned the title and became a subsidiary of the Johnston Press in 2000, [3] having been purchased for £7.8 million. [4]
In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Glengarry Highland Games held annually at Maxville, Ontario, Canada Post issued 'Highland Games' on 1 August 1997. The commemorative stamp was designed by Fraser Ross, based on photographs by Andrew Balfour. The 45¢ stamps are perforated 12.5 x 13 and were printed by Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited. [3]
Scottish Canadians (Scottish Gaelic: Canèidianaich Albannach) are people of Scottish descent or heritage living in Canada. As the third-largest ethnic group in Canada and amongst the first Europeans to settle in the country, Scottish people have made a large impact on Canadian culture since colonial times.
Representing Border is a regional television current affairs programme, produced by ITV Tyne Tees & Border, covering political issues from Holyrood, Westminster and local government, affecting Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders.
Blandford-Blenheim is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Oxford County.The township had a population of 7,359 in the Canada 2011 Census.. Its government consists of a mayor and four councillors.