5. TYPICAL FOOD IS…
Scottish cuisine is the specific set of cooking traditions, practices
and cuisines associated with Scotland. It has distinctive attributes and recipes of
its own, but shares much with wider British and European cuisine as a result of
local and foreign influences, both ancient and modern.Traditional Scottish dishes
exist alongside international foodstuffs brought about by migration.
Haggies, neeps and tatties
10. ANY HISTORICAL RELEVANT EVENT
This is aTimeline of Scottish history, comprising important legal and territorial
changes and political events in SCOTLAND and its predecessor states
20 century 21 century
1994 Local government reorganisation (replacing
the Regions and Districts with single-tier councils).
2004 Opening of the new Scottish Parliament
Building.
1996The Stone of Destiny is permanently
returned to Scotland, to be housed in Edinburgh
Castle.
2007 The Scottish National Party become the
largest party in the Scottish Parliament and forms
a minority government.
1997 Newly elected Labour UK Government under
the leadership of Scots-born Prime MinisterTony
Blair legislates for a referendum on a devolved
Scottish Parliament which is passed by a large
majority.
2011The Scottish National Party under Alex
Salmond gain an overall majority of the Scottish
Parliament.
1999 A Scottish Parliament sits for the first
time in 272 years. Donald Dewar of the Scottish
Labour Party elected as First Minister and forms
Scottish Executive in coalition with the Scottish
Liberal Democrats.
2012 Rangers FC enters liquidation process after
140 years of history
