{"id":56297,"date":"2026-07-09T16:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/three-scottish-towns-shortlisted-for-culture-title\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:18:32","slug":"three-scottish-towns-shortlisted-for-culture-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/three-scottish-towns-shortlisted-for-culture-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Scottish towns shortlisted for culture title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Included in the small towns category is the <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Isle of Bute<\/b>, known as just Bute, which lies in the Firth of Clyde, off Scotland&#8217;s west coast.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is home to about 6,500 people, with 4,000 in the island&#8217;s main town of Rothesay. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also in this category is <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Lerwick<\/b>, which is the largest town in Shetland, situated 110 miles north of the Scottish mainland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shetland has been part of Scotland since the 15th Century but it retains strong Norse traditions, which are celebrated in the annual Up Helly Aa festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The other towns in this section are Ilfracome, Sandown, Strabane and Stockton  Town Centre Ward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c20yv646g70o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Included in the small towns category is the Isle of Bute, known as just Bute, which lies in the Firth of Clyde, off Scotland&#8217;s west coast. It is home to about 6,500 people, with 4,000 in the island&#8217;s main town of Rothesay. Also in this category is Lerwick, which is the largest town in Shetland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[3663,1706,5167,1710,7626],"class_list":["post-56297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-culture","tag-scottish","tag-shortlisted","tag-title","tag-towns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56299,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56297\/revisions\/56299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}