2006 in Scotland
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Events from the year 2006 in Scotland.
Contents
Incumbents
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- Monarch — Elizabeth II
- First Minister and Keeper of the Great Seal — Jack McConnell
- Secretary of State for Scotland — Alistair Darling until 5 May; then Douglas Alexander
Law officers
- Lord Advocate — Lord Boyd of Duncansby; then Elish Angiolini
- Solicitor General for Scotland — Elish Angiolini; then John Beckett
- Advocate General for Scotland — Lynda Clark; then Lord Davidson of Glen Clova
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Hamilton
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Gill
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord McGhie
Events
January
- 1 January — Transport Scotland begins operations as an agency of the Scottish Executive.[1]
- 7 January — 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.
- 9 February — 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
- 2 March —
- 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.
- 15–26 March — Scotland at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
- 28 March — Royal Regiment of Scotland created.
April
- 27 April — Moray by-election: Richard Lochhead holds the seat in the Scottish Parliament for the Scottish National Party.[3]
May
- 30 May — Scottish TV and Grampian TV both relaunched under the new name of STV.
July
August
- 1 August — Gregory Burke's play Black Watch is first performed, by the National Theatre of Scotland at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe'
- 21 August — The first modern solely Gaelic-medium school to offer secondary education, Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu, is opened at Woodside in Glasgow.[4]
- Scotland's first offshore wind turbine is installed in the Beatrice Wind Farm, 24 km (15 mi; 13 nmi) offshore in the Moray Firth.
- The Scottish crossbill is finally confirmed as a unique species.[5]
September
- 3 September — Establishment of Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement, a breakaway from the Scottish Socialist Party.
- 18 September — The Clyde Arc, a pedestrian/cycle bridge over the River Clyde at Finnieston, is officially opened and named.
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]
- 30 November — Residents of Benbecula take control of a large part of the island in a community buy-out.
Organisations established
- National Theatre of Scotland
- Royal Regiment of Scotland
- Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement
- STV
- Transport Scotland
Organisations disestablished
Deaths
- 5 January — Rachel Squire, Labour MP (born 1954)
- 31 January — Moira Shearer, ballet dancer and actress (born 1926)
- 9 February — Ena Lamont Stewart, playwright (born 1912)
- 10 February — John Prentice, football player and manager (born 1926)
- 28 February — Hugh McCartney, Labour MP (born 1920)
- 3 March — Ivor Cutler, poet, songwriter and humourist (born 1923)
- 13 March — Jimmy Johnstone, footballer; member of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame (born 1944)
- 21 March — Margaret Ewing, Scottish National Party MSP and former MP (born 1945)
- 27 March — Ian Hamilton Finlay, writer, artist and gardener (born 1925)
- 9 April — Robin Orr, composer (born 1909)
- 13 April — Muriel Spark, novelist (born 1918)
- 17 April — Calum Kennedy, singer (born 1928)
- 8 May — Iain Macmillan, photographer and author (born 1938)
- 17 May — Eric Forth, Conservative MP (born 1944)
- 6 July — Tom Weir, climber, author and broadcaster (born 1914)
- 30 August — Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, Conservative and Unionist MP (born 1922)
- 3 October — Lucilla Andrews, romantic novelist (born 1919 in Egypt)
- 15 September — Douglas Henderson, Scottish National Party MP (born 1935)
Arts
- Hamish MacDonald self-publishes The Willies and Idea in Stone.
See also
References
- ↑ Transport Scotland Freedom of Information (FoI) Publication Scheme www.transportscotland.gov.uk, accessed 26 September 2011
- ↑ Embattled Kennedy quits as leader BBC News, 7 January 2006
- ↑ SNP sweeps to v ictory in by-election Moray majority rises as Tory hopes dashed www.heraldscotland.com, 28 April 2006
- ↑ Opening day for new Gaelic school BBC News, 21 August 2006
- ↑ "Status of 'UK's only endemic bird species' confirmed", RSPB Scotland
- ↑ Aberdeen Cup 2006
