1994 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1994 in Scotland.
Contents
Incumbents
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Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Hope
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Ross
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord Philip
Events
- March — Strathclyde water referendum indicates overwhelming opposition to the privatisation of water.
- 5 May — Elections are held for Scotland's Regional Councils.
- 19 May — Robert Black, jailed for life four years ago for abducting a seven-year-old girl in the Scottish Borders, is found guilty of murdering three girls in the 1980s and sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended minimum term of 35 years.
- 2 June — Chinook crash on Mull of Kintyre: An RAF Chinook helicopter carrying more than twenty leading intelligence experts crashes on the Mull of Kintyre, killing everyone on board.[1]
- 9 June — European Elections result in Labour winning six of Scotland's eight MEPs, with the SNP winning the other two.
- 25 June — The Greenock rail accident, caused by vandals placing concrete blocks on the rails, kills two people.
- 30 June — Monklands East by-election results in Labour retaining the seat despite a swing of 19.2% to the SNP.
- 3 November — The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, that will reorganise local government by creating 32 unitary authorities, receives the Royal Assent.
Births
- 14 January — Ross Murdoch, swimmer
- 23 March — Jack Hamilton, goalkeeper
- 12 September — Mhairi Black, SNP MP
Deaths
- 6 June — Mark McManus, film and television actor (born 1935)
- Rhoda Bulter, poet (born 1929)
Arts and literature
- 9 May — Release of Scottish group Wet Wet Wet's cover of the song Love Is All Around (1967), as featured in the recently released film Four Weddings and a Funeral. From 29 May it will spend 15 consecutive weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart, the longest spell ever attained by a British act.[2]
- June — The old Empire Palace Theatre in Edinburgh reopens permanently as the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.
- August — Theresa Breslin's young adult novel Whispers in the Graveyard is published.
- James Kelman's stream of consciousness novel How Late It Was, How Late, written in Glasgow patter, is published.
- Alternative rock band Snow Patrol is formed by students from Northern Ireland at the University of Dundee.[3]