Scotland 300: The Nationhood Debate: Day One: Emma Cowing and Eben Harrell in Dumfries: Close to the Border, Happy to Be Scots

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IN A town just 20-odd miles from the Border, where the January snow is melting into the River Nith and a cold winter sun peers out from behind the magnificent Midsteeple, a quiet revolution is taking place. Dumfries - "Queen of the South", home of the Doon-hamers and once home to Scotland's greatest poet, Robert Burns, is now home to a new type of Scot - one coming to terms with a country changing rapidly before their eyes.

We arrived just before noon on the first day of The Scotsman nationhood tour to ask the town's citizens one central question: "What does Scotland in 2007 mean to you?"

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Scotland 300: The Nationhood Debate: Day One: Emma Cowing and Eben Harrell in Dumfries: Close to the Border, Happy to Be Scots

Their responses and concerns reflected worries about Scotland's political future and its cultural past, its legacy and its history, as well as their views on the fiercely debated issue of whether, 300 years after the Act of Union was signed, it still has a place in our future. They also...

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