by Kirstyn Smith Last year, the AQA was moved to withdraw her poem Education for Leisure from the GCSE English exam, due to its supposed insinuations of knife crime. Her unashamed relationship with fellow writer Jackie Kay was allegedly considered by Tony Blair to be too unconventional for Middle England. An emotional and forthright poet, Carol [...]
by Domenica Goduto and Kirstyn Smith What is swine flu?Swine flu is a respiratory disease which infects pigs, a new strain of the H1N1 influenza virus which is also derived in part by the human influenza virus Type A. Most outbreaks occur in late autumn and winter on farms, killing between 1% and 4% of animals it [...]
by Kirstyn Smith Harry Hill won Best Entertainment Performance for the second year running at last night’s Bafta awards. His show, Harry Hill’s TV Burp, which takes a light-hearted look at the week’s television, beat off competition from popular rivals Stephen Fry (QI), Ant and Dec (Saturday Night Takeaway) and the ever-controversial Jonathan Ross (Friday Night with [...]
by Kirstyn Smith The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is due to close this Sunday after receiving a £4.5 million grant to go towards a long-awaited restoration. The financial aid, awarded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), will help the gallery’s planned revamp which will cost, in total, approximately £17.6 million and follows a donation of £5.1 million from the [...]
by Kirstyn Smith Dunfermline Building Society has been bought by Nationwide, it has been revealed today. The institution’s collapse, which resulted in losses of £26 million, meant that it had to be put up for sale. Today’s statement from the Bank of England reports that it agreed to sell “core parts” of the 140-year-old establishment, [...]
by Kirstyn Smith The first thing to look out for is the number of lone, shifty-looking men in the auditorium. I don’t know what this anticipative audience expects from a film called Lesbian Vampire Killers, but I’ve a feeling they left feeling a bit disappointed. Unfortunately, they weren’t the only ones. To give the film [...]
by Kirstyn Smith An interesting new way of outlining London’s streets could soon be a reality, thanks to Boris Johnson’s plans to render the streets of London ‘naked’. However, this is not a case of the controversial mayor contemplating a mass public nudity bylaw. Rather, he proposes to remove traffic lights, street signs and road [...]
by Kirstyn Smith American Teen They say (whoever ‘they’ are) that school days are the best days of your life. It’s been a long seven years since I last set foot in a school, so I’ve forgotten what it was really like, everything having faded into a rose-tinted haze. However, if the experience was in [...]
by Kirstyn Smith Oban and Lorn Tourist Association are calling for a ban to end the sale of chewing gum and the practice of spitting it out in the street. The Environmental Protection Act states that: “It is an offence to throw down and leave anything in a manner likely to deface.” If caught, offenders can [...]
If you think you could use a good laugh or some relaxation after the miserable start to this year, then Glasgow is the place to be for festival fun this March, boasting both comedy and literature events in the coming weeks. The Bank of Scotland Aye Write book festival launched this weekend and will continue until the 14th, while Magners Glasgow International [...]
Seventy-five percent of Scottish primary schools are breaking the new laws regarding healthy school dinners. A recent inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education (HME) across thirty-four Scottish schools showed that only a quarter of them were sticking to the strict guidelines introduced by the Government last September. Children’s Minister Adam Ingram launched the guide, [...]
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