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EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A Scottish university press has resurrected Sir Walter Scott's last two works, written after he had three strokes and rejected for publication by his family.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland, March 1 (UPI) -- Environmentalists say the hills in southern Scotland that inspired many of the novels of Sir Walter Scott could be ruined by wind farms.
GLASGOW, Scotland, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- The Sir Walter Scott, a century-old coal-fired ferry that carries tourists on a Scottish loch, will be converted to run on biodiesel.
UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007.
EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 2 (UPI) -- William Topaz McGonagall, the Scottish poet widely reviled in life, is getting no honor in death either.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland, March 29 (UPI) -- The unique Scottish legal verdict, "not proven," which has been under fire for 300 years, faces a new challenge from a legislator.
ORANGE, Calif., March 2 (UPI) -- A California woman found out she was pregnant only 48 hours before she gave birth to a healthy full-term baby boy.
LONDON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A team of British military personnel has become the first service members to visit the South Pole in nearly 100 years.
