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The Open: Robert MacIntyre proudly carries the Saltire at Sandwich

The Courier 14 Jul 2021

Robert MacIntyre is the only Scot playing at Sandwich, but that won’t make him shy away from the inevitable focus – instead he embraces the Saltire ... .

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Bipolar, self-trained cyclist Jonny Wale flying the Saltire

Scotsman 31 Mar 2018

It could be that the 26-year-old will compete for Scotland in the kilometre time trial in the Commonwealth Games next week only two years after he first raced ... It could be his Graeme Obree-esque relationship with the bike – his making and adapting them a key factor in his rise in the sport ... We had to change the way team pursuit was ridden.

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Whatever happened to the Saltire Prize?

BBC News 03 Feb 2018

By 2013, five companies were in the running for the big prize, overseen by an independent panel of experts sitting as the Saltire Prize challenge committee ... November 2015 - Scottish government says the Saltire Prize challenge committee, which oversees the award, is "considering options for reshaping the prize".

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Kapka Kassabova wins Scottish Book of the Year at the Saltire Literary Awards

Scotsman 02 Dec 2017

The Saltire Society Literary Awards are supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland and ... The winner of each individual award wins a £2,000 cash prize and goes forward to be considered for the Saltire Book of the Year award and an accompanying cash prize of £3,000.

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Why is the Scottish flag called the Saltire and what is the Lion Rampant flag?

Metro 30 Nov 2017

St Andrew is often depicted with the Saltire Cross, as he was crucified on an X shaped cross, on November 30, 60 AD (saltire literally just meaning a diagonal cross) ... So the Saltire cross is on the Scottish flag, in white on a blue background, because King Angus saw the X in the sky in his dream.

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'My bones are tattooed with the Saltire' Joanna Lumley speaks about her little-known Scottish roots

Daily Record 02 Jul 2017

She was born in India but says her bones are tattooed with the Saltire as she travels India for a new TV show. ... .

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Sussex boy happy to fly the saltire

Scotsman 21 May 2017

Day after day, with the occasional evening thrown in, Stu Whittingham devoted himself to one drill after another, even to the point where repetition threatened to sap his will. Cracking county cricket, with the many chasing few jobs, requires dedication but this was devotion above the norm ... The accent does not make him an obvious Caledonian recruit.

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Alex Salmond gave a lecture to celebrate the Saltire Society's 80th anniversary

Topix 24 Sep 2016

Former first minister Alex Salmond has warned that a "full English Brexit" would harm Scotland's economy and cultural health. The SNP foreign affairs spokesman also accused Prime Minister Theresa May of using the position of EU citizens as a "human shield" in negotiations ... .

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Tesco ditches the saltire from its strawberries for a Union flag after complaints

Indonesia News 23 Aug 2016

Tesco sparked a social media storm after it announced it would replace the Scottish Saltire on its strawberries with a Union flag ... .

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'Is it casualracism?': Scottish outrage as Tesco ditches the saltire from its strawberries for a ...

Indonesia News 23 Aug 2016

Tesco sparked a social media storm after it announced it would replace the Scottish Saltire on its strawberries with a Union flag ... .

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Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is flying the Saltire (Southend on Sea Borough Council)

noodls 15 Sep 2014

Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is flying the Saltire flag at the Civic Centre, ahead of next week's Scottish independence referendum. Southend-on-Sea Borough Council is flying the Saltire flag at the Civic Centre, ahead of next week's ...

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Councillors raise the Saltire (Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council)

noodls 10 Sep 2014

Wirral Council's Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat groups raised the Saltire at Wallasey Town Hall ahead of the 18th September referendum, when voters north of the border will decide if they support the idea of an independent Scotland ... We're raising the Saltire to give our ...

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Are you heeding Ed Miliband's call to fly the Saltire across the UK?

The Guardian 09 Sep 2014

Liverpool City Council leader ...

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Redbridge to fly the Saltire (Redbridge London Borough Council)

noodls 09 Sep 2014

Confirming that Redbridge Town Hall will be flying the Saltire alongside the Union Flag ahead of the Scottish Referendum, Cllr Wes Streeting, Deputy Leader of the Council, said,. "The outcome of the Scottish ...

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Scottish Independence: What does the Saltire flag symbolise?

The Independent 09 Sep 2014

The Saltire is the flag of St Andrews, a white diagonal; cross on a blue field, supposedly the Christian symbol for the crux decussate, the shape on which the saint was crucified ... struggled, because the Saltire wasn’t theirs.