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    • Shipbuilding and History
    • Shipbuilding on the Spey
    • SV Industry
    • The Waverley
    • The Guiding Star
    • The Abeona
    • Annie Bow
    • Old Maps
    • Buckie/Elgin Area Football
    • National Gazetteer, 1868
    • History of Garmouth Water Tower
    • Maggie Fair
      • A Maggie Fair Tale
      • Maggie Fair – The Origins
    • Glimmer O Garmach
      • The Spey Viaduct
      • Memories of Kingston
      • Great, Great, Great Grandfather Thomas Hustwick
      • William Hustwick
      • William Hustwick (cont)
      • Alexander Duncan, Millwright
    • Historical Photo Gallery
  • Regional News

Month: February 2021

FACT CHECK: Claim Nicola Sturgeon missed four nations Covid call for BBC briefing

  • Regional News
Speymouth February 23, 2021

Many would say that leaving a call from Michael Gove to appear before the Scottish public on Covid is exactly what an elected Scottish FM should prioritise. Source

Did Nicola Sturgeon order the Union flag be replaced with the EU’s

  • Regional News
Speymouth February 19, 2021

THE claim has been shared by a number of Tory politicians, but is it true? Source

FACT CHECK: Claim Scotland has been ‘cooking books’ on Covid vaccine figures

  • Regional News
Speymouth February 11, 2021

AS Mark Twain said: “There are lies, damned lies and statistics.” Source

Covid: Did SNP promise to vaccinate one million Scots by February?

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Speymouth February 8, 2021

FACT CHECK: Did the Scottish Government promise to have vaccinated one million Scots against Covid by February 1, 2021? Source

Would independence hit the Scottish economy harder than Brexit?

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Speymouth February 3, 2021

This report by two London-based PhD students uses wonky methodology and claims to forecast 30 years in the future Source

Did the Scottish Government spend £700,000 sending out SNP ‘propaganda’?

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Speymouth February 1, 2021

“SNP blunder as £700k spent on ‘political propaganda’ thank-you letters” – Daily Express headline, January 25, 2021 Source

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  • Canmore Mapping
  • Outrun Speyside
  • Spey Bay GC
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  • SWT
  • Elgin Museum
  • Garmouth & Kingston GC
  • Speymouth Angling

History Links

  • Henry Robb's Shipyard A review of Speybuilt by Jim Skelton
  • Garmouth & Kingston Community Hub
  • Canmore Mapping Mapping of historical items including wrecks.
  • Elgin Museum Scotland’s oldest independent museum
  • Buckie & district heritage Loads of information on Buckie & the surrounding area
  • Friends of Purton A fantastic record of Speybuilt schooner Dispatch
  • Canmore Royal Commission on Ancient & Historical Monuments
  • The Book of Deer A site for the NE Scotland C10th illuminated manuscript, also contains a lot of history of the region.

Recent Posts

  • Film crews linked to Tom Holland blockbuster shut part of village harbour June 24, 2025
  • Princess Anne pictured during visit to Moray June 24, 2025
  • The Suicidal Nostalgia of the Anti–Net Zero Coalition June 24, 2025
  • Jail for man who grabbed partner by the neck and punched her June 24, 2025
  • Hotel Caledonia June 23, 2025
  • Weaponising Morality and the Zone of Interest June 22, 2025
  • The Scottish languages bill June 19, 2025
  • Boats linked to filming of Matt Damon blockbuster spotted in coastal town June 17, 2025
  • First direct flights from Aberdeen to Paris June 17, 2025
  • Clampdown on ‘cheeky’ motorists who use Elgin as an A96 shortcut June 17, 2025
  • ‘Incredible’: Scotland bucking international trend on foreign investment, study finds June 17, 2025
  • Scottish fishing body accuses David Attenborough of ‘propaganda’ over new film June 16, 2025
  • Scottish economy ‘to outstrip UK, France, and Germany in 2026’, top firm projects June 16, 2025
  • Awareness-Raising Protests Won’t Threaten the Richest, Most Well Armed People on Earth June 15, 2025
  • My mum, an update June 15, 2025
  • Cosmonauts and Stale Porridge, Alexander Trocchi’s Influence on Radical Scottish Media June 15, 2025
  • Our island community borrowed millions for a wind farm. Here’s how it went June 15, 2025
  • Commemorative whisky marks historic Highland Games decreed by Robert the Bruce June 15, 2025
  • The Beauty of Our Weapons June 13, 2025
  • Two suspected thieves walked off pushing a golfing trolley June 10, 2025

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