The 700th anniversary of Scotland's most famous victory could mark the date it reaffirms independence from England.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) secured an historic result in the May 5 election to the devolved Holyrood Parliament in Edinburgh. It was the extent of the landslide that caused widespread surprise. The party won a majority within a legislature designed, due to its proportional voting system, to never produce such a result.
Commentators ran out of superlatives to describe the scope of the nationalists' victory, while many members of the winning party seemed astounded by what had happened.
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