Scotland's capital Edinburgh boasts a beautiful, hilly landscape, a robust education system and good access to grant funding, public and private investment.
Timber Development UK launches Sustainability Committee 25 May, 2021 SHARE Timber Development UK (TDUK) is setting out to improve on the strong sustainability record of the industry by launching a cross-sector Sustainability Committee.
The committee will be tasked to identify key sustainability issues that affect the specification of timber in construction and take actions to overcome them, whether by developing information and guidance to cover these issues, or by commissioning research.
Timber Development UK is the new trade body created by the recent merger of the Timber Trade Federation (TTF) and Timber Research and Development Association (TRADA).
Already several key themes have been identified as requiring investigation, and sub-committees have been proposed with the following remits:
The decision to stop using the AstraZeneca vaccine in under 40s due to blood clots has drawn attention to the risks girls take month in month out when using contraception. Some types of the combined pill have a blood clot risk more than 100 times that of the AstraZeneca vaccine but are still widely used.
I’m feeling quite bemused at the chat of the risk of blood clot with the AstraZeneca vaccine. Not to dismiss risks – but I’ve been prescribed the combined pill to manage my endometriosis symptoms. That comes with 1 in 1000 chance of blood clot. Women are expected to live with it.
FIDA launch new open access Education from Scotland
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Wednesday 12th May 2021 sees the launch of FIDA (Futures Institute at Dollar Academy) – an open-access online learning platform that empowers young people to learn in new ways, through innovative projects rooted in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). It has been created to address three fundamental challenges – sustainability, equitable access to education, and the need for curricular reform.
The platform enables young people to work with experts from industry and universities to better understand, and design solutions to, some of the most complex challenges we face, such as climate change, poverty, and social injustice. There is a wide variety of ways young people can get involved, with a core offering of 17 Global Challenges – one for each of the UN SDGs.
Our latest edition of Galloway People features Corsock s Martha Schofield
The globetrotting florist has put her roots down at last and tells of her labour-of-love cottage.
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Martha Schofield outside the farmhouse which the couple have been renovating for seven years (Image: Dumfries and Galloway Standard)
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