Month: September 2019

New housing phase completed at Western Harbour

Housing Minister Kevin Stewart met new residents during a visit to Western Gateway  last week. The Minister’s visit marked the completion of the first phase of mid-rent housing delivery at Western Harbour. Continue reading New housing phase completed at Western Harbour

Eight million free period products delivered

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

Great British Beach Clean at Wardie Bay

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 join us!

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!

Impact of UK welfare cuts revealed

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

Blind cricket match will challenge MSPs to find out what it’s like with sight loss

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

A Fond Farewell: Oor Wullie’s BIG Bucket Trail weekend finale

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