Dumfriesshire

But beyond the sphere of these monastic institutions, the state of matters from an agricultural point of view could hardly have been worse.

This was mainly due to the fact that, so far as Berwickshire and some parts of Dumfriesshire are concerned, the tiller of the soil was never sure that he would have the privilege of reaping his harvest.

By the time the grain was ready for the sickle, an English army might invade the country and give the crops to the flames.

This happened so frequently, and the feeling of insecurity thus became so great, that husbandry at times was all but abandoned.

Twenty-six long years had come and gone, and one day, as the laird of Biclu was passing along one of the streets of Edinburgh, little suspecting the fate which awaited him, he was fatally stabbed by the descendant of Cessford.

The borderers had many faults, but certainly they cannot be charged with having short memories.

But a still more striking illustration of the disastrous consequences of the deadly feud is to be found in the case of the Johnstons and Maxwells, two of the most prominent and powerful families in Dumfriesshire.

These two families were strong enough, had they been united, to have kept the whole district in good order.

Anlaf Godfresen brought help from Ireland and the great struggle began.

The course of the campaign is uncertain but if the site of its main battle, Runanbur, is to be identified with Birenzwark Hill in south-east Dumfriesshire, it would seem that Athelstan carried the war into the enemy's country.

The result of the battle was a complete victory for the forces of Athelstan and his brother Edmund.

Constantine's son, five kings, and seven jarls were among the slain.

As far as, uh, uh, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, uh, I'd never heard of this man.

He, he, he, uh, lived in, uh, a place called Samye Ling in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

And, uh, I had gone to England, uh, quite regularly as... for my bookstore, Shambhala Booksellers, to get books to bring there.

Uh, you know, order books from there, buy used books, and bring them to Berkeley, California.

The company behind Scotland's biggest data center proposal, and one of the largest in the world, is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative Party via a Caribbean tax haven, the Ferret revealed in the Sunday National this weekend.

CX Tech Limited has lodged plans for a 1,000 megawatt data center at the site of the former Chapelcross nuclear plant in Dumfriesshire, which could benefit from up to 23 million pounds in taxpayer support.

Company records show CX Tech's controlling shareholder is WPGSS Limited.

Sorry, these are not catchy names at all.

CxTech claimed it had no connection to any political party, and a spokesperson for Edwards said his political activities are entirely separate from CxTech and had played no part whatsoever in the planning application.

But another financial supporter of the party, Dermot Jenkinson, is a director and controller of SunLaws Development Company, which is behind plans for the 225-megawatt Southside data center near Duns on land owned by the Roxburgh Estate.

Tory politicians represent both the borders and Dumfriesshire in Holyrood and Westminster, and nine of their 12 MSPs voted against a recent Scottish Parliament motion to suspend decisions on new hyperscale data centers for up to 12 months until new planning guidance is in place.

The other three did not vote.

This will ensure the workload is reduced when 2028 comes around.

Pigstock Abattoir in Dumfriesshire.

During September, work started on the construction of a proposed new abattoir near Ecclefechan in Dumfriesshire.

The site marks the location for a new twenty-four million pound development by Pigstock Telford, which is being supported by a four point seven million investment from South of Scotland Enterprise.

Besides the creation of new jobs for the area, the new development will bring more competition into the beef processing sector and will also help to reduce transport costs for farmers in the region.

It is worth remembering that the manuscripts of the Dream of the Rood have a history which is typical of the history in general, the progress of Anglo-Saxon poetry, and the change of centre from Northumberland to Wessex.

Some verses of the poem are carved in runic letters on the Ruthwell Cross, now in the parish church of Ruthwell and Dumfrieshire, in the language of Northumberland, which was the language of Saedman and Bede.

The Ruthwell Cross, with the runic inscription on it, is thus one of the oldest poetical manuscripts in England, not to speak of its importance in other ways.

The Ruthwell verses are Northumbrian.

As winter, uh, approaches, the impact of this acute capacity crisis is being felt right through the local NHS.

Urgent action on delayed discharge is now vital to ensure that patients have the right access, uh, to care in the right place across Dumfriesshire.

So does the First Minister recognize the severity of the situation, and will he ask his ministers to work with local partners to take rapid steps to support health and social care services in Dumfries and Galloway?

First Minister.

But I've got a few budgie stories, but they're not very haunted, I have to say.

more clumsy clumsy related I guess so I've got one for you here this is a one about a phantom dog a phantom collie it was actually in a place it was kind of two stories but they're both collie related Dumfriesshire Dumfriesshire and it was put forward the story by a witness called Mary Craig and she stayed in a cottage in the countryside outside Dumfriesshire so it's very rural and her husband worked on the estate so he would literally you know do his job disappear for the day come back and that was it and she'd have tea ready and so forth and so forth But out of the window that day, she saw a man, who she didn't recognise, and a dog, a cuddly dog, wandering by.

And she thought, that's strange, didn't know who he was.

So she kind of looked out and thought, that's odd.