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Readers' Letters: Councils need to save leisure centres scotsman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scotsman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A Hot Air Balloon Gave Us the First Aerial Map atlasobscura.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from atlasobscura.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This month, head to The Dog Lover Show in Glasgow, read our chat with Alistair McGowan as he talks about his surprisingly non-Scottish roots, and support It’s Up To Us for long-term public funding for our hills. ....
The Edinburgh 'hot air balloon eccentric' whose life ended in utter tragedy edinburghlive.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from edinburghlive.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Scotland s aviation history celebrated through new RAF website and trail LARGE crowds gathered as an aeronaut ascended in a hydrogen balloon from the garden of George Heriot’s School in Edinburgh on October 5, 1785. Italian Vincenzo Lunardi flew over the Firth of Forth and landed at Coaltown of Callange in the Parish of Ceres, in Fife, and had travelled 46 miles. A commemorative plaque marks the site to this day. In a report from the time by Scots Magazine, it said: “The beauty and grandeur of the spectacle could only be exceeded by the cool, intrepid manner in which the adventurer conducted himself; and indeed he seemed infinitely more at ease than the greater part of his spectators.” ....