List of events
Events from the year 2011 in Scotland.
Events
January
- 1 January – The United Nations is to examine claims of ownership of the Scottish island of Rockall, after a request from Denmark, which has sovereignty over the neighbouring Faroes[1][2]
- 1 January – A soldier serving with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is killed in an explosion near to the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand Province, in Afghanistan[3]
- 1 January – approximately 140 people take part in the annual Loony Dook in the Firth of Forth, at South Queensferry[4]
- 2 January – At the Old Firm game, Rangers and Celtic, represented by John Greig and Billy McNeill respectively, pay their respects to the 66 victims of the Ibrox Disaster in 1971[5]
- 2 January – The Montenegrin Embassy in London writes to Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray, correcting factual inaccuracies and asking him to explain comments he made during First Minister's Questions in December 2010, about the country being involved in "war crimes", "ethnic cleansing" and "a United Nations peace-keeping mission"[6][7]
- 2 January – The publishers of the Sunday Herald newspaper announce that it is to be relaunched as a weekly news magazine[8]
- 3 January – Gary Anderson is the runner-up at the World Darts Championship[9]
- 5 January – The Rosyth – Zeebrugge ferry service, the country's only direct ro-ro ferry route to mainland Europe, re-opens as a freight-only service[10]
- 5 January – A rare bittern (Botaurus stellaris), which last bred in the country c. 1830, is sighted at RSPB Scotland's Insh Marshes nature reserve in Strathspey[11]
- 18 January – The installation of replicas of the 37 Stirling Heads is completed at the King's Inner Hall at Stirling Castle
- 23 January – an earthquake measuring 3.5 magnitude is recorded at Glenuig, 25 miles (40 km) west of Fort William[12]
- 25 January – Andy Gray is dismissed from Sky Sports[13]
- 26 January – Tommy Sheridan is sentenced to three years in prison for lying on oath during the Sheridan v News International case in 2006[14]
- 27 January – the Scotland Bill receives an unopposed second reading in the House of Commons, with the Secretary of State for Scotland Michael Moore describing the legislation as the largest transfer of fiscal powers from central Government since the creation of the United Kingdom.[15]
- 27 January – a Tornado GR4 jet from RAF Lossiemouth ditches in Loch Ewe, with the 2 crew ejecting shortly before the crash[16]
- 29 January – a climber survives after falling 1000 feet from Sgurr Choinnich Mor, part of the Grey Corries range in Lochaber[17]
February
March
April
May
This is the first time ever that any party has secured a majority since devolution was established in 1999.[21]
June
July
August
- 10 August – Police from Scotland are being sent to England to help combat riots and disorder.[29]
- 31 August – Critics of the proposed £400,000,000 Aberdeen bypass, who have already delayed the project since it won approval in December 2009, decide to press ahead with a fresh legal challenge after a recent appeal at the Court of Session was rejected.[30]
September
October
- 12 October – Insurance companies fail in a legal bid to scrap the right of people in Scotland to claim damages for an asbestos-related condition that had been legislated for by the Damages (Asbestos-related Conditions) (Scotland) Act 2009.[33]
- 13 October – BP has been given the go ahead to proceed with a new £4.5bn oil project west of the Shetland Islands.[34]
- 19 October – Discovery of the Port an Eilean Mhòir boat burial, the UK mainland's first fully intact Viking ship burial site, at Ardnamurchan in the western Scottish Highlands, is announced.[35]
- 20 October – A BBC Scotland investigation claims to have uncovered evidence of alleged criminality in the past business dealings of the new owner of Rangers, Craig Whyte.[36]
- 25 October – Scottish gun crime falls to 32-year low.[37]
- 26 October – Labour MP Ian Davidson, chairman of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee apologises for 'any offence that might have been caused' after SNP MP Dr Eilidh Whiteford accused him of threatening that she would get "a doing" if discussions from a behind-closed-doors meeting of the committee were leaked to the media.[38]
- 27 October – Edinburgh City Council vote to proceed with plans for a Gaelic school in the city.[39]
November
December
Undated