Donald Murray
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STRAIGHT TALKING: Reflections on Dunedin provide reminders of home (opens the original)
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One of the most striking aspects of being in Dunedin at the southern end of New Zealand is that there are moments when you can be easily deceived and fooled, mind and soul persuading individuals they have never left Scotland or indeed the surroundings of Shetland. Sometimes it is the height and slope of hills that convince you in coming to that conclusion. Sometimes it is the swirl of seas around shores. Sometimes it can be the structure of harbours, the boats and vessels that encroach our visio
STRAIGHT TALKING: Current uproar about the guga hunt is insulting and a distraction from what matters more - the death of seabirds from offshore wind turbines (opens the original)
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Fish and fowl, flights and ferries â over the last decade or more, I have seen a host of comments and reports about issues like these that affect the islands that whirl and exist around Scotlandâs mainland. All too often, many of these have been foul, insulting and misleading, criticising the inhabitants of locations all the way from Islay to Unst. Over the last while, this has once again become a major feature of island life. In this case, it has referred to my own native community, Ness at
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