2010 in Scotland
Events from 2010 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
January
- 5 January - Scotland as well as most of the UK is deluged by some of the heaviest snow in thirty years, causing widespread transport problems and school closures.
April
May
June
- 8 June - Eight injured after a train derails in Argyll.
- 10 June - A man dies after being shot outside his home in Lanarkshire.
July
September
November
December
- 11 December - Scottish Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson resigns amid criticism of his handling of transport chaos brought on by recent heavy snow in Scotland.[4]
- 12 December - Keith Brown is appointed as Scottish Transport Minister following yesterday's resignation of Stewart Stevenson.[5]
- 13 December - Major supermarkets and online stores stop taking orders in Scotland in the run up to Christmas, because of a backlog of deliveries caused by the adverse weather conditions.[6]
- 16 December - The Scottish Government rules out re-introducing tuition fees for Scottish university students, but students from other parts of the United Kingdom attending university in Scotland may face fees of £6,000.[7]
- 23 December - Former MSP Tommy Sheridan is convicted of perjury following a twelve week trial.[8]
Deaths
- 2 January - David R. Ross, Historian (born 1958)
- 7 January - Alex Parker, Football player and manager (born 1935)
- 19 January - Bill McLaren, Rugby union commentator (born 1923)
- 25 January - Bill Ritchie, Cartoonist (born 1931)
- 28 January - Alistair Hulett, Acoustic folk singer (born 1951)
- 13 February - Jock Ferguson, Australian politician (born 1946)
- 22 February - Bobby Smith, Footballer (born 1953)
- 28 February - Adam Blacklaw, Footballer (born 1937)
- 11 March - Willie MacFarlane, Football player and manager (born 1930)
- 12 March - Hugh Robertson, Footballer (born 1939)
- 18 March - William Wolfe, Chairman of the Scottish National Party (1969–1979) (born 1924)
- 22 March - James W. Black, Pharmacologist who won the 1988 Nobel prize in medicine (born 1924)
- 28 March - David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk, Member of the House of Lords (born 1954)
- 1 April - Morag Beaton, Opera singer (born 1926)
- 9 April - Kenneth McKellar, Tenor (born 1927)
- 19 April - Tom Fleming, Actor (born 1927)
- 21 April - Sammy Baird, Football player (born 1930)
- 1 June - John Hagart, Football player and manager (born 1937)
- 21 June - Tam White, Musician and actor (born 1942)
- 10 August - Jimmy Reid, Trade Unionist activist (born 1932)
- 16 August - Bobby Thomson, Scottish-born American baseball player (born 1923)
- 17 August - Bill Millin, British Army soldier and piper during WWII (born 1922)
- 19 August - Edwin Morgan, Poet (born 1920)
- 28 October - Gerard Kelly, Actor (b. 1959)
- 25 December - Sir Iain Noble, Banker and Gaelic activist (b. 1935)[9]
- 30 December - Jenny Wood-Allen, World record marathon runner (born 1911)
See also
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