Tag: Mary Somerville
Letter from Scotland
This week we started pumping gas out of the seabed west of Shetland. It’s a huge and pioneering operation. Four sub-sea wells have been drilled at depths of 600 metres in stormy waters 125...
Mary Somerville to be the face of the new £10 note
Following an unseemly confusion over some last minute voting for Thomas Telford, the Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that Mary Somerville will be the face on the new polymer £10 note.Somerville was born...
