Steven Brocklehurst

1 month ago | bbc.com | Steven Brocklehurst

When the Queen served drop scones for a US president at BalmoralSteven BrocklehurstLook back at President Eisenhower's visit to BalmoralUS president Donald Trump has been invited to meet King Charles in Scotland to discuss an unprecedented second state visit to the UK.

Nov 8, 2024 | yahoo.com | Steven Brocklehurst

With Donald Trump being elected to be the US president for the second time we look back at his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who was born and brought up on the Hebridean island of Lewis but emigrated to New York to live a very different life. Mary Anne was one of tens of thousands of Scots who travelled to the US and Canada in the early years of the last century looking to escape economic hardship at home.

Aug 1, 2024 | yahoo.com | Steven Brocklehurst

Steven Brocklehurst - BBC NewsAugust 1, 2024 at 2:17 AM·1 min readThe number of people living alone in Scotland has increased by more than 100,000 since 2011, according to new figures from the census. The latest release of data from the 2022 census shows there were 2,509,300 households in Scotland, up 5.8% on a decade earlier. The increase was mostly due to a 106,700 increase in single-person households - up 13.0%.

Jun 1, 2024 | yahoo.com | Steven Brocklehurst

Police Scotland's failings led to "almost incomprehensible" suffering for a young woman who was trapped in a car with her dead partner for three days, a fatal accident inquiry has said. Lamara Bell lay terribly injured but conscious at the bottom of an embankment off the M9 motorway near Stirling for days despite a call being made to police hours after the crash. Ms Bell's partner John Yuill, who was driving the car, died soon after the crash in July 2015.

Mar 28, 2024 | yahoo.com | Steven Brocklehurst

Peter McAleese, the mercenary soldier who took part in a daring attempt to kill the Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar, has died at the age of 81. The Scot led a team of British mercenaries who, in 1989, travelled to the criminal empire of the world's most dangerous man in order to assassinate him. Escobar was the leader of the Medellin drugs cartel in Colombia and one of the wealthiest villains in history.