More than eight million free sanitary products were provided to school, college and university students across Scotland in the first six months of a world-leading new scheme.
The Scottish Government was the first government in the world to provide free access to sanitary products in schools colleges and universities.
Continue reading Eight million free period products delivered
Tesco Davidsons Mains store manager Nick and community champion Steven presented a cheque for £2000 to the Davidsons Mains Christmas Lights committee through their Tesco Bags of Help community scheme.
The brewing and pub scene across Scotland is booming, according to the Good Beer Guide 2020, CAMRA’s premier publication featuring the very best pubs to find a great pint in the UK. Continue reading Scotland’s beer scene is booming, says the Good Beer Guide
Saturday 21st September 1 – 4pm
Leith Community Croft, John’s Place
All Welcome
For the third year in a row, we’re joining the national Marine Conservation Society for their ‘Great British Beach Clean’. We’re also celebrating the things we’ve tried to do over the year, and that we want to make sure happen (writes KAREN BATES).
The Wild Ones and Wardie Bay Beachwatch have applied to Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) for Bathing Water Quality Monitoring at Wardie Bay. We want the sea to be healthy to swim in, and our environment to be as protected as it can be.
We are working with landowners and the Edinburgh Angling Centre to provide fishing litter and general waste bins and signage on the Eastern Breakwater, to make sure our places are properly looked after, and to ask people to help sustain it.
Wardie Bay Beachwatch represents the hopes we have for our wider environment. If we all act on a local level and take that with us into whatever we do, and ask others to do the same, we can help.
Please also visit our twitter page @wardiebaybeach for regular tweets or find the event on the MCS website, register and sign up there! https://www.mcsuk.org/beachwatch/beach/wardie-bay-beach/event/2019-09-22
Write to Karen at wardiebaybeachwatch@gmail.com for further information.
Looking forward to seeing you!
Thousands of families are being pushed into poverty – with UK Government welfare changes set to reduce spending on social security in Scotland by £500 million a year, Social Security Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said.
The 2019 Annual Report on Welfare Reform shows the largest welfare cuts since 2015 are as a result of the benefit freeze, two-child cap, and changes to the work allowance. Continue reading Impact of UK welfare cuts revealed
It’s just not cricket!
Except it is. Visually impaired cricket, played between a team of MSPs and journalists and people with varying degrees of sight loss at Forresters High School today. Continue reading Blind cricket match will challenge MSPs to find out what it’s like with sight loss
FIRST Minister Nicola Sturgeon was first in line to say ‘cheerio’ to a familiar figure yesterday as she officially launched the Farewell Weekend for Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail. Continue reading A Fond Farewell: Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail weekend finale
Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted and robbed in North Edinburgh. The incident happened around 10.20pm on Sunday, 8 September on West Pilton Way, near the junction with West Granton Access. Continue reading Police appeal after man assaulted and robbed in West Pilton
