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Did you know?
Robert Burns, Scotland's most famous poet, the man who
wrote the words to the song "Auld Lang Syne", lived and died in
Dumfries

The inventor of the first cycle with pedals,
Kirkpatrick Macmillan, was from Dumfries

Alison and Gillian were born in Cresswell Hospital
Dumfries

The new swimming pool
"DG1" - yes that's its name - opens when it opens - just maybe, this
year. 
Robert the Bruce slew the Red Comyn in Dumfries
and went on to be King of Scotland - or was it Mel Gibson?

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Sheffield, in South Yorkshire, is the fourth largest city in England, with a population of 520,700

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