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A lorne sausage roll

Bid for the Scottish morning roll to be given Unesco status

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Royal Champagne Hotel & Spa overlooking the Marne Valley vineyards

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Historic images of Perth's vennels, such as this 1950 photograph by W. Armstrong, form part of the exhibition. Picture: Culture Perth & Kinross

Exhibition shines light on medieval city streets

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John McGoldrick is on the shortlist for a prestigious prize

Paisley primary teacher on shortlist for $1 million education prize

Silent Night by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

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A first look CGI of the project to convert the townhouses on the corner of Princes Street and Hanover Street, Edinburgh.

Townhouses on Edinburgh’s most famous street to become 24 luxury apartments

The house is in a remote part of Scotland.

Remote former schoolhouse in Scotland on the markert for o/o £120,000

Arran, as seen from Kintyre, has been awarded Global Geopark Status by Unesco (Picture: RDImages/Epics)

Arran well worthy of international recognition as wondrous place it is Scotsman comment

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An Icelandic stopover makes a Nova Scotia adventure twice as nice

Plans have been submitted for 17-turbine wind farm close to Flow Country World Heritage Site

Plans for 17-turbine wind farm on the edge of world heritage site

A Christmas market

Must-see undiscovered festive markets just a ferry ride away

The Flow Country, straddling 200,000 hectares of the Highlands, was awarded world heritage status last month after decades of campaigning

Plans to test anti-personnel bombs on world heritage site dropped

Verbier and the Val de Bagnes in the summer. Credit: Lucia Harrison/Verbier Tourisme

Dodge the Verbier crowds and visit in the summer for great gastronomy

King Charles visits the Forsinard Flows Visitor Centre in Forsinard, after the Flow Country was granted World Heritage Site status (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

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King Charles III unveils the Flow Country World Heritage Site plaque

Best pictures of the Flow Country as King Charles visits

Going Green: Trees helping breath new life into the world

A virtual train crossing a virtual Forth Bridge.

Train Sim World 4: Games lets you drive a train over the Forth Bridge

Exclusive Scotland’s living heritage needs protection from film and tv 'misrepresentation'

WhatsApp icon on a smartphone. Phone: Nick Ansell/PA Wire

How mobile phone bans are generating a new 'buzz' in Scottish schools

Ceilidh dancing will be among the Scottish traditions set to be officially recognised.

Ceilidh dancing and Hogmanay set to be recognised as cultural traditions

View the Old Town from Gediminas Hill

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Famous poets like Robert Burns have offered Scots a worldwide legacy with his works like 'Auld Lang Syne' which means 'Old Long Since' in the Scots tongue.

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The curious rock formation, often known as just “the Praying Hands”, is nestled in the heart of one of Scotland’s most beautiful glens. (Photo: spodzone via Flickr)

Explainer Praying Hands in Scotland’s “longest, loneliest and loveliest” glen

Work has now started chainsawing the felled tree into sections for its removal (Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

Breaking Beloved Sycamore Gap tree to be cut up and removed from site

The Gaya Tumuli burial site in Korea.

‘Eurovision style voting’ for World Heritage List

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St Mark's square in Venice earlier this month.

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A man stands near a stretch of the Badaling Great Wall of China on the outskirts of Beijing. Authorities in China arrested the two men for smashing a path through a section of the ancient wall, a cultural icon and United Nations protected heritage site. Picture: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan

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The Isle of Man (sometimes referred to as just “Mann”) is a self-governing British Crown Dependency located in the Irish Sea.

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Welsh is the only Celtic language which is not considered endangered by UNESCO, even if it doesn’t have the highest number of speakers.

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The gold aureus celebrating the conquest in AD 43 was uncovered among the ruins of a suburb five kilometres north of the archaeological site in southern Italy’s Campania region.

Roman coin plucked from ashes of Pompeii sells for thousands

Bog cotton grows on the vast blanket bog during certain times of the year making parts of it turn white

A closer look at Scotland's vast and ancient peatland tipped for UNESCO status

The Old Scatness Iron Age Village, part of the Zenith of Iron Age Shetland, a collection of three ancient settlements dating back thousands of years, which has received Government backing to win Unesco World Heritage status. Picture: DCMS/PA Wire

Iron age settlement among seven UK sites given Unesco status backing

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Developed by the Tweed Forum environmental charity, the Eddleston Water project in the Scottish Borders has been chosen as a Unesco Ecohydrology Demonstration Site – the only one in the UK

Unesco designation for Scottish Borders river project

Edinburgh was named last year as a hotspot for overtourism in 2019. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Former culture chief blames heritage status for Edinburgh becoming ‘overwhelmed’

George Square Gardens has reopened as a festival venue for the summer.

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The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Hook Reef, in the Whitsunday region

Australia avoids Unesco downgrade of Great Barrier Reef

The annual event was created by UNESCO in 1995 (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is how to claim and use your £1 World Book Day voucher

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Ironbridge Gorge was designated a UNESCO world heritage site in 1986. (Picture: Shutterstock)

You could buy a world heritage site bungalow for just £1 - but there's a catch

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