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Hospitality workers in Fife and the Highlands are being offered the chance to enhance their skills and gain qualifications, as the Diageo Learning for Life: Hospitality Elevator course comes to the regions.   Launched earlier this year, the Hospitality Elevator programme is aimed at over 18s currently working on part-time or zero-hour ...

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has awarded a substantial boat-building contract to a family-run business based on Arran. Kiscadale Engineering / Arran Workboats Ltd has been commissioned to build six new work boats for SSC, which will be delivered to SSC sites across the Outer Hebrides from Lewis to Mull between ...

  A Rotherham schoolgirl has won a competition to create a soup label for the much-loved UK food group Baxters. Following an educational visit by Baxters Food Group Innovation Manager Darren Sivewright to St Bede’s Primary School last year, the junior pupils were given three weeks to create a souper new design ...

The MSP for Perthshire South and Kinross-shire is backing ‘The Big Declutter’, the theme of this year’s Pass it on Week campaign by Zero Waste Scotland, supported by European funding, to call on the Scottish public to declutter their homes and pass on what they don’t need anymore. On an average ...

This year’s national Pass it on Week, which takes place between 9 – 17 March, aims to illustrate that a declutter is more than just a clear out, it is a way to get the items you no longer use in to the hands of someone who will. New research by ...

Food Standards Scotland’s healthy eating marketing campaign encourages people in Scotland to say ‘no’ to upsized food and drink offers Going from a small cheeseburger meal to a large cheeseburger meal with a regular side of onion rings, and a small latte to a large latte with chocolate brownie could mean ...

The ancient craft of creating oak casks has been part of Scotch whisky for centuries, but the industry yesterday celebrated a new first with the recruitment of two female coopering apprentices.   First-year coopering apprentices Angela Cochrane and Kirsty Olychick – recruited by leading Scotch distiller Diageo at its Cambus Cooperage in ...

Almost a third of IT graduates are dropping out of the sector and failing to convert their qualifications into jobs. An in-depth survey commissioned by Scotland’s number one independent IT recruitment company Be-IT, examined the trends in the industry’s talent pool over the past five years. The poll also examined the experience ...

I’m a Celeb star Nick Knowles and DIY SOS presenter will join the line-up of celebrity ambassadors for this year’s Ideal Home Show Scotland which returns to the SEC Glasgow from 24-27 May. Visitors will have the chance to hear first-hand advice from some of the best loved homes and interiors ...

  Run with the support of volunteers from across the sporting community, WIIGA works in partnership with local sports clubs throughout the Western Isles and provides invaluable support to athletes to enable them to compete in the international competition every two years.   The 2019 event will see the team of approximately 40 ...