News about Robert Burns

It is a delicacy that is as popular with Scotland as shortbread and whisky. However, an English butcher has developed a haggis so good that it has won a world championship. Simon Broadribb, an award-winning meat processor, won top position in a prestigious international competition and called it a 'unbelievable' triumph.

The Kenmore village in Highland Perthshire (pictured) is the result of change, a complete re-drafting of the area to make it into a 'billionaires' playground,' according to critics. A 7,000-acre parcel of Scottish land will be unveiled as part of the US real estate corporation's new 'worlds.' To buy into it, eyewatering sums will be needed. Other 'worlds' - or "luxury lifestyle residential communities" have sprouted in the most coveted of locations in Florida, Hawaii, Bahamas, and Dubai, to name a few. However, the Perthshire 'world', with the magnificent Taymouth Castle as its centrepiece, is the first in the United Kingdom. It will have 167 new high-end homes for rent, each lining a private golf course that is currently landscaped on the former public golf course's site. It is predicted that in time it would be seeded with the 'American grass' that is so popular by foreign visitors.

The price tag on the Scottish mansion, which is £300,000, reflects the amount of work that must be done. The house is in disrepair, and the buyer will have to rebuild it into a new - and comfortable - family home. The house may even be snapped up by developers as it has planning permission to divide into five flats.

MARMION OF Mice and Men at Birmingham Rep. This is a good start, with the odd Woody Guthrie-ish folk tune. Steinbeck's remorseless script's longevity, however, is also a problem. Even as the title fades through time like a funeral bell, it's biblical clang derives from Robert Burns' ode to a mouse. However, it warns of the graft that awaits those who enter this tale of two drifters looking for farm jobs during the Great Depression.

According to experts, the Burns Night staple, which is described as Scotland's national dish, is twice as bad for the climate as opposed to your average dinner. Haggis, neeps, and tatties have a carbon footprint of 3.4 kilograms CO2e, although the vegetarian version, which uses vegetables and pulses in place of offal, has a CO2 equivalent of just 0.6 kilograms. Haggis were certainly invented by the English, according to Scottish food historians.

Chef Jeff Baker, who once worked for the late Queen, told FEMAIL the best ways to prepare a traditional Haggis, including how to bake or poach the traditional Scottish dish. His remarks came ahead of Burns night, which is a celebration of Scottish poet Robert Burns' life and poetry and is traditionally held on or near the poet's birthday, which takes place on or near the poet's birthday, January 25th.

As the Sun and Jupiter's relationship brings greater clarity, it's important to investigate the potential embedded in everyday activities. Robert Burns statues are more popular than any other secular figure, with Queen Victoria and Christopher Columbus exceptions. The Scot poet is celebrated around the world tonight, from New York to Canberra. It's a testament to how words can touch people's hearts.

Chantelle Newbery, the Queensland suburbs' most popular diving queen, is living with her two-year-old niece in a granny apartment behind a small rental unit. On Thursday, she could be seen wearing a stained T-shirt throwing a soiled nappy in a garbage bag outside the front door. Despite being invited inside the house, the gold medalist Olympian did not want to focus on her problems. When she captured Australia's first diving gold in 80 years in the Athens 10m platform in 2004, she captured a bronze as well as a silver. Robert, 44, her ex-husband, has also won two bronze medals at the same tournament. Both the couple divorced after the Olympics, with Robert embarking on a new path as a doctor, while the mother of two's life went into freefall.

Every year, Scotland's most popular poet Robert Burns is toasted on Burns Night - this year, it falls on Wednesday. With traditional Scottish dishes such as haggis, neeps, and tatties, commemorate the legendary poet. There are also variations on the classic, such as vegetarian 'haggis' wraps. Olly Smith recommends a wee dram of whisky to wash it down.

Even as many of Democrats condemned the change as anti-democratic, pumping millions to boost far-right presidential candidates in GOP primaries who they deemed as easier to beat in general elections. This year, Democratic groups unveiled a volatile new tactic by pouring over $50 million into ads boosting 13 Republican candidates who bet on being elected in a general election. Over tens of millions of dollars were raised by individual Democratic candidates. Democrats may have used the funds to secure a narrow majority, and the possibility that the far-right candidates they boosted might have risen to power were criticized. However, their efforts were rewarded in a number of races, with Republicans now seeing a more narrow majority than they had hoped for and a Senate with a majority that has yet to be determined.

A tumultuous neighbor, 62, who beat up an elderly man next door after the victim's wife called him a 'weirdo' in a petty parking dispute eight months before, was found guilty of common assault. Russell Jones (left), 62, assaulted Robert Burns, a 60-year-old man, out of a hairdressing salon, and rained down punches on his head, as the victim's spouse Wendy Burns (right) said, 'He is a sick man,' you'll murder him.' Jones, a resident of Garston, Liverpool, was forced to be dismissed by a passer-by, but he left Mr Burns with cuts around his elbows and bruising around his face. Following an altercation eight months earlier with Mrs Burns outside their terraced homes, the 62-year-old had been chastised. During the row, the father-of-one said that Mrs Burns branded him a "weirdo" and said, "I know about you and your daughter." She said he had made derogatory remarks about her son.

A striking 17th-century Scottish castle that was immortalized by poet Robert Burns has gone on sale for just under £1 million. Monboddo Castle in Fordoun, Kincardineshire, is best known for the birthplace and home of an eccentric 18th-century judge and scholar, James Burnett, Lord Monboddo. Burns had a connection to the family and penned the poem Elegy in their honor. Pictured: The historic castle, both exterior and interior, plus inset of 18th Century poet Robert Burns

Along the 'calmly winding' Union Canal, Tom Chesshyre travelled from Falkirk to Edinburgh by sea. He was impressed by the pubs en route, and he says the Bridge Inn at Ratho has stunning canalside views. He learned about the waterway's past at the Canal Museum in Linlithgow, along the way. The arrival into Edinburgh,' he says, is what really makes the Union Canal.'

On Thursday, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack and Defense Secretary Ben Wallace stood solemnly in dark uniforms at the raised platform on which the coffin rests. Both men are members of the Royal Company of Archers, which acts as Scotland's sovereign's bodyguard. The unit was also monitoring the coffin when it was in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh earlier this week.

The First Minister outlined how Peter Murrell stopped the dog, a puppy named Sandy, from chewing through a lamp switch at Balmoral when a light went to flasher. 'My husband jumped up and darted across the floor in the presence of Her Majesty,' she said.' The flashing light was discovered by the patron, who had guessed it.' Sandy, one of the Queen's young Corgis, was enjoying through a lamp switch. Fortunately, tragedy was delayed and Sandy emerged unscathed, but not before a tick was removed from his mistress's head.'

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Honours are dished out by Prime Ministers after they leave office. Often, the list isn't complete when they departed No. 10. 'So Boris must be tempted to scroll through his list before he resigns as Prime Minister,' says Honours' website. 'This will prevent his replacement as Prime Minister removing some of his tastier choices'