Month: April 2019

Colour Festival: April plant of the month

Big flowers, small flowers. Climbing, hanging and creeping. For use in beds, in pots and containers, and in hanging baskets. The Colour Festival brings spring to your garden, patio or balcony in a flash. Begonia, Verbana, Gazania and Bougainvillea are all rich bloomers in different forms, so that they bring instant visual delight and experience to your garden.

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Biggest ever increase to National Living Wage comes into effect

  • Full-time workers receiving National Living Wage will be more than £2,750 better off a year compared to 2015, when the rate was first announced
  • the National Living Wage will go up today by the highest rate since it was first introduced, increasing by almost 5% to £8.21 per hour
  • 2.1 million workers set to benefit from minimum wage increases, including almost 800,000 retail and hospitality workers
  • increases to the minimum wage rates form part of government’s commitment to protect the UK’s lowest paid workers through its modern Industrial Strategy

1.8 million workers earning the National Living Wage (NLW) will receive an additional £690 over the year from today (Monday 1 April), as the biggest ever increase to NLW comes into effect. Continue reading Biggest ever increase to National Living Wage comes into effect

Outrage as Edinburgh residents face city centre curfew

Edinburgh residents are set to be barred from the city centre in a controversial experiment this summer. City chiefs want to make the world famous old and new towns a tourist-only zone over the festival period. Continue reading Outrage as Edinburgh residents face city centre curfew