Mario Draghi and Carwyn Jones point to financial policy and currency issues
With the French economy flatlining for the past two years, with the country today facing its second dissolution of government within months and with open opposition to the EU’s austerity policy to pay...
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New award for MotoScotland – a model for specialist activity tourism
Inveraray-based MotoScotland is Scotland’s first and only specialist off-road motorbike training centre, offering all-in-training, skills development – and trails in 50,000 glorious acres of landscape...
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Mary’s Meals delivering food aid to Ebola outbreak patients in Liberia
The Argyll born and Scots-based charity, Mary’s Meals, is delivering emergency meals to Ebola patients and hungry children in Liberia, amid food shortage reportsMary’s Meals is delivering food aid to...
View ArticleMary’s Meals in action in Ebola-stricken West Africa
Argyll-born child food aid in education charity, Mary’s Meals, has been working in Liberia in West Africa since the height of the country’s civil war in the 1990s.Working from its established base...
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Mull bank manager, Larraine McDonald, abseils off Forth Rail Bridge – for...
52 year-old Larraine McDonald, Manager of Mull’s Tobermory branch of the Clydesdale Bank, was one of four roped-up Clydesdale cmployees who successfully abseiled off the landmark Forth Rail Bridge on...
View ArticleAddaction on addiction: call for review of drugs legislation in Scotland
The addiction charity, Addaction, argues, on evidence, that the criminalisation of drugs use is not supported by evidence.Today, 10th November, the Recovery conference in Glasgow [running today and...
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Scotland’s celebrity auction of the year for the charity of lifetimes: the RNLI
And this breathtaking fundraising event has been made in Argyll. It takes place at the RNLI’s Gladrags Ball at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow on 22nd November. All profits from the auction and the ball go...
View ArticleSalmond to donate First Minister’s pension to charity – for as long as he...
Scotland’s resigning First Minister, Alex Salmond, has announced that he will donate to charity the pension he will receive for his period as First Minister – for as long as he remains an MSP.Mr...
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Mary’s Meals’ founder appeals for those orphaned by ebola
Mietta has lost her parents to Ebola, which has killed more than 5,000 people across West Africa.Aged just 16 and with a one-year old son of her own, Mietta now cares for her baby sister, Hawa, too....
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Mud, guts [the brave kind] and community spirit at the first MACC Challenge
The first ever MACC Challenge – over a daunting 4 mile physical challenge course – took place at Machrihanish Airbase on Saturday 29th November and was a muscle-burning success, thanks to the...
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Whisker it: Movember madness onboard HMS Argyll
The Plymouth warship HMS Argyll’s crew have been raising more money for charity during their busy deployment.Devonport-based sailors on the Type 23 Frigate have been battling with each other to grow...
View ArticleScottish Community Re:investment Trust to transform 3rd sector finances
Launched today, the Scottish Community Re:Investment Trust is a new independent charity aiming to transform how Scotland’s third sector uses and thinks about its finances.The trust’s first initiative...
View ArticleMake it ‘One more for Christmas’ with Mary’s Meals
It this time of excess, it may be uncomfortable to remember those with nothing at all – but Argyll-born charity, the international ‘child food aid at school’, Mary’s Meals, has reason to believe that...
View ArticleGiggle factor on the rise as Stornoway guesthouse runs competition to guess...
In a light-hearted burst of serendipity, a Stornoway guesthouse owner , Ali Maclennan, is running a competition, sponsored by Tesco with a £100 voucher for the winner, to guess the date of the actual...
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Canary Wharf Arts & Events has fun on Red Nose Day
Canary Wharf Arts + Events team got in on the fun of supporting Red Nose Day – today.Seven of the impressive sculptures dotted across the Canary Wharf Estate are sporting comical red nose for the day...
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Mary’s Meals help children back to school in ebola-hit Liberia
Dalmally born and Scottish-based charity, Mary’s Meals, has resumed its school feeding programme in Liberia after schools across the country started to reopen for the first time since the Ebola crisis...
View ArticleThe Rob Roy Challenge: the ultimate fundraising adventure
Plans for the thrilling muscle-burn of the 10th Rob Roy Challenge are well under way with challengers reminded that the exclusive Barnardo’s Scotland discount code offer ends soon. Register your team...
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Revving success for inaugural Bike Fyne
The array of great bikes, above, that came rolling in to the Loch Fyne complex on what was a pretty miserable morning today, 12th April, were the first measurement of the success of the inaugural Bike...
View ArticleGround-breaking event for Glasgow tomorrow on radicalisation and child sexual...
roshni, the national charity at the forefront of addressing key issues affecting Scotland’s minority ethnic population, will, for the first time ever, host a pioneering event in Glasgow tomorrow –...
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Mary’s Meals crosses the one million threshold of children fed daily
Mary’s Meals – the Argyll-born global charity which began by feeding just 200 children in Malawi in 2002 – has, on Wednesday 20th May, announced that it is now providing one million of the world’s...
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