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A team of handy National Lottery winners from across Scotland have joined forces to help Dundee’s wild birds by donating 25 nest boxes handcrafted during the winter lockdown months. Local winners Fred and Lesley Higgins, who won over £57M on EuroMillions in 2018, delivered the nest boxes to The Miley Wildlife ...

Lord Brodie, Chair of the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry, visited the now vacant Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh last week as part of the Inquiry’s information gathering work. Visiting the site of the hospital more commonly known as the Sick Kids, at Sciennes, Lord Brodie met with NHS Lothian staff ...

Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) is rolling out a programme of Gaelic Awareness training for staff as part of an effort to promote and increase the use of the Gaelic language in Scotland. The company’s board and senior management team recently took part in a course that covered the history ...

Online workshops designed to help small businesses hit the ground running as lockdown restrictions ease are being offered by Viridor’s Community Benefits teams throughout Glasgow and the Clyde Valley. Following a successful pilot last year which saw 112 companies sign up to the free workshops offered by Viridor, a new programme ...

St Johnstone FC’s Callum Davidson has been announced as the Scottish Premiership Glen’s Manager of the Month for March 2021 Davidson, who picks up his first Manager of the Month award for the 2020/21 season, led St Johnstone on an impressive charge to secure a top six position in the Scottish ...

IT recruitment specialists Be-IT have launched a new consultancy division of the multi award-winning company. The expansion will see Be-IT Projects use their pool of highly skilled technology professionals help businesses manage and execute large scale digital transformations. For the past 12 months the coronavirus pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on company ...

Ground-breaking medical device company ODx scooped a prestigious award at Scotland’s Life Science Awards. At a virtual ceremony celebrating outstanding achievement in the sector, ODx CEO Giles Hamilton won the Rising Stars: Extraordinary Talent award and was runner up in the Business Leadership category. The Inverness-based medical technology specialists are developing a ...

Zero Waste Scotland challenged pupils from Neilston Primary School and Busby Primary School to create a school recycling mascot at home. The competition saw pupils aged between 7 and 12 design and create an entirely recyclable mascot sculpture made from waste items found at home and accepted by East Renfrewshire council ...

The First Minister’s National Advisory Council on Women and Girls (NACWG) has laid out its vision for the future in Scotland’s progress towards  gender equality, as it comes to the end of its initial three-year term. In a next steps report to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP, the NACWG has laid out ...

It’s well known that leaving the car at home and wheeling out the bike instead saves carbon emissions being released into the atmosphere. Due to lockdown, more Scots have been opting for two wheels instead of four, with demand for bikes on the rise. This has led to people searching ...