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Tom Wood with the wartime archive pictured at the site of one of the unexploded bombs in Portobello. Photo by Stephen Rafferty

Explosive discovery in wartime bombing archive

Details contained in the valuable archive were known only to a small circle of officials ...

By Stephen Rafferty, The Edinburgh Reporter

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Photo: Eagle Stone. Source: Kyle Chronical

Get to know Highland seers and “second sight”

There was a wright from Kinloch Rannoch who kept hearing planes and hammers at work, ...

By Silvia Muras & Elizabeth Lunardini, The Kyle Chronicle

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Swein MacDonald and isobel MacDonald. Photo courtesy of © Gaye MacDonald-Wilson

The mystical predications of the Highland Seer, Swein MacDonald

Swein MacDonald rose to fame in the 1970s for his mystical predictions, fueled by alcohol, ...
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