Aberdeenshire Blue Texel breeder, Stasa Moyse had a field day at a breed show and sale of Blue Texels at Carlisle, last weekend, selling the majority of lead priced lots including the top three at ...

But the precise shade of blue in the Saltire is about to become the subject of major debate in the Scottish parliament. MSPs are to be asked to rule on the correct shade of blue following a ...

The Princess of Wales attended the ceremony in Edinburgh today, wearing Saltire blue in a Catherine Walker coatdress. The wool crepe piece is the same one she donned for the Commonwealth Day ...

From that day the Saltire became the national flag of Scotland, making it possibly the oldest national flag in the world. It was later incorporated in the Union Flag, although the colour of blue ...

ROSES are red, violets are blue, for the hue of the saltire, only Pantone 549C8771B will do. Or so, apparently, says the Royal Navy, in its publication, issued in 1989 and revised a decade later ...

THE Scottish Parliament was petitioned yesterday by a retired accountant seeking a ruling on the correct shade of blue for the Saltire. Mr George Reid, aged 75, said the Saltire was the only ...

the Saltire, according to intriguing new research – but their optimism returns when confronted with a Union Jack. The University of Strathclyde found that the blue ensign provoked negative ...

A confident Mr Salmond, sporting his Saltire tie with a blue shirt, entered into his second TV debate with Alistair Darling, the head of the "No" campaign. Many pundits and pollsters reckoned the ...