Alison Campsie Journalist
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Alison is a journalist at The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday.

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The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday

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251 Articles
over 1 year ago
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'Bucket list' St Kilda to tackle growing visitor numbers

Growing visitor numbers to St Kilda amid a rise in day trippers and cruise ship passengers are set to be addressed to...

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over 1 year ago
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The last count on St Kilda as census captures island life for final time

It was the last census taken on St Kilda of the last community to call it home.

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over 1 year ago
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Scotland's 1921 census: Unrest, poor times, women's rights and a one-hour-old baby

Door-by-door and street-by-street, it tells us who made up Scotland just over a 100 years ago, from the youngest citi...

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over 1 year ago
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First Minister claims independence movement 'galvanised' ahead of Glasgow rally

Independence supporters have marched through Glasgow in light of Supreme Court’s ruling that a second referendum cann...

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over 1 year ago
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Finn Creaney: Wife of missing bushcraft expert speaks of hope of getting 'lovely, lovely person' ...

The wife of missing bushcraft expert Finn Creaney has spoken of her hopes of finding her husband eight months after h...

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over 1 year ago
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More than 8,000 silver coins discovered in Scottish field

More than 8,000 silver medieval coins have been found in a field by a metal detectorist in one of the biggest discove...

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over 1 year ago
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A huge day for humanity and a Scot's role in helping people back to the moon

As the world’s most powerful rocket split the dark skies over Cape Canaveral on Wednesday in a blinding show of sound...

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over 1 year ago
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Woman who created the world's most valuable whisky more than 100 years ago remembered on film

A woman who took the reigns of a Speyside distillery more than 100 years ago following the death of her husband and w...

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over 1 year ago
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Time finally called on Local Hero pub as owner revamps legendary film bar

It starred as a friendly, smoke-filled Scottish pub where the large drams and pints of McEwans flowed all night long.

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over 1 year ago
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Global appeal underway to save Scottish island cemetery from 'falling into the sea'

An island cemetery is at risk from ‘falling into the sea’ with a race now on to protect the graves from the forces of...

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over 1 year ago
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Wanted: New owners for campsite on Scottish holiday island

It is being presented as a chance to grab a new lifestyle on a Scottish holiday island.

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over 1 year ago
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Halloween: The 'intriguing and unsettling' Scottish island tradition of skekling

As winter came, the skeklers moved from house to house, dancing around the fire and banging wooden staves on the floo...

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