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Multi-million pound vision for People’s Palace and Winter Gardens at Glasgow Green

A £ 36 million plan is being drawn up to ‘restore and reimagine’ the People’s ...

Making big tech pay for the UK news they use 

The news can be a profitable business, but profits have been lining the wrong pockets. ...

BID for safer junctions legacy launched by tragic cyclist’s workmates

Urban design colleagues of a young woman who was killed in a cycling crash have ...
Clydesider as we explore the old Coffin Road that winds up and over the hill between Balloch and Helensburgh

Watch: Take a minute – The Old Coffin Road

Long ago, when someone passed away in the Vale of Leven, their relatives and friends ...
Illustration depicting people accessing healthcare digitally

Forging connections through digital inclusion

”It’s freedom to know that I’m not going to run out of data, and I ...

Shetland’s swimming pools and leisure centres reduced

Staff numbers have also reduced across all departments, according to Shetland Recreational Trust (SRT) acting ...
Two elderly people seated in a bench in front of the sea

Rising numbers of pensioners living in poverty

The rise in the cost of living is negatively impacting people’s lives, and older people ...

Saving hedgehogs, one of the UK’s most recognisable animals

Hedgehogs are one of the most recognisable animals in the UK. While they used to ...
Samira and Thaveshni from Kairos Kitchen doing some cooking

Kairos Kitchen: a healing space for migrant women in Paisley

How a cookery group helps Black, Asian, minority ethnic and migrant women to build friendships, ...
Photo of Fair Isle taken from above

One of the UK’s most remote nursing jobs available in Fair Isle

NHS SHETLAND is now advertising for a full-time district nurse in Fair Isle. The post ...
Lynn Cleal was awarded OBE for her work as chair of the St John Scotland Public Access Defibrillator Scheme, which was inspired by the Garelochhead and Rosneath Peninsula group.

How a group of residents became lifesavers for one peninsula

When ambulance cover for a community in Argyll and Bute was cut back, a group ...
An illustration about period poverty showing three ladies;two having access to period products and one not

Just how effective is Scotland’s free period products policy?

Free period products have been part of Scotland’s legislation since 2021 through The Period Products ...

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