2002 in Scotland

Events from the year 2002 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• First Minister and Keeper of the Great Seal – Jack McConnell
• Secretary of State for Scotland – Helen Liddell

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Lord Boyd of Duncansby
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Elish Angiolini
• Advocate General for Scotland – Lynda Clark

Judiciary

• 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

• 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 Queen Elizabeth II to mark her Golden Jubilee.^[2]
• 10 February – The hit preschool television series Balamory made by BBC Scotland is first broadcast.
• 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 £3,000,000.^[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. A similar ban would take place in England and Wales under the Hunting Act 2004, which took effect from 18 February 2005.
• Millennium Bridge, Glasgow, opens to pedestrians.

Deaths

• 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

• 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

• 2002 in England
• 2002 in Northern Ireland
• 2002 in Wales

References

1. ^ "Sweeping praise for curling team". BBC News. 22 February 2002. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
2. ^ "Stirling elevated to city status". BBC News. 14 March 2002.
3. ^ Hannah, Valerie (2002-04-08). "Family victory for lesbian couple: Mixed response to landmark ruling on parental rights". The Herald. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
4. ^ "Coal Mining in Scotland 1840-1920". Scan Education. Retrieved 2014-04-02.
5. ^ "Grim future for deep coal mine". BBC. 29 March 2002.
6. ^ "End for Airdrie". BBC News. 1 May 2002.
7. ^ "Blair unveils Dewar memorial". BBC News. 7 May 2002. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
8. ^ "Aberdeen successful in bid to host Scottish Parliament in May 2002". University of Aberdeen. 2001-09-11. Archived 2005-01-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
9. ^ "Airdrie buy Bankies". BBC News. 9 July 2002.
10. ^ "Scotland's first national park opens". The Guardian. 2002-07-24. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
11. ^ "2002: Queen Mother dies". BBC News. 2002-03-30. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
12. ^ 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.
13. ^ "Edinburgh's Makars". Edinburgh, UNESCO City of Literature. City of Literature Trust. 2006. Archived from the original on 28 December 2008. Retrieved 2013-02-25.