what secrets lie behind small. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. w world heritage 360 you get the map now. scotland is wild expansive and beautiful. a land of breathtaking countryside. bustling city. of kabul of life and of course full of scots many of whom are wondering these days what it actually means to be scottish. there's always that sense of community in the cheekiness that you get from scottish people and i pride myself on not people just telling you how they feel they don't go about it said in

an awful lot of mine are the worst over states all different life to. doing one thing i think is wrong or the other way from up to the many scots feel they are fundamentally different from their english neighbors and want to be governed differently as well particularly since breakfast. once grounded mainly in the realm of folklore the idea of the scottish character may now have serious political ramifications for the united kingdom. when. the 24. year old sophie galt doesn't need

a home office her workplace is already isolated and very well ventilated. it's in the middle of scotland in the heart of the highlands at the foot of ben alder. so if he spends the whole day outdoors among the mountains logs and more land. it's. the. time. feeding the horses is also one of her tasks and even unskilled workers can help out. hangers on the others are already waiting . in the summer the working ponies carry the deer carcasses down the mountain.

in winter they need more to eat than the barren highlands can offer. the young woman says the becoming a deer hunter was the best decision she's ever made. there is something i'm really proud of. wildlife. wildlife is it can see the stags in the distance. even more there's always that sense of community in the chicken that's. so if he works on a private estate your dog winning in the highlands. on pandemic times it's a popular destination for hunters and holiday makers. but sophie sees herself as a paid environmentalist. whether she's reforesting or

restoring peace more she sees her job as serving nature and the land ready ready. hunting as part of the. 'd 'd 'd 'd 'd winter impacts older animals in particular 'd today sophie spots a herd that needs. there's a there's definitely a few older heinz field or leave i would have preferred to take there was a lot more condition over the winter than i would. so i could walk to them before they get to that stage before their stuff and as what we pride ourselves on doing as well. it may seem cool to shoot the animals but scott one has the highest density of red deer in europe and they breed like rabbits. left unchecked so if you explains the population would grow so fast that the animals would over graze the land star or succumb to diseases.

but these hinds are in luck today they're too far away for sophie to get a clear shot. just got a bit of darwin the. they're a little bit of a fright but they know there's no threat so they've already we are in full view here in full sight and if we start walking towards them they would know where they wouldn't be holding all them back. stalking them would take until evening. since it's not possible to shoot today it stays quiet on 10 all day. but this refrigerated rooms contents are testimony to sophie's hunting skills. sophie loves her work caring for the animals all she has to do is rattle the food box and they come running down the mountain.

right at the front is sophie's favorite amish. sophie's job may seem cut off from the world at large but she's always thinking about the bigger picture. the things i'm doing in the job will affect everything from on the state to the wider of scotland and that's the magic thing and that's i suppose that's a bit of a legacy. as we see again and again on our journey it's hard not to fall in love with scotland. and the desire to express this love is not just felt by scots.

fishing dirt out of the water raking up leaves maintaining the concrete. keith who is english and david who is scottish have spent many a weekend doing this for the last 20 years. these mysterious man. which the men treat with such love are part of the world's largest 3 dimensional map of a country. it's in people's in the scottish borders region. when keith 1st discovered the map i want to walk in 1907 it was completely overgrown. looking down into the undergrowth i i noticed the shape and. the shape of the mole of galloway which is a very conspicuous peninsula on the southwest side of the scottish coastline. and at that point i thought well no i just got no right to it not your nation. just out of curiosity i thought what it can't be if it was that if i walked northwest i

should find an island and to cut a long story short 10 minutes later i had walked north discovered ben loeb and walked across around the mall climbed over ben nevis and arrived at the north coast of scotland at the white house to ensure realising that this was an astonishing relief model for the whole of scotland. the relief model features all the mountains and locks of the scottish landscape. keep a nuclear engineer set out to find the creators of this patriotic work to no avail . it was lost in the local memory. and. being an engineer. this offended me because a lot of creative design effort went into producing it who had made it and why and it eventually led to me discovering my

colleague david cameron. david cameron is a retired architect from edinburgh is this part of the tree that. he knew that the relief was the brainchild of young. a polish 2nd world war veteran who had married a scottish one. became a successful local hotel and bought the barony castle hotel in people. he wanted to create a monument to express his love for his adopted country. and calling it the great polish map of scotland he had his compatriot cousin yet to stop us fly and to build it. david had met cousin yet to try for us in the early 1990 s. . the polish photographer was quite elderly and hadn't been to scotland for a long time. he asked david to search for his relief map.

this was. told tall weeds a pool of water on the left here. and. shells everywhere from. and i reported back to him and he was so sad about it to look this up for all this time and do it all these trips over and so i just made this rash promise. david hadn't got very far with his promise until keith stumbled upon the map. them but 2 men founded a charity scotland and in 2018 the relief was finally fully restored. at the time britain was still a member of the e.u. with scotland in the same political union as paul. of course this is no longer the case for heading for troubled waters here because i i have supported breaks it very

strongly for a long time and still do so this is where david and i diverged i think it's romantic idea that experience has shown to be totally impractical and i think the european union is a dysfunctional mess showing no signs of getting its act together i'm not going to accuse piece of having matter in most of my mind or anything like that but i think . shall we say although we're all one ireland i think somehow my impression is that the english people inshallah. and perhaps. more so you're looking at least that's how i like to think of it more and more scots believe that their country would be better off if it were as independent as it looks here in this pond. david is no fan of the government of

london and believes in the fundamental differences between the scottish and english were ignored. but he sees a total detachment from england as an impossibility if only for geological reasons . i think is wrong or interesting in a way that scotland in fact is you know logically part of the north american plate. and at one stage there would have been. scotland and england when scotland. england england went underneath and then volcanoes came off in the light and so we're told if you like to. do england i think it's rather difficult to get away from. the problem that the shetland islands do not have. they don't fit on the relief map at

all they're so far north of a scottish mainland closer to norway than to edinburgh. yet shetland is still quintessentially scotland with its beautiful landscape and sparse population. the sense of community here is important and people take a great deal of pride in their small islands but there's a lot of curiosity about the wider world to. the shetlanders have been buoyed by their oil which was 1st discovered here in the 1970 s. . the revenues from the oil industry have been invested wisely in the local community to build roads and public institutions. now with an eye on the future shetlanders are slowly transitioning to wind power. yet fishing is still the major source of income and. more fish are caught here than

in england northern ireland and wales put together. victor lawrence and isn't catching anything at the moment. he's been stuck in the harbor for over a month. before he can take his ship the radiant star out along the west coast the self employed fisherman means a spare part from sweden. one of the them. that's . the stupidest thing. i mean i don't. keep. the majority of the fishermen all over the united kingdom voted for it. because it

isn't the only one who disapproves of european colleagues encroaching on british waters. with their huge ships they take more than their fair share of the cash. yeah yeah. but. the church bells in the crowd town hall of blair wake are still like big ben. but now that britain has detached itself from the e.u. and scotland wants to separate from britain the desire for independence has spread to shetland to. stephen codes and the other local councillors think that shetland should liberate

itself from both britain and scotland. and the benefit to the local community like it money is flowing in. the decisions away from the westminster parliament. but these are life. any local political accountability. victor wants no more discussions about independence it costs him 1000 euros for every day he spends at sea in fuel alone he has 2 children and doesn't want any more uncertainty about the future. if. your way to be. if you.

solidarity and sticking together are things scots talk about often. but ideals in reality are not always aligned. glasgow is certainly familiar with this. the old working class city is a tough place. to go is struggling to combat drugs violence and unemployment. is scotland's biggest city it's also the center of design culture and literature. on buchanan street in the city center we meet up with jamie god like. the comedian is well known all over the country. in 2020 she won the scots speaker of the year award. the 59 year old has lived by the river clyde all her life i love.

this is the this is. this is. where you have got this video. you've got that's. glasgow was a poor soul and it brought in so many people from all over the world and the school . that is well you know we have problems like you have this site. in the world but the one thing about it was this people just tell you how they feel they don't go about. on the floor. you can still put up some. inflection you don't get. this is going. janie grew up poor married young and randall published her husband for 15 years. when they had to give it up she became a comedian. for many here she has become the voice of scotland funny honest and

unpretentious. but some people cannot stand her. all my boyfriends. one reason is that she's anything but ladylike. comedians. when we swear especially a female because if you're a portion angle female and yes waiting is sounds like you're just being cheeky but if you're a female and you're. like everyone else in showbusiness jamie's life has been hard hit by the coronavirus. this is the biggest audience upload some smart. anyone from oh that's not. how you did not want to. talk.

but her online audience is larger than ever. indeed jamie's popularity has grown along with that of nicholas sturgeon the scottish 1st minister. the coronavirus statistics are not much better in scotland or england but sturgeon's empathetic manner and factual information of one people over. janie does a voice over a sturgeon's daily briefings in her own words the 1st minister started to do these daily briefings i decided the message just became law and i thought what way can i get the us to be attention you know get attention from it so i started to divide us and see the things she's really wanted to say like status what i'm going to die if you go i'm going to stick my top the clock. i became her. translator basically i don't. i'm going to do what's right for the country

a father rush things through and people die almost i don't see that you've got to begin with but a sustained. for months a consistent majority of the scots have said that prime minister boris johnson is going too far. the english politician is extremely unpopular here. jenny also hopes that nicola sturgeon will win the election to the scottish parliament and me and that there will then be a 2nd referendum for scottish independence. that has made a fundamental difference to the situation. we were told by contritely 14 wee hours and people who support and the pendants as we voted the independence they would protect and keep it up. and it's basically a mom and dad same like going bad terribly when you wake up you will have a pony and you're going to bed you sleep in your break up and there's just

a cushion in the shape of a cat instead and that's. just light they lied and they lived in the light and that's what the dogs. are cheney scottish independence is the only way forward. more and more scots are dreaming of being able to vote directly on the issues that affect them. the coronavirus epidemic has forced the folk singer dave gibbs to stay at home inadmissibility. he normally tours through the country and sings. during the lockdown he and the other inhabitants of wanlockhead the highest village in scotland altitude was decided to start a revolution. for hundreds of years one like head is belong to. aristocratic family . now the community wants to buy back 15 hectares of land from the current duke of

a clue. well why is this has. the thought a history buff you know why is that why is all this land here has is a lot just a private one do not in the u.k. because he's a jerk a very had a clue how to keep a clue as we call him and why what did he do to get it what's he done to keep but what's he done to improve it the done nothing all he does is like mel to recently like to shoot bugs so sky and get to actually from the london homes you know see them done nothing what. certainly nothing for the community. lincoln ritual moved from england to wanlockhead scotland. to live in a civilized self-reliant country at last as he puts it. we're looking at this area head would mean we end somewhere along that horizon line where

the land that we will be hopefully boy. one 3rd of scottish land belongs to just a few large landowners. who didn't have a revolution did. not that kind of revolution you know these landowners go back to the norman conquest so. it's a it's a long time situation really. you know you're not going to get me to say much about this. instead of chasing the feudal lord off with a pitchfork and the old fashioned way they want to offer him 1600000 euros for the rugged land the barren hills and a few sheep. in the 18th century when it was worth owning a village but then duke of the clue built mines and smelting plants there. thanks to its lead in gold reserves wanlockhead was dubbed god's treasure trove.

the clue also ran a hunting lodge here. these days the tiny village is of little interest to the duke but the wanlockhead locals love their village on their part which is after all the highest pub in scotland. during the pandemic people are keeping their distance. the only 2 tourists are from england they're impressed by david lincoln's bold plan is the affordable housing we are going to be one of the decency to do anything i want and if this works interesting for young people. maybe that's why one of the things we want to do is try and create some local jobs. so i think one thing is amazing absolutely amazing. the. tools choice you. can go to the. nature of people working here. you know if your kid was one

of your doing your job and you weren't here to do your job one market is not alone it's endeavor all over scotland local councils have now bought up some 3 percent of the land. the scottish government to supporting this late land reform as best as it came. if an application is convincing the state will finance the acquisition. as only about half of one market's $200.00 inhabitants have voted to pay off the duke lincoln is worried he might not get the necessary funding but he's firmly convinced that his project is part of an overall trend. this is a very different country to england with. substantially different values. much more school is much more in tune to europe than england and i am an englishman that's why i live in scotland so it's just a natural step. to go from there and here.

well. the thing is no. hunter so if he thinks that independence is a question of attitude. like most of her fellow scots she wanted to stay in the european union. while a slight majority of scots feel that brooks it is a good enough reason to separate from britain so if you would rather wait. i pride myself in calling myself school ish 1st before i do a british style love and. i absolutely love it as well but i can see where people are coming from western with and that's right now and if there is to be another referendum i don't think now is the time i think we'll that's the hend things and. once we know where we're a lot where were our feet our. independence of self-determination mean different things to different people. geography and

history brought the scots to a point where many can picture a future outside the united kingdom. which only recently and only through english voters became a reality was supposed to make britain more independent. but what it has shown most clearly is just how different scotland is something that could spell the end of the united kingdom in its current form.

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