We’ve launched our #ScrapPlastic challenge, encouraging Sea Cadets – and you – to reduce your plastic use over 13 days, help clean up your local waterways and fundraise to get more young people on the water. Continue reading Sea Cadets launch #ScrapPlastic challenge
People living in Scotland are among the most sociable in the UK, according to a recent poll
A survey of 2,000 people in the UK carried out on behalf of National Express Coach, asked how often respondents visited friends and family living in another city or region, whether they wanted to visit them less or more and what was stopping them making the journey. Continue reading We Scots are such a sociable bunch: UK’s most friendly places revealed
A mum and dad who safely delivered their baby at home thanks to detailed instructions they received over the phone, have been reunited with the Scottish Ambulance Service call handler who helped them. Continue reading Grateful parents meet their hotline hero
Police are renewing their appealing for information after a collision in the Gayfield area. Continue reading Police renew appeal to trace Gayfield cyclist
Mums in Scotland are to be given more support to help them continue breastfeeding for longer through a £2 million investment. Continue reading £2 million boost to encourage breastfeeding for longer
Ambulance care assistant competes in World Hang Gliding Championships 
An ambulance care assistant for the Scottish Ambulance Service has competed for Great Britain in the 2018 World Hang Gliding Championships. Continue reading Ambulance man Mike loves hanging around!
Miles Briggs MSP has written to the new Cabinet Secretary for Health, Jeane Freeman, to seek assurances that she is committed to reinstating the 24/7 model for the Children’s Ward at St. John’s Hospital. Continue reading St John’s Children’s Ward: update ‘by end of summer’
Free exhibition open now and runs until 23 September
More children across the capital and the Lothians will be out playing in their communities this summer after local charities received a funding boost. Continue reading Away and Play: Edinburgh trio share in Thrive Outdoors funding
