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Image: Govanhill artists about to board the protest bus to parliament. Credit: Devon McCole

Govanhill artists welcome u-turn on Creative Scotland funding, but vow to continue to fight

“While we’re encouraged by the Scottish Government’s decision to reinstate funding for the Open Fund, ...

By Greater Govanhill, Devon McCole

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100 days of the Green Transition

Scottish Beacon launches ‘100 Days of the Green Transition’

At the Scottish Beacon, we’re excited to announce our new partnership with Local Storytelling Exchange, ...

By The Scottish Beacon

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Photos by Caroline Finn

Little Threads of Joy: Meet the ladies making a difference one stitch at a time

If Mags Reid’s actual smile was as wide as her phone smile, I was looking ...

By Annie Jordan, The Clydesider

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Invisible Cities tour guide Angie (left), sitting with journalist Devon McCole (right). Photo: Karen Gordon

Alternative Glasgow with Angie of Invisible Cities

Glasgow has a long and storied history, but too often the stories that we hear ...

By Devon McCole, Greater Govanhill

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The MV Isle of Islay and the MV Loch Indaal side by side at Turkey’s Cemre Shipyard

The Cemre Shipyard: Why are the ferries being built in Turkey and not Scotland?

On publication of each issue of the Ileach, we place an A3 copy of the ...

By The Ileach

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Layla Blackwell, photographed by Charlie Sherry.

Full Circuit: Joining the Scottish Women Warriors Wheelchair Basketball Team

At the age of 28, I used thirty seconds of bravery to change my life ...

By Charlie Sherry, The Clydesider

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Broughton Spurtle, Edinburgh hustings.

Citizens Agenda: What our partners did

Across Scotland, we have been asking our readers to tell us what they wanted candidates ...

By The Scottish Beacon

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Group of people talking at our Edinburgh event on the future of local news | Photo by Iain McLellan

Creating a Citizens Agenda: the issues people care most about

This year we took ran a Citizens Agenda project to provide citizen-centred reporting that better ...

By The Scottish Beacon

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Bellsbank foodbank. Courtesy of the Doon Valley Gazette.

Exploring the causes of food poverty in the Doon Valley

The Doon Valley sits on the rural edge of East Ayrshire, the region with the fourth highest child  ...

By Sarah Ade, Doon Valley Gazette

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Nick McGowan-Lowe, Rachel Hamada, Richard Walker and Joyce Macmillan discuss SPIJI and the No News is Bad News event in Edinburgh

Journalism experts call for government support for a Scottish Public Interest Journalism Institute

Journalism experts called for the Scottish Government to support the development of the Public Interest ...

By Roisin McCann, The Scottish Beacon

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