Is your New Year’s resolution to manage your money better? Would you like to find new ways to save money? ‘Money Matters To Me’, a new course starting at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre next week, could help you to save those precious pennies.
The free, fun and informal course starts on Wednesday 25 January and runs from 10am – 12 noon. To book your place or for more information call Nicola Ross on 332 6316, email nicola.ross@ea.edin.sch.uk
A new campaign was launched today encouraging smokers to quit with the help of the country’s national stop smoking helpline, Smokeline. Smokeline 0800 848484 offers smokers tips on how to kick the habit and advice on how to stay a non-smoker.
A new Scottish Government-commissioned survey suggests that four in ten smokers are smoking at least 15 cigarettes a day, but only a quarter think that they are spending more than £1750 a year on their habit. In fact the average annual cost of smoking 15 a day is £1916, so smokers are underestimating the true financial – never mind health – cost of smoking. The survey reveals that more than half (55%) of smokers questioned are making an attempt to stop smoking as a New Year resolution and for the vast majority of these, health (81%) and money (70%) are the two top reasons for quitting.
Launching the campaign, Public Health Minister Michael Mathieson said: “We know that the majority of people in Scotland want to stop, which is the biggest step someone can take to improve their health. Quitting can reduce a person’s risk if having a heart attack or coronary heart disease and also enables people to make big savings when household budgets are under pressure – a new survey suggests many people underestimate the financial cost of smoking”.
He went on: “Quitting is a common New Year resolution, but we know people are less likely to succeed if they go it alone. Our new campaign tells smokers that they are more likely to succeed in making 2012 the year they quit for good by calling Smokeline for free on 0800 848484. Smokeline can help people find the right quitting method to suit their lifestyle. There’s a huge range of support available – from face-to-face or online to nicotine replacement therapy and group sessions – and Smokeline can help put people in the right direction”.
As part of this year’s campaign the Scottish Government is again teaming up with Scottish Slimmers to offer members advice and information on giving up smoking and Slimmers will receive a joining fees discount if they call Smokeline and take the first step toward a smoke free future.
A Scottish Government roadshow team will also visit locations across the country to inform and advise smokers who want to quit and a TV advertising campaign will highlight Smokeline services.
Local support is at hand too for smokers determined to kick the habit. Contact your local GP surgery for more information – make 2012 the year you kick the habit!
A 45-year-old man was pulled unconscious from a house fire by firefighters in Muirhouse last night. The rescue took place at nine-storey Gunnet Court shortly before 6.30pm.
When firefighters arrived at the scene, they discovered a fire in the lower level living room of a two-storey maisonette. Fire crews wearing breathing apparatus entered the property and pulled the unconscious occupier to safety. The man was given oxygen at the scene for smoke inhalation before being passed into the care of ambulance crews and was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for treatment.
Six firefighters wearing breathing apparatus and using two main jets extinguished the blaze within the hour.
The cause of the fire is not yet known.
Local organisation Pilton Equalities Project is looking for help with an unusual request. PEP is seeking … binoculars! No, they haven’t lost one of their minibuses – the binoculars are needed for a project they are currently planning.
So if you have any binoculars tucked away somewhere – large or small, any condition – PEP would like to hear from you. If you can help, call PEP on 315 4466 or email pepequalities@btconnect.com
Scotland has a proud history of producing internationally renowned writers, from Burns, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson to contemporary talents like Hugh MacDairmid, Liz Lochhead and Irvine Welsh. If you’d like to learn more about modern Scottish literature there’s a free course starting at The Prentice Centre later this month that’s just ‘write’ for you!
Starting on 23 January, ‘Modern Scottish Literature’ is a 8 – 10 week course that will run on Monday afternoons from 2.30 – 4.30pm in The Prentice Centre. Supported by the Workers Education Association and Prentice Centre’s Adult Education Group, the course is free to all participants.
The course tutor is Derek Suttie (pictured), who is no stranger to The Prentice Centre. Derek was formerly Senior Community Education worker based at the centre in Granton Mains Avenue until he retired last year.
For further information on ‘Modern Scottish Literature’ or to book your place on the course please contact The Prentice Centre on 552 0485 or WEA on 225 2580.
Scotland has a proud history of producing internationally renowned writers, from Burns, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson to contemporary talents like Hugh MacDairmid, Liz Lochhead and Irvine Welsh. If you’d like to learn more about modern Scottish literature there’s a free course starting at The Prentice Centre later this month that’s just ‘write’ for you!
Starting on 23 January, ‘Modern Scottish Literature’ is a 8 – 10 week course that will run on Monday afternoons from 2.30 – 4.30pm in The Prentice Centre. Supported by the Workers Education Association and Prentice Centre’s Adult Education Group, the course is free to all participants.
The course tutor is Derek Suttie (pictured), who is no stranger to The Prentice Centre. Derek was formerly Senior Community Education worker based at the centre in Granton Mains Avenue until he retired last year.
For further information on ‘Modern Scottish Literature’ or to book your place on the course please contact The Prentice Centre on 552 0485 or WEA on 225 2580.
