A gas leak at the Elgin platform, 150 miles off the coast of Aberdeen has been ongoing since Sunday. 238 workers have been evacuated from the platform and the nearby Rowan Viking drilling rig as well as Shell have moved personnel. A three mile safety zone had been put in place but it has been [...]
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 Sam Khan-McIntyre and Silvia Montes Bethany is a 30 year-old homelessness charity, and helps 4,000 people in Scotland every year. We met Sydney Stewart from Edinburgh who five years ago had nowhere to live and was accepted at a Bethany Hostel. He is no longer homeless and is helping the charity which put him [...]
It’s campaign time and on May the 3rd voters will choose the future of the city transport. Transport had been in the spotlight in recent years due to the troubled tram project. Now Edinburgh faces another challenge with European Union strict standards on air pollution. The Green party have highlighted the deadline for the city [...]
Five cars in total have been vandalized while they were parked on Bellevue Road and in the McDonald’s car park located on the same street. Both are in the Broughton Area. Hood ornaments are popular prey for vandals all over the world. Edinburgh BMWs and Audis have recently been stripped of their firmly placed logos. [...]
The body of a man, who is believed to be in his 30′s, was found on a patch of grass in Broomhouse Gardens East. The man was found just after midnight yesterday, 29 March, after residents in Broomhouse heard what they thought were fireworks. The man is believed to have died from a gunshot wound. [...]
A “little April foolery” is a protest staged all over Edinburgh by local artists on the first of April. The protest is aimed at the controversial legislation, which will come into action on the first of the month. Many hundreds of artists are set to make the city centre their big stage as they fight [...]
An FOI request made by the Scottish Labour Party has revealed that some patients suffering from chronic pain are waiting for more than 6 months before their first appointment. The findings have revealed that 1,866 patients are waiting for their first appointment, whilst over 1,000 people are awaiting a follow-up appointment. The worst waiting times [...]
GAME, Britain’s biggest video game retailer, has gone into administration today. The retailer counts around 1.300 stores distributed between the UK and mainland Europe, 5.100 employees in the UK and Ireland, of which 385 are employed at its headquarters in Basingstoke, Hampshire. In Edinburgh, Gamestation on Princes Street, the flagship store of the company, had already [...]
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 [...]
The UK’s largest union is balloting its members to determine whether strike action will be used in the dispute over working conditions of delivery drivers in the oil sector. Unite’s national officer Matt Draper said: “The professionalism of tanker drivers is at stake. We should not accept a lowering of standards so that the oil [...]
A ‘battle to the death’ is set to take place in Edinburgh tomorrow night. The Voodoo Rooms will for the second time host Literary Death Match (LDM), an event originally created by Todd Zuniga, an LA-based writer and journalist and the founding editor of Opium Magazine. The contest pits four authors against one another, as [...]
Yesterday the Sunday Herald published a full 800 page report by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). For five years no paper was allowed to get access to the report. The controversial report highlights hopes of a new appeal in the name of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, since a believed miscarriage of justice [...]
A 30 year-old Polish man died yesterday after he crashed his car into a boulder in Kirkcaldy. The incident, which took place at Pathhead Sands, is believed to have happened during a meeting of Polish BMW enthusiasts. Inspector Brenda Sinclair of Fife Constabulary has appealed for any witnesses to come forward. “We understand that [...]
Mark and Alessandro look back at a weekend of Sports, with an Old Firm match packed with the usual tension and controversy, Fernando Alonso winning the Malaysian GP and the death of darts hero Jocky Wilson. We also had a look at the strange case of John O’Groats, a Scots town which won’t see the [...]
David Cameron is expected to pledge to double funding for dementia research by 2015 to £66 million. It is hoped that this funding increase will ensure that the UK will become “the world leader for dementia research and care”. With the figure of dementia sufferers set to rise to 1 million within the next decade [...]
According to a new report Scotland’s capital contributes more to the country’s economy than any other city in the UK. The study was released by London based accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young. Their calculations are based on Gross Value Added (GVA). It basically means the measure of a region’s contribution to the UK economy according [...]
The woman accused of breaking into Simon Cowell’s London home on Saturday night has been refused bail. 29-year-old Leanne Zaloumis was charged with aggravated burglary at West London Magistrates’ Court and will remain in custody until her next hearing on June 12th. Officer’s were called to the music mogul’s £7.5 million mansion shortly after the [...]
An oil rig in the North Sea has been evacuated after the discovery of a gas leak on Sunday 150 miles (240km) off the coast of Aberdeen. Total E&P UK (TEP UK), operators of the platform, has stated that 238 people have been evacuated from the rig, and no injuries have been reported. The platform is [...]
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 [...]
Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, has made controversial claims that women should be shown scans of their unborn child before proceeding with an abortion. The leader of Scotland’s Catholic Church said he thinks the NHS should introduce the measure which is currently used in America in order to reduce terminations in Scotland. In [...]
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. [...]
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