Local man receives national recognition for litter picking An Aberdour man has received the prestigious Clean Up Scotland “Hero of the Month” award in recognition of his ongoing efforts to clear litter from Fife’s roads and verges and work closely with the wider community to encourage...
By Peter Duncan There can be few markets that have changed more over the last twenty years than the airline industry. Most of the changes have been positive, but not all of them. For example, I’m old enough to remember when you got onto an aircraft...
By Louise Robertson There’s no doubt that doing PR for a festival covers off all aspects of the media relations spectrum from the highs of celebrity engagement to the lows of good old fashioned working the phones, pulling in all the favours you can muster. Despite...
61% of Paisley people think better bins would deliver cleaner town Environmental charity, Keep Scotland Beautiful, has reported that a social experiment to tackle littering in Paisley has helped to clean up town centre streets and raised hundreds of pounds to support local good causes. The innovative...
The League Against Cruel Sports Scotland and OneKind have welcomed cross party support from MSPs to ban snares following a Scottish Parliament debate on the issue. Today’s (Thursday) members’ debate sponsored by South Scotland Labour MSP, Colin Smyth gave members the opportunity to discuss the...
by Andy Maciver Three minutes seems a fairly negligible chuck of time to shave off a race lasting two hours. In the car, you'd back yourself to be able to shave three minutes off a two hour journey by depressing the right foot just a little...
Our director Andy Maciver provided analysis last night on the first of the BBC Scotland Reporting Scotland election specials, on the day where the parties' General Election campaign got fully underway. You can watch it here under 'Late News' on May 8th....
Our directors, Andy Maciver and Peter Duncan, have been on BBC Radio Scotland over the weekend discussing the local election results. You can hear Andy giving reaction to the ongoing results on Friday's Newsdrive programme here (45 minutes in), and Peter reflects on the results as...
by Peter Duncan I had to check myself during a conversation last week, when I found myself talking about the “nationalist community” and the “unionist community” in a Scottish context. These terms are well established in Northern Ireland, but have not been justified in Scotland for...
Our Director Andy Maciver was on STV's Scotland Tonight last night talking about the Theresa May attack on Brussels, the General Election, Tim Farron's campaign moment and today's Local Elections. Click here to watch it!...