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The site of the largest meteorite to hit the British Isles has finally been discovered in a remote part off the Scottish coast, 11 years after scientists first identified evidence of the massive collision. A team of researchers from the Department of Earth…

Evidence for the ancient, 1.2 billion years old, meteorite strike, was first discovered in 2008 near Ullapool, NW Scotland by scientists from Oxford and Aberdeen Universities. The thickness and extent of the debris deposit they found suggested the impact crat…

Image copyrightThinkstockImage caption Artwork: If confirmed it would be the biggest impact recorded on what is now the British Isles Scientists think the time has come for a full geophysical survey of The Minch, to see if the Scottish strait is hiding an …

Boris Johnsons plan to hold back the £39bn owed to the EU is pathetic coming from one of those most personally responsible for wasting nearly three times that amount on Brexit without a plan. Isnt the whole point (if there is one) that a handful of self-serv…

Scotland's government has warned Ireland that it will send patrol vessels this weekend to guard a 19-kilometer (12-mile) fishing zone around a tiny disputed islet in the Atlantic Ocean. Scotland said it would take the "enforcement action" after an increase i…

Irish fishing vessels have ignored a warning of "enforcement action" from Scotland's government against "illegal" trawling in a 19-kilometer (12-mile) fishing zone around a tiny disputed islet in the Atlantic Ocean. Irish public broadcaster RTE reported on S…

When I was growing up in London in the 1970s and 1980s, it was fashionable among those on the left to talk about how a denuded UK had essentially become the United States’ 51st state. The implication was that a post-imperial, cash-strapped, diplomatically and…

Many kings of Europe have existed who were absolutely essential to the development of the continent. From Byzantine emperors to kings of countries such as England, Spain, and France, being a ruler must have been a mantle which not everyone was ready to live u…

A Victorian country manor that used to be a prison for 85 inmates has been put on the market as a luxury home for £2.6million. Penninghame House near Newton Stewart in Dumfries, Scotland, was run by the Prison Service for 50 years until it was forced to clos…

(CNN) While there are plenty of awe-inspiring man-made destinations around the globe, nothing is as creative as nature. From trees that resemble monsters, to colorful sinkholes, towering rock formations and waterfalls of molten lava, these are some of the mo…