Around 50,000 visitors will have a “once in a lifetime experience” as they walk across the new 1.7-mile Queensferry Crossing this weekend. Continue reading Queensferry Crossing: the celebrations begin
Day: September 2, 2017
Cheese and wine at Starbank Park
Friday 16 September, 6 – 8pm
Warnings from the chalkface
Holyrood’s Education and Skills Committee is making over thirty recommendations to help address Scotland’s teacher shortages. The recommendations come after the Committee heard from over 650 teachers and trainee teachers. Continue reading Warnings from the chalkface
Charities urge Westminster: call a halt to Universal Credit
A raft of leading Scottish charities have joined forces to urge the Westminster government to rethink plans for the full rollout of Universal Credit from October. They argue that the introduction of the new benefit has already caused real hardship for thousands of claimants and say problems must be addressed before many more vulnerable people are thrown into poverty when the full roll-out takes place. Continue reading Charities urge Westminster: call a halt to Universal Credit
The shape of things to come: from Napier’s bones to future science
A whirlwind tour of advances in science and engineering is to highlight just how far we have come since John Napier devised his calculating bones and changed mathematics forever. Professor Jim Al-Khalili (above) is heading north to take an Edinburgh audience on a journey through the cutting-edge developments which will change the way we live. Continue reading The shape of things to come: from Napier’s bones to future science
Granton Youth Centre’s new gardening group to meet this morning
Saturday 2 September, 10.30am
Granton Youth Centre, West Granton Road
Pick your vantage point for tomorrow’s Grand Depart
With Edinburgh and the Borders set to host Stage One of the OVO Energy Tour of Britain, which takes place from the 3rd-10th September, take the time plan your vantage point. Tomorrow, riders will head from Edinburgh’s Royal Mile through East Lothian and into the Scottish Borders with the finish in Kelso.
Continue reading Pick your vantage point for tomorrow’s Grand Depart