He's in the Scots Guards.

Well, she has the best Scots accent.

Obviously, I'm very proud of all the Scots who've made the team.

You're a French police officer and yet you have a Scots accent.

Eilidh Doyle recalls a time when only two Scots made the GB team

Against Prince Charles? Those damned Scots are already on their way to England.

I. Masinimport v. Scottish Mechanical Light Industries Ltd., 1976, reported in Scots Law Times, p. 245, Outer House, Lord Keith).

The Commonwealth silver medallist, who will compete in the 400m hurdles at her fifth World Championships, says it's incredible 16 Scots are in the British team.

Orr and former Ryder Cup captain Sam Torrance are among six Scots in the field, the others being Andrew Oldcorn, Stephen McAllister, Bill Longmuir and Ross Drummond.

If I were to take that trip, I might have gone to Ireland to discover that my Irish ancestors were originally from Scotland. But where were the Scots from?

Why not also for England, for that matter? An equilibrium in which Scots vote on English laws but the English have no vote on Scottish laws will not remain an equilibrium for long.

48 British Yearbook of International Law 333 35 (1976 77) (citing Case No. I. Masinimport v. Scottish Mechanical Light Industries Ltd., 1976, reported in Scots Law Times, p. 245, Outer House, Lord Keith).

I was born in a Scots Presbyterian ghetto in Canada, and dropped out of high school. I don't own a cell phone, and I paint on paper using gouache, which hasn't changed in 600 years.

In Spain, there is a national debate about independence for Catalonia, where national identity is strengthened by the fact that the majority of the region s residents speak Catalan as well as Spanish. By contrast, only about 1 of Scots can speak Scottish Gaelic.

But the three main British political parties, and the Bank of England, have rejected this. If the Scots want sovereignty, they will need their own currency and their own central bank no British lender of last resort would be available to Scotland s banks.

LONDON Since I believe that the Scots are sensible, I think that they will vote no this week to independence. But, whichever way the vote goes, the spectacular rise of nationalism, in Scotland and elsewhere in Europe, is a symptom of a diseased political mainstream.

UK political leaders and many European governments are strongly urging the Scots to vote against independence. Scottish independence, the No campaign argues, would bring few if any of the claimed benefits on the contrary, it would cause many economic calamities, ranging from financial panics to the flight of jobs and industry from Scotland.

The Scots would almost certainly want to break away from England and rejoin the EU as an independent member, giving further encouragement (as if that were needed) to separatists in Catalonia and other frustrated European regions. England would be left to wave its flag of St. George over Wales and Northern Ireland, a rather sour prospect.

Westminster s writ no longer runs north of the border, at least as far as things like education and health are concerned. Equally, it is now far harder for Scots to blame a distant government in London for their problems, although the SNP will now try to make blaming Westminster for all ills even more of an art form.

Our bodies get Vitamin D from the sun, but as dermatologist Richard Weller suggests, sunlight may confer another surprising benefit too. New research by his team shows that nitric oxide, a chemical transmitter stored in huge reserves in the skin, can be released by UV light, to great benefit for blood pressure and the cardiovascular system. What does it mean? Well, it might begin to explain why Scots get sick more than Australians ...

True, Scotland s great minds in the age of Enlightenment, such as David Hume, Adam Smith, and even the national poet, Robert Burns, were all fervent advocates of Britishness, whatever that might mean today. Yet an identity based campaign could have resorted to the heritage of the Scottish Renaissance of the mid twentieth century or to the Celtic Revival and Celtic Twilight movements, which awakened a spirit of cultural nationalism among Scots in the late nineteenth century.