FRIENDS of the Earth Scotland are calling on the Scottish Government to push ahead with a complete ban on fracking – or risk seeing its controversial use being railroaded through by Westminster post Brexit. Dr Richard Dixon, Director of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said they are “alarmed” to learn Holyrood could face a power …
THE ROYAL Bank of Scotland has launched what it claims to be the UK’s first tree friendly mortgage. It says customers can now apply for a digital first mortgage allowing them to share and verify documents online only. The bank estimates it could save as much as 4.4million sheets of A4 paper a year – …
SCOTRAIL has unveiled a list of its first 50 free fast-charging facilities for electric vehicle owners being installed at stations across its network. Four have already gone live, with the operator saying the rest will follow in the coming weeks. They are expected to use a 22kW supply charging cars in around four hours.
A NEW campaign is underway to save the last of the nation’s great ancient Scots pines across the Highlands – the origins of which could very well date back as far as the Ice Age. The Caledonian Pinewood Recovery Project hope to nurture new growth alongside the old surviving trees – some of which are …
INVERNESS, Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh are to share in £22.5million of funding to pay for five so-called ‘active travel’ plans for everyday journeys. The projects were awarded the cash from final judging of Community Links PLUS (CLPLUS) – a design competition hosted by Sustrans Scotland and the Scottish Government. They will pioneer cycling and walking …
RUGBY legend Stuart Hogg has kicked off efforts to get more Scots recycling ahead of the nation’s annual awareness week which begins next Monday. The Glasgow Warriors ace has teamed up with Zero Waste Scotland ahead of Recycle Week taking place between September 25 and Sunday October 1. He was joined by pupils from Oakgrove …
SCOTS based scientists working with Kenyans to protect under-threat mangrove forests are to be honoured with an award by the United Nations in New York today. The team from Edinburgh Napier University have been named winners of the Equator Prize 2017 by the UN Development Programme. They will receive a $10,000 (£7400) prize towards their …
THIRTEEN new faces have just been unveiled as community champions for Forestry Commission Scotland They will push events, woodland activities and talk to members of the public as part of the Volunteer Community Champion programme. It is run in partnership with the Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector with a goal to help educate people …
ANIMAL welfare charity OneKind has handed an 11,000 name petition to Holyrood’s Public Petitions Committee calling for an end to mountain hare culling. They claim they should be protected on conservation and animal welfare grounds. It suggests an end to all culling of mountain hares in Scotland’s National Parks introducing a Nature Conservation Order.
THE Scottish Green Party has released a short film as part of their campaign against fracking. It comes as the Scottish Government prepares to make a decision on whether or not to allow the gas drilling process. Fracking has been condemned as “dangerous and unnecessary” by the Scottish Greens.
