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Capgemini – Create 500 IT Jobs in Inverness


Posted by Tartan Week on 29 Apr 2013 / 0 Comment



Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, is creating up to 500 new jobs in the Scottish Highlands as part of a plan that will see Inverness become one of the multinational company’s prime global centres of excellence for advanced IT. The development is strongly supported by the Scottish [...]

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First Minister Alex Salmond in NY to promote Homecoming 2014


Posted by Tartan Week on 04 Apr 2013 / 1 Comment



First Minister Alex Salmond is to attend Scotland Week in New York for the first time in five years. The First Minister last attended Scotland Week in 2008 and is returning this year to promote Scotland on the world stage through business and tourism engagements, as well as fulfil invitations to undertake a number of [...]

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Fashion

Buchanan Bespoke


Posted by Tartan Week on 18 Mar 2013 / 0 Comment



Buchanan Bespoke has been manufacturing bespoke, semi-bespoke and made-to-order footwear on the banks of the River Clyde since the late 1920′s, Our team of master shoemakers create luxury footwear using the finest leathers from Italy, materials sourced in the UK and quality leather soles, with every process in the manufacture taking place at our Scottish worshop. We [...]

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Homecoming 2014 – Calling All Pipe Bands!


Posted by Tartan Week on 06 Mar 2013 / 2 Comments



With the 700th Anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, the Commonwealth Games, Ryder Cup and other events Homecoming 2014, there are some great opportunities for pipe bands and individual players from all over the World to take part. Homecoming 2014 – you’re invited! If you are planning a band or individual trip to Scotland in [...]

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Barra: the second most stunning airport in the World!


Posted by Tartan Week on 30 Jan 2013 / 0 Comment



Barra Airport has recently been named as the second most stunning airport approach in the world. Private air charter Private Fly had compiled a list of 32 unusual airport approaches around the globe for travel fans and pilots to vote as the best to land on. The tiny Barra airstrip in the Outer Hebrides, which [...]

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VisitScotland’s Adorable New Recruits


Posted by Tartan Week on 29 Jan 2013 / 0 Comment



The “Visit Scotland” tourism campaign recently recruited two adorable new ambassadors to help promote the Year of Natural Scotland.   The tourism board is enticing visitors to Scotland by showcasing Scotland’s natural and historic beauty — its rolling green hills, rocky shorelines, and historic castles. But these two cuties, posing in their “winter woolies,” are [...]

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Heritage

The World’s Oldest Tartan!


Posted by Tartan Week on 04 Dec 2012 / 2 Comments



The National Museum of Scotland have discovered what could be the World’s earliest tartan, on a fragment of a bronze that once formed part of a Roman statue depicting a captured Caledonian warrior wearing tartan trews! The statue was erected around 1800 years ago. It is the earliest depiction of tartan in history. The bronze [...]

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Flying Scotsman – Heads to Nevada


Posted by Tartan Week on 12 Nov 2012 / 0 Comment



Scots cycling legend Graeme Obree aims to smash the world land speed record with a new “super bike” – built from parts of a Teflon cooking pot. The 47-year-old’s latest ­invention – dubbed The Beastie – was designed and built in the kitchen of his one-bedroom flat in Saltcoats, Ayrshire. He set two world hour [...]

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Scotland

Join the Scotland 10k Run in Central Park!


Posted by Tartan Week on 01 Feb 2012 / 4 Comments



Take part in the 9th Scotland 10k Run in Central Park, NYC, organised by the New York Road Runners and sponsored by the Scottish Government on April 7th 2012. Start the week with a healthy start! Events Diary

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Wallace letter returns to Scotland


Posted by Tartan Week on 12 Jan 2012 / 0 Comment



A 700-year-old letter believed to have once been in the possession of William Wallace has returned to Scotland. The letter has been held in England since being discovered in the Tower of London in the 1830s. It is now on long-term loan to the National Records of Scotland after an agreement was reached with The [...]

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Media

US Links to Declaration of Arbroath


Posted by Tartan Week on 03 Dec 2011 / 1 Comment



A rare copy of the Declaration of Arbroath has been gifted to the US National Archives by the Culture and External Affairs Secretary. In recognition of the historical connections between the American Declaration of Independence and Scotland’s most treasured document, a limited edition print of the Declaration of Arbroath was today presented by Fiona Hyslop [...]

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Media

Happy St Andrews Day!


Posted by Tartan Week on 30 Nov 2011 / 1 Comment



Statement by Secretary Clinton On the Occasion of Scotland’s St. Andrew’s Day  On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I am delighted to congratulate the people of Scotland as you celebrate St. Andrew’s Day this November 30. In Caledonian Societies and Scottish clubs from New York to Chicago, across America [...]

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