Five Red Herrings News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

This year there are an abundance of opportunities to hear Galloway authors and poets present their work.

Letters Readers respond to an article by Ian Jack on proposals for a rail tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland and a long-lost railway line A ferry sailing away from the port of Larne, Northern Ireland. Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP A ferry sailing away from the port of Larne, Northern Ireland. Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP Mon 22 Feb 2021 12.33 EST Last modified on Mon 22 Feb 2021 14.59 EST Ian Jack (A tunnel linking Scotland and Northern Ireland? Fantasy has replaced British modesty, 19 February) mentioned “a vast munitions dump on the seabed” on the route of the proposed rail t...

Tunnel visions and the romance of the railways in Scotland Letters © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP Ian Jack (A tunnel linking Scotland and Northern Ireland? Fantasy has replaced British modesty, 19 February) mentioned “a vast munitions dump on the seabed” on the route of the proposed rail tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland. The dump lies in the Beaufort Dyke, a deep trench in the North Channel. I reported its presence nearly 30 years ago for BBC News. The Ministry of Defence originally told me that it had dumped munitions there since t...