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Events from the year 2002 in Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]- First Minister and Keeper of the Great Seal – Jack McConnell
- Secretary of State for Scotland – Helen Liddell
Law officers
[edit]- Lord Advocate – Lord Boyd of Duncansby
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Elish Angiolini
- Advocate General for Scotland – Lynda Clark
Judiciary
[edit]- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Cullen of Whitekirk
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Gill
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord McGhie
Events
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- February – 2002 Winter Olympics: the gold medal in women's curling is won by an all-Scottish team representing Great Britain in Salt Lake City skipped by Rhona Martin.[1]
- 14 March – Stirling is granted city status in the United Kingdom by the Queen to mark her Golden Jubilee.[2]
- 10 February – the preschool television series Balamory made by BBC Scotland is first broadcast, nationally.
- 14 March – appeal of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against a conviction for murder in connection with the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie is rejected and the Scottish Court in the Netherlands is decommissioned.
- 19 March – a lesbian couple are granted parental rights over their children by an Edinburgh court.[3]
- 29 March – coal mining in Scotland, which has a history stretching back more than 800 years,[4] comes to an end with the closure of Longannet coal mine in Fife after its owners go into liquidation following flooding, putting more than 500 people out of work.[5]
- 1 May – Airdrieonians, of the Scottish Football League Division One, go into liquidation with debts of £3million.[6]
- 7 May – Prime Minister Tony Blair unveils a statue of Donald Dewar on Buchanan Street in Glasgow city centre.[7]
- May – the Scottish Parliament meets during this month in the University of Aberdeen.[8]
- 24 May – Falkirk Wheel boat lift opens in Scotland, also marking reopening of the Union Canal for leisure traffic.
- 28 May – the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 receives royal assent.
- 9 July – Clydebank F.C. of the Scottish Football League Second Division become defunct after a takeover by the owners of the new Airdrie United club, who take their place in the Scottish league.[9]
- 24 July – Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park created, Scotland's first national park.[10]
- 30 July – 2002 Glasgow floods result from heavy rain overnight.
- 1 August – the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002, that bans traditional fox hunting and hare coursing, comes into effect.
- Millennium Bridge, Glasgow, opens to pedestrians.
Deaths
[edit]- 8 March – Hamish Henderson, folk song collector (born 1919)
- 30 March – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother dies aged 101 at Royal Lodge, Windsor.[11]
- 27 May – Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, historian and palaeographer (born 1909)[12]
- 5 July – Jannette Anderson, academic (born 1927)
- 19 September – Rosalind Mitchison, historian (born 1919)
- October – William Dysart, actor (born 1929)
- 9 November – Neil MacCallum, political activist and poet (born 1954)
- 10 December – Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, director, and producer (born 1925)
The arts
[edit]- 24 September – soap opera River City is first broadcast on BBC One Scotland.
- The office of Edinburgh Makar is instituted, with poet Stewart Conn as first incumbent.[13]
- The indie rock band Franz Ferdinand is formed in Glasgow.
- David Greig's play Outlying Islands is premiered at the Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
- Peter Maxwell Davies composes his Piano Trio: A Voyage to Fair Isle.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Sweeping praise for curling team". BBC News. 22 February 2002. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ "Stirling elevated to city status". BBC News. 14 March 2002.
- ^ Hannah, Valerie (8 April 2002). "Family victory for lesbian couple: Mixed response to landmark ruling on parental rights". The Herald. Scotland. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
- ^ "Coal Mining in Scotland 1840-1920". Scan Education. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
- ^ "Grim future for deep coal mine". BBC. 29 March 2002.
- ^ "End for Airdrie". BBC News. 1 May 2002.
- ^ "Blair unveils Dewar memorial". BBC News. 7 May 2002. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ "Aberdeen successful in bid to host Scottish Parliament in May 2002". University of Aberdeen. 11 September 2001. Archived from the original on 23 January 2005. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ "Airdrie buy Bankies". BBC News. 9 July 2002.
- ^ "Scotland's first national park opens". The Guardian. London. 24 July 2002. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- ^ "2002: Queen Mother dies". BBC News. 30 March 2002. Retrieved 18 March 2009.
- ^ Ewan, Elizabeth L.; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Sian; Pipes, Rose (27 June 2007). Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen. Edinburgh University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-7486-2660-1.
- ^ "Edinburgh's Makars". Edinburgh, UNESCO City of Literature. City of Literature Trust. 2006. Archived from the original on 28 December 2008. Retrieved 25 February 2013.