Today is no ordinary day in Boring, Oregon. For tonight, Boring people vote on whether they'd like to pair up with Dull folks.

It's up to the town's planning organization to decide whether or not to accept an offer of partnership from the village of Dull in Perthshire, central Scotland.

A passenger plane came within seconds of a deadly collision when it got caught up in a simulated military attack over a Scottish airport last July, British media is reporting.  A

Civil Aviation Authority investigation into the incident has found that the civilian plane’s pilot was forced to take evasive action when he got a warning that two Tornado GR4 warplanes were in his path, the Daily Mail reports. On his second attempt at landing, the pilot spotted two Black Hawk helicopters that air traffic control had not warned him about.

“As he prepared for a routine landing at a tiny island airport, a warning that there were a couple of tornadoes on the way was possibly the last thing the pilot expected,” the newspaper says.

The investigation heard that the 37-seat passenger plane was in the middle of a simulated attack involving 14 international military aircraft near Stornoway Airport on the Isle of Lewis.

“Those Tornados just got a wee bit too close for us," the report quotes the civilian pilot as saying to the air traffic controller, according to the BBC.

The investigation concluded that the exercise should have been aborted when the passenger plane came in to land, and cited a “breakdown in communication” for the incident.

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond chose Burns Night, the national celebration of Scotland's greatest poet, to publish a consultation paper, "Your Scotland, Your Referendum," which is the first step of the legislative process that will lead, ultimately to a vote in autumn 2014 on Scottish independence.