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The famed Glenfinnan Viaduct; a train approaching the Horseshoe Curve on the West Highland Line; The Jacobite steam train crossing the Caledonian Canal on the Banavie Railway Swing Bridge. Pictures: Colin Mearns/National Railway Museum/SSPL/Getty PICTURE the scene: sitting nestled in a window seat as sweeping panoramas unfold. Trundling through rugged glens and mist-strewn moors. Skirting the edges of majestic mountains and traversing remote coastal stretches. A smattering of landmarks – waterfalls, standing stones, crumbling keeps – to stoke the imagination. The tantalising romance of rail travel never fails to excite (who doesn t love the film Brief Encounter?) and Scotland has no shortage of gems: from stunning scenery and breathtaking summits to incredible bridges and famed viaducts – the list goes on.
John McOwan hears the bells of Peebles Old Parish Church ring out in his honour as he turns 100 years old. Photo courtesy of Neil MacIntyre AS a young man, John McOwan would run through the crowds during Beltane Saturdays and make his way up the steep winding tower of the Old Parish Church to ensure the bells didn’t go off during the crowing of the Beltane Queen. Last Saturday, however, there was hardly a soul on the street, but an elderly man stood gallant at the bottom of the church steps, several medals adorning his jacket and wearing a REME beret.
Call to creatives to take up funding for new projects to help young Fifers
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OnFife has launched a small grants initiative to support freelance artists and creatives to work with young Fifers on new projects.
Grants of between £500 and £5,000 are being made available by Fife Cultural Trust (OnFife) to work with children and young people, especially those who have been most affected by Covid-19.
The Youth Arts Small Grants Scheme is funded by Creative Scotland as part of the Scottish Government’s Covid-19 Emergency Fund.
Three basement flats are privately owned and occupied and not in poor condition. A supporting statement included within the planning application addresses the parking situation. It suggested that people were parking on Church Street and nearby Castle Street to take the bus or train elsewhere, as well as to get to the town’s High Street. However, the report added that there was other parking available nearby. It calls on members of the planning committee to visit the site and to consider at the history of the building. The report concludes: “It would be a sin if we were to allow this historical building to decline further.