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Glasgow, Scotland, is formally selected as the host city of the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
2024-09-17

The Cabinet Office announces that eight British towns will become cities as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. The new cities are Milton Keynes, Colchester, and Doncaster in England, Dunfermline in Scotland, Wrexham in Wales, and Bangor in Northern Ireland, as well as Stanley, Falkland Islands, and Douglas, Isle of Man, which become the first towns in the British Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies, respectively, to receive city status.
2022-05-20

Scotland lifts their law mandating face coverings in shops, restaurants and public transport.
2022-04-18

Storm Malik impacts the British Isles, killing two people, and causing widespread damage in Scotland and Northern England.
2022-01-29

Students in P1 to P3 return to school in Scotland for the first time since the Christmas holiday as part of a phased school reopening.
2021-02-22

Philip Dilley, chairman of the UK's Environment Agency resigns after receiving heavy criticism for not returning from a family holiday in Barbados during the recent heavy floods in Northern England and Scotland.
2016-01-11

An unknown number are dead as a result of a police helicopter that crashed into a crowded pub on the north bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
2013-11-29

An 18 year old man in the Shetland Islands of Scotland is arrested on suspicion of launching multiple distributed denial of service attacks in association with LulzSec and Anonymous.
2011-07-27

Major British supermarkets and online stores stop taking orders in Scotland in the run up to Christmas, because of a backlog of deliveries caused by the recent adverse weather conditions.
2010-12-13

A letter is unveiled demonstrating how Robert Burns was "reduced and shattered" in his final days; it will soon be exhibited in Edinburgh, Scotland.
2010-08-3