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white heather

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Noun1.white heather - heath of mountains of western United States having bell-shaped white flowers
heath - a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers
Cassiope, genus Cassiope - low tufted evergreen shrubs of colder parts of north temperate regions having moss-like foliage and nodding white or pink flowers


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Almost exactly 30 years ago, the 11 members of the White Heather Club at Westminster - otherwise known as "Scotland's first 11" - the SNP MPs for whom it was said every night was Burns' Night in the House of Commons bars, voted with Thatcher to bring down Jim Callaghan's Labour government.
They discovered a 50-year-old time capsule complete with a letter, a penny and threepenny stamp, labels from Pumphrey's sugar packets, copies of newspapers including an Evening Gazette and a sprig of white heather.
Gone are the days when the most exciting thing to happen on the box on New Year's Eve were people dressing up in kilts for the White Heather Club.
 
 
 
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