Events from the year 2002 in Scotland .
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Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Falkirk Wheel February – 2002 Winter Olympics : the gold medal in women's curling is won by an all-Scottish team representing Great Britain in Salt Lake City skipped by Rhona Martin .[ 1]
14 March – Stirling is granted city status in the United Kingdom by the Queen to mark her Golden Jubilee.[ 2] 10 February – the preschool television series Balamory BBC Scotland is first broadcast, nationally.14 March – appeal of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against a conviction for murder in connection with the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie is rejected and the Scottish Court in the Netherlands is decommissioned.19 March – a lesbian couple are granted parental rights over their children by an Edinburgh court.[ 3] 29 March – coal mining in Scotland , which has a history stretching back more than 800 years,[ 4] Longannet coal mine in Fife after its owners go into liquidation following flooding, putting more than 500 people out of work.[ 5] 1 May – Airdrieonians , of the Scottish Football League Division One , go into liquidation with debts of £3million.[ 6] 7 May – Prime Minister Tony Blair unveils a statue of Donald Dewar on Buchanan Street in Glasgow city centre .[ 7] May – the Scottish Parliament meets during this month in the University of Aberdeen .[ 8]
24 May – Falkirk Wheel boat lift opens in Scotland , also marking reopening of the Union Canal for leisure traffic.28 May – the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 receives royal assent.9 July – Clydebank F.C. of the Scottish Football League Second Division become defunct after a takeover by the owners of the new Airdrie United club, who take their place in the Scottish league.[ 9] 24 July – Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park created, Scotland's first national park .[ 10] 30 July – 2002 Glasgow floods result from heavy rain overnight.1 August – the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002 , that bans traditional fox hunting and hare coursing , comes into effect.Millennium Bridge, Glasgow , opens to pedestrians.
Deaths
8 March – Hamish Henderson , folk song collector (born 1919 )30 March – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother dies aged 101 at Royal Lodge , Windsor .[ 11] 27 May – Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson , historian and palaeographer (born 1909 )[ 12] 5 July – Jannette Anderson , academic (born 1927 )19 September – Rosalind Mitchison , historian (born 1919 )October – William Dysart , actor (born 1929 )
9 November – Neil MacCallum , political activist and poet (born 1954 )10 December – Ian MacNaughton , Scottish actor, director, and producer (born 1925 )
The arts
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