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...Whose film roles include Willie O’Keefe in JFK and Ren McCormack in Footloose? Which popular puppet character of the 1940s and 1950s returned to BBC children’s television in 2005 in animated form?...
...In It Had to Be Tough, his history-cum-memoir of UK Commando training during the second world war, veteran James Dunning vividly describes new volunteers’ arrival at their Scottish Highlands boot camp....
...About a year ago it raised £20mn from backers including Highland Europe and actor Idris Elba....
...Villa, Sandy Lane, Barbados, $9.95mn Where On the Sandy Lane estate in St James, on the west coast of the island. Grantley Adams international airport is about half an hour away by car....
...The flipside is the income generated; James Shuttleworth, commercial manager of Jacobite operator West Coast Railways, estimates the value of the viaduct-transiting train to the UK’s wider tourism sector...
...From November each year, rain in the Angolan highlands floods south into one of the world’s few inland deltas, filling dry floodplains and rivers to produce up to 15,000 sq km of wetland....
...First worn in the Scottish Highlands in the 16th century, the kilt became a popular marker of national identity in the 18th following the Jacobite risings....
...In a joint statement, Pacific Maritime Association president James McKenna and ILWU chief Willie Adams praised the deal, adding: “We are also pleased to turn our full attention back to the operation of the...
...The last music I discovered was by Blind Willie McTell, who of course Bob Dylan wrote a song about. He’s a 12-string guitarist with the most beautiful voice....
...Returning this month, I found the ruin reborn as a proud Renaissance residence worthy of a Scottish Highland laird. This transformation is the work of the Landmark Trust, a conservation charity....
...James Watt is moving carefully....
...The sun was not yet up in Oban, a seaside town in the West Highlands, as I received this information, sitting in the driver’s seat of the camper van I had driven 100 miles from Glasgow and slept in overnight...
...In Wild Air, James Macdonald Lockhart repeatedly visits mountains, woods, heaths, lochs, streams, grasslands and fields across Britain....
...One answer is that they created some of the great cultural icons of the 20th century: Fleming came up with James Bond, Dahl invented Willie Wonka, while George Lucas arguably surpassed them both by giving...
...It was characteristic of Highland dress until the British government’s 1746 Dress Act forbade it in an attempt to suppress rebellious Scottish culture....
...James Mitchell, professor of public policy at Edinburgh university, said there appeared to be no good reason why the membership had not been disclosed earlier....
...Willie McTell, and reaching back to a constant thread of the 17th-century lament “Angola”....
...His legend, part of the Highlands’ enchantment, was born from his time on the run....
...The incident was depicted in James Graham’s hit play This House, but Heseltine says he did not like the production because of all the swearing....
...James McConnell, 23, father of a one-year-old, was also at the booth. “I have a love for guns. We have the Second Amendment for a reason, the right to bear arms,” he said....
...When James Harrison Wilson Thompson — better known as Jim Thompson — first set foot on Thai soil as an operative for the US Office of Strategic Services in 1945, he surely never imagined one day returning...
...James Cruickshank was born in 1961 and spent his childhood a couple of hundred miles north of Glasgow in the Scottish Highlands....
...sugologone.it Top trails in New Zealand New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, which stretches out from the east coast of the South Island, is so neat in its near-roundness that it was mistaken for an island by James...
...Sir James Dyson is an example of how conflicted it can get. His mix of entrepreneurial inventiveness, knighthood and country pile all feels textbook establishment, with a modern twist....
...Style Aurora James, the woman behind accessory brand Brother Vellies and the 15 Per Cent Pledge, talks about black entrepreneurship and her mission to rethink every closet in the US....
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