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Travel Postcard - 48 hours in Edinburgh

April 26, 2013 15:00
By Mark Meadows EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Which city has two central if extinct volcanoes, one of which is topped by the most precariously positioned castle imaginable? It is not somewhere high in the Andes or on an Indonesian island, instead it is the elegant and laidback Edinburgh. The Scottish capital exudes class but also knows how to have a good time - especially during its world famous arts festival in August and the New Year's Eve "Hogmanay" extravaganza.

Britain's most successful Olympian Hoy retires

April 18, 2013 07:45
LONDON (Reuters) - Six-times Olympic champion Chris Hoy, who spearheaded a golden period of British track cycling dominance, announced his retirement on Thursday content that he had nothing left to prove after a long and stellar career. Britain's most successful Olympian, who won two golds at the 2012 London Games to add to three from Beijing four years earlier and his first in Athens in 2004, said the time was right to quit the saddle having exhausted "every last ounce of effort and energy".

Glasgow Rangers launch inquiry into CEO Green

April 15, 2013 05:00
LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish football club Glasgow Rangers have launched an inquiry into the conduct of Chief Executive Charles Green over reports he had links to the former owner who presided over the club's collapse last year. Former Rangers owner Craig Whyte has said in recent days that he was secretly involved in the takeover of Rangers last year by a consortium led by Green. Whyte was the majority shareholder in Rangers, 54 times Scottish champions, when they went into administration in February 2012.

RugbyU: Scotland's Walker to join Edinburgh

March 27, 2013 08:00
Scotland wing Nikki Walker will leave Premiership side Worcester at the end of the season after agreeing a deal to join Celtic League club Edinburgh. Walker, who only moved to Worcester from Ospreys last year, has been granted an early release from his contract to allow him to take the opportunity to head back home to Scotland. "I have enjoyed my time in Worcester, but an opportunity has arisen for my family and I to return home to Scotland," Walker said. "This opportunity was too big for us to turn down."

Scottish wind farm decision infuriates Trump

March 26, 2013 16:15
LONDON (Reuters) - Eleven giant wind turbines are to be built off the east coast of Scotland, the government announced on Tuesday, a move that has infuriated U.S. billionaire Donald Trump who says they will spoil the view from his nearby state-of-the-art golf course. Trump completed the first phase of his 750 million pound course at Menie near Aberdeen in 2010 after a fierce battle with conservationists who accused him of ruining a pristine coastal site.

British lawmaker released after second bar brawl

March 15, 2013 20:46
A British lawmaker, suspended from the opposition Labour Party for fighting in a House of Commons bar, was released Friday following an alleged brawl in another parliamentary watering hole. Eric Joyce, 52 -- the member of parliament for Falkirk in Scotland, who now sits as an independent -- told reporters he had not been charged but had no other comment to make as he left a London police station.

RugbyU: Lamont urges Scots to make good on Johnson gains

March 8, 2013 11:31
Scotland veteran Sean Lamont wants the side to launch a new era by beating Wales at Murrayfield on Saturday and thereby cement the progress already made under Australian interim coach Scott Johnson. Back-to-back wins over Italy and Ireland under Johnson have left Scotland level on points with second-placed Wales heading into this weekend's Six Nations Championship clash between the Celtic rivals. However, the 12-8 win over Ireland saw Scotland defy rugby logic in a match where the losers had more than 70 percent territory and possession.

Rugby-Scotland centre De Luca facing Six Nations blow

January 11, 2013 10:15
LONDON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Scotland centre Nick De Luca could miss most or all of the Six Nations championship after undergoing surgery to a fractured eye socket. De Luca, capped 38 times, suffered the injury in training with his club side Edinburgh in December and will be out for around two months. "The damage required time to settle for full assessment," Edinburgh said in a statement on Friday. "It was deemed that the operation would be the best course of action to support the quickest return to playing,"
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