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Paul Murton is a Scottish television presenter and broadcaster, film-maker, and historian, working primarily on the BBC with an emphasis on travelogues in Scotland.Born in 1957 and raised in Ardentinny on the shores of Loch Long, Argyll, Scotland, where his parents ran a small hotel, Murton is best known for his series Scotland's Clans, Grand Tours of Scotland, Grand Tours of the Scottish ...
Robin Hall (27 June 1936 – 18 November 1998) [1] was a Scottish folksinger, best known as half of a singing duo with Jimmie Macgregor. [2] Hall was a direct descendant of the famous Scottish folk hero and outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor as well as of the explorer Mungo Park.
The Herald is the longest running national newspaper in the world [3] and is the eighth oldest daily paper in the world. [4] The title was simplified from The Glasgow Herald in 1992. [5] Following the closure of the Sunday Herald, the Herald on Sunday was launched as a Sunday edition on 9 September 2018. [6]
Michelle McManus was born in 1980 in Glasgow, Scotland to John and Helen McManus, [11] and is the oldest of five sisters. Before auditioning for Pop Idol, McManus lived in the Glasgow district of Baillieston, to the east of the city with her parents and sisters.
He made seven Scotland appearances in all, with his last appearance coming in February 1997. [ 41 ] [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Ferguson refused international selection after 1997, partly in protest against his treatment by the SFA after his conviction for assault on John McStay and in particular the imposition of a 12-game ban on top of his three-month ...
Anna Maria Torv was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1944 [1] to Jakob Tõrv (anglicised Jacob Torv), an Estonian merchant seaman, and Sylvia Iris Bodfish, a Scottish drycleaner's shop assistant. Her parents had a drycleaning business in Glasgow, until they emigrated to Australia.
Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1961, to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, a suburb of Glasgow. [8] They adopted Jackie in 1961, having already adopted her brother, Maxwell, about two years earlier.
He was an inaugural inductee to the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in 2004, [18] and is also on the international roll of honour, having won 50 international caps. In 2010, Miller was chosen as one of the eleven members of Scotland's Greatest Team , by viewers of the Scottish Television documentary series, which sought the fans' opinion on the ...