According to forthroadbridge.org, work will be carried out between 3am and 12 noon on both Saturday, 31 March and Sunday, 1 April, with traffic being restricted. A spokesperson of the Forth Road Bridge advices “to take public transport if you can. Delays could be up to two hours around 11am” Following the successful completion of [...]
By: Pamela Paterson Today women are celebrating their decolletage as they take part in National Cleavage Day. The unusual event takes place in March or April each year and has been running since 2002. It is sponsored by well known bra maker Wonderbra, and according to them, “is a day for women to acknowledge that [...]
The legal representatives of the ongoing inquiry are due to make their closing statement today. The inquiry is looking into how hundreds of people in Scotland received contaminated blood in the 1970s and 1980s. In the first evidence session earlier this month Lord Penrose heard from patients and relatives in a closed session so they [...]
This Saturday, Edinburgh will go dark. In conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour 2012, Edinburgh will join hundreds of cities from all over the world by switching off lights and electricity, and going dark, for an hour. Earth Hour is scheduled on the last Saturday of every March, closely coinciding with the equinox, [...]
The company that makes Irn Bru have reported a steady increase in profits. AG Barr’s profits have increased by 16.4% to £35.4 million for the year ending January 2012. Turnover for the same period was £237 million. Sales of Irn Bru itself rose by 2.7% with the company planning to open a new site in [...]
Scottish gay rights charity, Equality Network has responded to a sermon given yesterday by the Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow, Mario Conti. In the sermon he claimed that “tolerance” is turning into “tyranny” on the subject of gay marriage, accusing the political mainstream of “marginalizing” religious opinion. The Archbishop claimed yesterday that the proposed introduction of [...]
A four year old boy was rescued by fire fighters after becoming trapped in a climbing frame in Lauderdale park in Dunbar, East Lothian yesterday evening (25 March 2012). The boy had to be cut free when his arm became trapped in a metal part of the climbing frame by fire fighters using a grinder [...]
£150m will be removed every year from the Scottish economy as a result of the UK Government’s new Housing Benefit law. More than 95,000 households in the social rented sector will be affected by the reform and this will mean an average monthly loss of up to £65 for claimant tenants. Great concern has been [...]
Much of Scotland has been basking in the glorious sunshine and soaring temperatures this weekend. Feeling more like summer than spring, UK temperatures surpassed Mediterranean temperatures, out-scorching Barcelona and Mallorca. After a foggy Saturday in Edinburgh, Sunday had sun worshippers out in force around the capital’s parks basking in the unseasonal heat wave. The warm [...]
Every year we turn our clocks forward by an hour at the last weekend in March. This year the change to daylight-saving time, or summer time as many people call it, took place yesterday, on March the 25th. Summer time will reduce energy costs by aligning the time we spend awake and working with daylight. [...]
Listen Here: The NSPCC has launched a new campaign urging the public to act on doubts about child safety, as new figures show most people wait at least a month before picking up the phone. In the last six months, 374 people from Scotland contacted the NSPCC with concerns about a child that were considered [...]
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A 64 -year- old grandmother has been spared jail from the High Court of Edinburgh today after standing trial for illegal possession of a revolver. Kathleen Woodward was arrested after admitting that she kept a Harrington and Richardson pistol in her house without a license. The gun, which had owned by the by her late husband, [...]
Tickets for the Edinburgh International Festival will go on sale tomorrow, 24 March 2012. The festival, which will run from the 9th of August to the 2nd of September, will showcase talents from 47 nations in performances of theatre, opera, dance and music. 4 million people will flock to Scotland’s capital city to watch 40, [...]
By: Gavrielle Kirk-Cohen The St Andrews University’s Kate Kennedy club has finally voted to allow women to join. The society which was founded in 1926, held a meeting earlier this week in which they agreed to change the policy. A formal motion was passed allowing all first year students to apply to the Kate Kennedy Club, regardless [...]
By Silvia Montes and Sam Khan-McIntyre Mother’s Day Origins Mother’s day has it its origins deep in history, falling on the middle Sunday of Lent, the Christian time of fasting.it has been celebrated on this day since the 16th century.This day was chosen because the fasting rules were relaxed, due to the biblical story of [...]
A campaign will be launched during the Students Association elections at the end of March for the main library building on George Square to be open 24 hours a day. The Student Council has already managed to extend the opening hours to 2:30am, and have previously argued for a 24-hour policy. Members of EUSA will [...]
A survey out today found a third of children in Scotland are binge drinking by the age of 13. The Scottish government believes that the link between consumption of alcohol and affordability is a major factor in aggrevating problems of alcohol abuse and aims to tackle this by introducing a minimum alcohol price to discourage [...]
By Silvia Montes Listen Here: The City Of Edinburgh Council is launching a campaign to recruit more fosters as the number of children in care across Scotland is the highest since 1981. Edinburgh Council is aiming to recruit around 30 new foster carers this year and it has organised five events across the city in [...]
March sees the annual return of International Women’s Day (IWD) with events planned throughout Edinburgh to mark the occasion. For over 100 years, the world has celebrated the achievements of women and their contribution to the arts, sciences, medicine and numerous other fields. On and around 8th March the celebration continues as countries around the [...]
Despite the fact that Spain was the first country where Movember was exported from Australia, the campaign has had limited public support. Movember’s aim is to raise much needed funds and awareness for men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer and male depression. The international campaign responsible for thousands of men around the world sporting moustaches [...]
A local Councillor has described Edinburgh’s attempt to keep the city’s streets safe during the winter season as “impossible for the Council to do, even if they got the Chinese army.” The comments come as local residents raise concerns about the availability and distribution of grit as predictions of a harsh winter loom. Last year [...]
By Gemma McCallan 5 Design and Democracy Art Exhibition – starts Friday 25 November 2011, The Scottish Parliament 16 graduates from Scotland’s four renowned art schools have collaborated to create an exhibition. ‘Design and Democracy’ will showcase how inspired design can be both life enhancing and creative. Designs range from photographic presentation, model store fronts, [...]
Scottish Women’s Aid encourages you to put on your dancing shoes for a good cause this Friday. The organisation will hold a special charity ceilidh on November 25, in Edinburgh’s City Chambers. Scottish Women’s Aid celebrates its 35th anniversary with The Belle Star Ceilidh Band providing live entertainment. This event coincides with the beginning of [...]
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