Tag: BBC News

  • Writer sought to gather Dumfries and Galloway folklore

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    From BBC News, South Sotland: A writer is being sought to gather and retell folklore, myths, legends and tales about Dumfries and Galloway. The initiative is being organised by the Wigtown Book Festival with funding from Fresh Start for the Arts. It has been loosely inspired by John Mactaggart’s work of 1876, the Scottish Gallovidian…

  • Radical New Model of Earth’s Core

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    Simon Redfern tackles new ideas about the earth’s core puzzle in BBC News: Seismic data indicate that the western and eastern hemispheres of Earth’s inner core differ, and this has led some to suggest that the core was once subjected t an impulse – presumably from the collision of a space rock or planetoid which…