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So Near And Yet So Far
WHERE in Britain can you find Ginnicks, Turks, Caterpillars, Thorns and Bulldogs? The answer, of course, is the Isles of Scilly (never, please, the Scilly Isles). These are the nicknames given to Scillonians who live on the five inhabited islands: St
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The Highlands
COMPRISING ancient rocks from Cambrian and Precambrian times that were uplifted to form a mountain chain during the later Caledonian orogeny, the Highlands and Islands of Scotland lie to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which runs f
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