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With the exception of the British and French newspapers--the former all leading on the election of a new Parliament for Scotland, and the latter on France's troubles in Corsica--papers throughout Western Europe devoted their main front-page headlines to the NATO-Russia peace plan.
In June 2001 and again in December 2001, LSC Vice President for Programs Randi Youells participated in conferences that brought together leaders and visionaries from the legal services community in common law countries (Australia, England, New Zealand, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Canada and the United States along with Germany and the Netherlands) and Southeast Asian countries to discuss emerging legal issues, government and alternative funding sources, access, technology and other urgent concerns facing providers of legal services to poor clients around the world.
The Edinburgh-based James Thin has the largest bookstore in Scotland (on George Street, opposite the university buildings of Chambers Street).
While gardeners today make the distinction between heath and heather plants, these words are said to derive by separate paths from some ancient word for wasteland; heath via the Anglo-Saxon, and heather via Norse hadder . In Scandinavia, the plant itself is called lyng or ling , which is a common name in Yorkshire and northern England generally for what the Scots and Irish call heather . Ling is used as a name in parts of Scotland too, but this includes the rough grasses as well as the heathers that grow on the wasterland.
On 1 May 1707 England and Scotland were formally joined together by the “Act of Union” — establishing the Union of Parliaments — and the United Kingdom was born.
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