After visiting Scotland, I found the tartan pattern very interesting and discovered that there is a lot of history, meaning and importance to it. There are many different tartan designs representing different clans and names; there is a pattern for most Scottish names as well as my own. Red, green, blue and yellow tartans are the most common. History has it; the meaning of the colours has changed since the 19th century. It's said that red tartan was worn in battle so blood would not show, green resembled the forest, blue symbolising lakes and rivers and yellow resembling crops. Today, the colours identify religion as red and green tartans represent Catholics and the blue represents Protestants. The divide is important in Scotland as one can identify people's religion by what colour tartan is worn. Ultimately the tartan kilt is a universal symbol of "scottishness" and represents that culture and all its history.

This is what the BBC has on their website - contributed by Jennifer Mcpartlin.

No mention of who, or what she is, or her authority to pronounce on tartan in this way but, if the information on the BBC website is anything to go by, it now forms part of the BBC Schools Lesson Plan, BBC Archive Chronicle, BBC History, and BBC Culture 24 networks.

As a professional career of more than 45 years in journalism. I can say with a good deal of personal experience that the editorial standard at the BBC has always been low, subjective at an individual level and considered something of a joke in the industry. But this beggars belief.

How many youngsters will have been given this kind of nonsense as gospel fact in their history lessons, and thought it unquestionably true because it comes from the BBC? And it's on the internet, so how could it be otherwise..?

I can well imagine the day will soon come (if it has not already arrived) when the lads at the Scottish Tartans Authority will be told they are wrong, and know nothing because the BBC says...

But wait!

I know what it is. I've died, haven't I..? And I'm in purgatory, and having to suffer this kind of torment is how my sins are being expiated.

Boy, I must have been a bad 'un...