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‘Relentless, embarrassing & cruel’: Report highlights social isolation faced by young women in Highlands

It is 5:35pm on a warm spring evening in Inverness and, as a 16-year-old, I ...
Edinburgh City Chambers. © 2023 Martin McAdam

Edinburgh Council denies services for children with additional support needs are being cut

The Edinburgh Reporter has been told that many applications for Enhanced Support Base (ESB) placements ...
FONDS images on display at Tramway

FONDS: New multimedia exhibition tells the stories of Govanhill through its most treasured objects

FONDS, a new photography exhibition, podcast and film will open in our new exhibition space ...
cars parked on pavement in Edinburgh

Edinburgh becomes first local authority in Scotland to enforce pavement parking ban

Following new Holyrood legislation, Edinburgh has become the first local authority in Scotland to enforce ...
Photo of Hedgehog Resting on Person's Hand

Hogwatch Dumbarton: providing lifesaving care for hedgehogs

Hedgehog numbers in the UK have dropped from an estimated 30 million in 1950 to ...
Person Signing Document Paper

Bank closures in Islay create concerns in community of being left behind

The recently announced impending closure of the Shore Street, Bowmore branch of the Bank of ...
The jarl squad marching up Commercial Road in Lerwick for Up Helly Aa | Photo from Shetland News

A historic Up Helly Aa in Lerwick as women join the jarl squad

After a long wait to become guizer jarl of Lerwick’s Up Helly Aa, local Richard ...
Craigeven Bay – where the line of the Highland Boundary Fault is most easily seen | Photo by The Bellman

Fossil find off Cowie (re)confirmed as oldest air-breathing creature

Scientists have refuted a recent challenge to the age of the sedimentary rocks off Cowie ...
The preferred ‘option 4A’ for Kilcreggan Harbour

£9.6m Kilcreggan Harbour plan rejected by almost 75 percent

£9.6m plans for ‘Kilcreggan Harbour’ were rejected by nearly three-quarters of the people who took ...
Feel Good Women's Group

From Isolation to Empowerment: Meet Glasgow’s Feel Good Women

Words by Samar Jamal | Photos by Rizwana Saeed At the Neighbourhood Centre on Daisy ...
A view of Orkney

Visitor levy passes Stage 1 in Scottish Parliament but cruise ships not included

A bill which would give Scotland’s local authorities powers to charge a visitor level, or ...
Shetland Women's Aid

Island victims of domestic abuse disadvantaged by justice system

The island-specific obstacles for victims of domestic abuse in finding access to appropriate legal representation ...

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