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Robert Burns to Ugly Betty, 10 things you didn't know about Annan

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20080704
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1 Seven miles to the west of the English border, the Royal Burgh of Annan is the third biggest town in Dumfries & Galloway, after Dumfries and Stranraer, with a population of around 10,000.

2 The town takes its name from the popular angling river which flows through it to the Solway. The town motto is Ut Flumen Sic Opidum (As the river, so the town).

3 Annan's Motte and Bailey Castle was the original home of the 'de Brus' family, later known as the "Bruces", lords of Annandale, which included Robert the Bruce.

4 Robert Burns worked in the town as an exciseman in the late 1790s.

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