2006 in Scotland

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See also

2005-06 in Scottish football

2006-07 in Scottish football

2006 in Scottish television

Portal:Current events

2006

2006 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Monarch Elizabeth II
• First Minister and Keeper of the Great Seal Jack McConnell

Events

January

• January 1 - Transport Scotland begins operations as an agency of the Scottish Executive.^[1]
• January 7 - Charles Kennedy, leader of the Liberal Democrats resigns after revelations that he has a drinking problem.^[2]

February

• February - National Theatre of Scotland established as a peripatetic company.
• February 9 - Dunfermline and West Fife by-election: Willie Rennie of the Liberal Democrats is the winner, the first time the Labour Party have ever lost a seat they were defending to the Liberal Democrats, the SDP or the Liberal Party at a Scottish by-election

March

• March 2
  • Sir Menzies Campbell is elected leader of the Liberal Democrats following an election caused by the resignation of Charles Kennedy.
  • Four people are injured in an explosion in a GlaxoSmithKline factory in Irvine, North Ayrshire.
• March 15–26 - Scotland at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
• March 28 - Royal Regiment of Scotland created.

April

• April 27 - Moray by-election: Richard Lochhead holds the seat in the Scottish Parliament for the Scottish National Party.^[3]

May

• May 30 - Scottish TV and Grampian TV both relaunched under the new name of STV.

June

July

• Sheridan v News International.

August

• 21 August – The first modern solely Gaelic-medium school to offer secondary education, Sgoil Gh idhlig Ghlaschu, is opened at Woodside in Glasgow.^[4]
• The Scottish Crossbill is finally confirmed as a unique species.^[5]

September

• September 3 - Establishment of Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement, a breakaway from the Scottish Socialist Party.

October

• 5 October - Rt. Hon. Elish Angiolini, QC, appointed as Lord Advocate. She is the first woman, first Procurator Fiscal, and the first solicitor to be appointed to the post.

November

• 8 November - Three men of Pakistani origin sentenced to life imprisonment for the racist murder of Kriss Donald in Glasgow.
• 25–26 November - Aberdeen Cup tennis tournament.^[6]

Organisations established

• National Theatre of Scotland
• Royal Regiment of Scotland
• Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement
• STV
• Transport Scotland

Organisations disestablished

• King's Own Scottish Borderers
• The Royal Scots

Deaths

• January 5- Rachel Squire, Labour MP (b. 1954)
• January 31- Moira Shearer, ballet dancer and actress (b. 1926)
• February 10- John Prentice, football player and manager (b. 1926)
• February 28- Hugh McCartney, former Labour MP (b. 1920)
• March 3- Ivor Cutler, poet, songwriter and humourist (b. 1923)
• March 13- Jimmy Johnstone, footballer; member of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame (b. 1944)
• March 21- Margaret Ewing, Scottish National Party MSP and former MP (b. 1945)
• March 27- Ian Hamilton Finlay, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
• April 9 - Robin Orr, composer (b. 1909)
• April 13 - Muriel Spark, novelist (b. 1918)
• April 17 - Calum Kennedy, singer (b. 1928)
• May 17 - Eric Forth, former Conservative MP (b. 1944)
• July 6 - Tom Weir, climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914)
• August 30 - Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, former Conservative and Unionist MP (b. 1922)
• September 15 - Douglas Henderson, former Scottish National Party MP (b. 1935)

References

1. ↑ Transport Scotland Freedom of Information (FoI) Publication Scheme www.transportscotland.gov.uk, accessed 26 September 2011
2. ↑ Embattled Kennedy quits as leader BBC News, 7 January 2006
3. ↑ SNP sweeps to v ictory in by-election Moray majority rises as Tory hopes dashed www.heraldscotland.com, 28 April 2006
4. ↑ Opening day for new Gaelic school BBC News, 21 August 2006
5. ↑ "Status of 'UK's only endemic bird species' confirmed", RSPB Scotland
6. ↑ Aberdeen Cup 2006

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 2006 in the United Kingdom