Uni team in green final
Eight teams of students, including one from the University of Edinburgh, have made it into the final of the npower Future Leaders Challenge 2012 – a competition which tasks undergraduates to devise...
View ArticleSink or swim for coalition in crucial Waterworld vote
THE city’s Labour-SNP coalition is today facing the first major test of its alliance over the community bid to save Leith Waterworld.Labour councillors are under pressure from campaigners and residents...
View ArticleComplaints against NHS at record high
NHS Scotland has received a record 800 complaints a month about claims of poor treatment. Figures show almost 10,000 complaints were made hospital and community health services in 2010/11, the highest...
View ArticleYouth jobs hotline live
LIVINGSTON MSP Angela Constance has launched a national hotline aiming to get teenagers into education or training.The service, Opportunities for All, will offer advice to 16 to 19-year-olds and aims...
View ArticleFirms are being born three at a time every hour of every working day in the...
THREE businesses are now being started every hour of every working day in Edinburgh – the highest number since records began almost 150 years ago.The figures for start-up companies have been hailed as...
View ArticleClassical star keeps Italian studies in tune
VIRTUOSO violinist Nicola Benedetti is backing a scholarship that will help a student further her research into Italian literature.The Scots-born classical music star is a patron of an Edinburgh...
View ArticleTourism academy welcome
THE opening of Scotland’s first hospitality and tourism academy, which is based in the Lothians, is to be celebrated alongside Scottish Government officials at a parliamentary reception.The academy is...
View ArticleMartin Hannan: Let people, not judges, decide
It always amazes me that people in this city get so worked up about the green belt and any infringement on green spaces when Edinburgh as a whole ignores a basic truth.Of course there should be no...
View ArticleMystery as dead sheep found dumped on pedestrian crossing
POLICE and animal welfare officers were today attempting to unravel the bizarre case of a dead sheep found on a pedestrian crossing in a city housing estate.• Dead sheep found on pedestrian crossing in...
View ArticleUnion blasts closure of Castlebrae
SCOTLAND’S largest teaching union has condemned the planned closure of Castlebrae Community High, blaming lack of investment and uncertainty over its future for the school’s poor record.The Educational...
View ArticleChange in jobs rights slated
MOVES by the UK government to “water down” employment rights have been attacked by Livingston Labour MP Graeme Morrice. Business Secretary Vince Cable wants to lower the cap on the amount of...
View ArticleJohn Gibson: No need to travel to find a trench
Trenches, did you say? Did someone mention trenches? Evidently they’ve been planning to revitalise trenches in Edinburgh’s outkirts that were used to help troops train and prepare to die at a...
View ArticleCharity calls for shake-up of dementia care in Scotland
A CHARITY has called for a radical shake-up of care services for people with dementia in Scotland.Alzheimer Scotland has said that many of Scotland’s estimated 84,000 sufferers do not receive the...
View ArticleFrank Boyle cartoon 18/09/2012
Today...Boyling PointFollow Frank Boyle on Twitter at {http://www.twitter.com/boylecartoon|@boylecartoon|Frank Boyle Twitter}.• Frank Boyle’s latest book Boyling Point 2 is available for £8.99 with...
View ArticlePatients face ‘postcode lottery’ over lifesaving drugs
PATIENTS are facing a “postcode lottery” in accessing potentially lifesaving drugs which are not routinely available on the NHS, opposition leaders today warned.Dozens of leading Scottish cancer...
View ArticlePlans for ‘pyrolysis’ waste plant in Lanarkshire survive legal challenge
PLANS for a “pyrolysis” waste plant in Lanarkshire which provoked thousands of objections from residents and the local MSP have survived a legal challenge.Shore Energy want to develop the former Shanks...
View ArticleCreative Scotland bosses attacked over culture decisions
SCOTLAND’S arts bosses have been accused of imposing decisions about culture on the country’s artists and of acting like ”bureaucrats” at a Holyrood committee today.• Creative Scotland accused of...
View ArticleTravel: Berlin via Brussels by train
Travelling from Brussels to Berlin is the perfect way to see Europe old and new in one trip, with the perfectly preserved chocolate-box-beauty of the former throwing the sense of flux that pervades the...
View ArticleScottish Labour general secretary Colin Smyth steps down
SCOTTISH Labour’s general secretary announced today he was quitting his job in the latest stage of a “clear out” of the party’s headquarters following its defeat to the SNP last year.Colin Smyth, who...
View ArticleWelfare system is ‘Kafkaesque’ and set up to rob people of benefits, MSPs told
THE benefits system is a “Kafkaesque” machine that uses lies and misinformation to deprive people of their benefits, disabled people have told MSPs.• Private contractor Atos ‘twist assessments’ of the...
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