Highlights from Events 2009 – Orkney International Science Festival

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Highlights from 2009 Orkney International Science Festival

Mike Gore from Canberra pouring out the unexpected, Scottish sea buckthorn for the future, a homecoming in the Cathedral, the pipe band in full flow…