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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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  ...
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 ...
Richard Leonard speaking at the No News Is Bad News event | Photo by Iain McLellan

Richard Leonard MSP calls for a Scottish government fund to relocalise and democratise media ownership

Delivering opening remarks at The Scottish Beacon’s Indie News Week event MSP Richard Leonard delivered ...

Indie news publishers call for Scottish Government support to help local news thrive

On 7 June, over 80 people from across Scotland and beyond gathered in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket ...
Some of Scotland's community spaces

The Scottish Beacon collaborative: What’s happening to Scotland’s community spaces?

“The guy who started it all off had seen the state of the Millburn Church ...

No. 154 McDonald Road – 10 years on

Rise of a local institution Broughton Primary and Higher Grade School opened in November 1896 ...

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