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Edinburgh celebrates links with Norway
A SIXTY foot Sitka spruce will be erected on The Mound in Edinburgh on Saturday to celebrate the city’s links with Hordaland in Norway. Hordaland has given a tree to Scotland’s capital city each Christmas since 1949 to remember the help given to Norwegians by Scots during the Second World War. Since 2008, the tree…
Read MoreGrants for ‘resilient’ rural communities
THERE’S less than a week to go for rural communities to apply for £10,000 grants from The Prince’s Countryside Fund. The grants will fund projects to help make communities more “resilient”. “Rural community resilience means different things to different communities, but the projects we are looking to support will allow the community to survive and…
Read More10,000 skincare products for cancer patients
CANCER support charity Make 2nds Count has teamed up with cancer skincare specialist Jennifer Young to give 10,000 products away during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Over the past few weeks, the Edinburgh-based organisation has asked people to nominate small charities, hospices, and cancer support groups through which it will give away products from Young’s Beauty…
Read More‘Smart village’ needs young people
THE world’s first “smart village” for young people is on the hunt for digital champions aged 18 to 28 from across Angus, the Borders, Lanarkshire, the Outer Hebrides, and rural Perth and Kinross. A total of 12 digital champions will work with Scotland’s Rural Youth Project to help develop a pioneering “smart village” centred on…
Read MoreDundee cleaner wants to ‘clean up’ industry’s image
A CLEANER from Dundee is on a mission to “clean up” her industry’s reputation. Kelly Fairweather, owner and founder of At Your Service, has been appointed as associate director of the Domestic Cleaning Business Network (DCBN), a trade association formed late last year to provide advice and resources to domestic cleaning companies across the UK.…
Read MoreInverness named top city for newlyweds
THE Highland capital has been crowed as the best city in the UK for newlyweds thanks to its large number of create spaces and low cost of living. Aberdeen finished second, with Edinburgh in third and Glasgow in fourth, leading to Scotland taking the title of best nation in the UK. The cost of living…
Read MoreWorld’s best morning commute
Some key workers are still going into work during the lockdown, and few have a better daily journey to the office than this one through Glen Lonan, along the Road of The Kings. If you’re stuck at home, this 360 degree footage will hopefully remind you just what awaits when life gets back to being…
Read MoreDigital directory for the North Highlands
A new online platform to help people come together during the coronavirus pandemic has already attracted 10,000 community-spirited North Highlanders. Launched by Inverness-based events and marketing team Planit Scotland, ‘Highland COVID-19’ is a dedicated resource for people across the North Highlands to get free access to online activities, advice and help available right on their…
Read MoreScottish town is named the luckiest in Britain
St Andrews has been named as the luckiest place to live in the UK, according to new analysis by Paddy Power Games. The research, which looked at the main jackpot wins on games played on the Paddy Power Games website, found that a higher proportion of players from St Andrews claimed the big prize than…
Read MoreInstrmnt’s success is well worth watching
Instrmnt’s functional designs are enjoying a timely success. Minimalism is the fundamental ethos behind Instrmnt, Ross Baynham and Pete Sunder land’s Glasgow design studio. Even the company’s name, pretty much stripped of its vowels, is subject to the same principals. Launched in 2014 by the two design graduates, Instrmnt’s first product is a watch. But…
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