Stay updated with breaking news from Murray Ritchie. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
OUR interactive page goes all wobbly, folks, and takes us back in time to 16 November 1967. Winnie Ewing, having sensationally taken a Labour seat…
Neil Armstrong receives the Freedom of Langholm on March 11, 1972 SPACE has once again been in the news in recent days. At the weekend Richard Branson's plans for commercial space tourism suffered a setback when Virgin Galactic aborted a test flight of its rocket-powered space plane. It was successfully carried to an altitude of about 9.4 miles, but did not decouple from its mother ship as planned. Scotland, of course, has its connections with the final frontier. Sutherland and Shetland are fighting it out for the right to be our spaceport and – here's the biggie – we can claim Neil A...