Monthly Archives: September 2011
Conservation Award for Penicuik Pete
A volunteer who dedicates hours every week to help care for Scotland’s countryside has been honoured by the National Trust for Scotland. Peter Coutts from Penicuik received the award for Outdoor Conservation Volunteer of the Year from Trust Chairman Sir Kenneth … Continue reading
COPD: Know it. Check it. Treat it.
COPD: Know it. Check it. Treat it, a campaign to raise awareness of a lung disease called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been launched by NHS Lothian in collaboration with Livingston Football Club to help find people in West … Continue reading
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Can You Eat, Shoot and Leave?
Bathgate writer, Clare Dignall’s Can You Eat, Shoot & Leave? (Collins, £7.99) is a sharp, humorous sequel to Lynn Truss’s 2003 masterpiece on punctuation Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Sloppy punctuation, like sloppy grammar, had become increasingly common when Lynn Truss … Continue reading
The Importance of Being Awkward – Tam Dalyell’s autobiography
It starts with the history of one of Scotland’s landed families, especially intriguing because of a willingness to permit the inheritance to pass through the female line. From a childhood in the idyllic rolling country of northLinlithgowshire to Eton, to … Continue reading
Friends of the Pentlands
The Friends of the Pentlands is a charity which seeks to protect and develop a love for the Pentland Hills. seeking individual and corporate members who share our aspirations for the future of the Pentland Hills. They provide outdoor recreation … Continue reading
Soldier’s Game
Eloquently portrayed, Soldier’s Game is two stories in one. Ross is a football-mad pupil at Bruntsfield Primary School and a huge fan of Heart of Midlothian Football Club. After a particularly humiliating defeat, his grandmother offers inspiration in the form … Continue reading