The University of the Highlands and Islands and NHS Highland are planning to launch a new project to discover if a digital treatment can help patients on the waiting list for knee and hip operations. The study will see 100 patients from across the Highlands use Joint Academy, a digital treatment app developed by a Swedish digital health company, over a six-month period.
The Citizens' Assembly of Scotland model should be embedded in Scottish politics to give members of the public a direct role in future decision-making, the Scottish Government has said. Scotland's first Citizens' Assembly was established in 2019 to consider what kind of country Scotland should be in future and how best to overcome 21st century challenges.
Argyll and Bute is to be at the forefront of efforts to absorb and store carbon from the atmosphere, in ways that also generate economic and community benefits. HIE is leading a major project to explore and quantify commercial opportunities associated with carbon sequestration across the local authority area.
Total of £5 million committed to fight pandemic. Extra funds worth £1.5 million are to be committed by the Scottish Government to aid the response to COVID-19 in Malawi, Rwanda and Zambia.
Children's services across the UK have been informed of our intention to temporarily mandate the scheme. the Minister for Safe and Legal Migration, Kevin Foster, has written to all local authorities with children's services across the UK to inform them of the government’s intention to temporarily mandate the National Transfer Scheme.
£200 million to help children and young people impacted by poverty. All school pupils experiencing poverty will benefit from targeted funding in 2022-23 to help close the attainment gap.
3,080 new cases of COVID-19 reported. 41,801 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results 7.8% of these were positive.
A new pilot project has been launched with the aim of increasing diversity in nature-based jobs. CEMVO Scotland and NatureScot have partnered on the Ethnicity in Nature Programme, which will provide four mentored placements for minority ethnic young people aged 18-29.
New measures to expand numbers and restore biodiversity. The Scottish Government will actively support the expansion of the beaver population, promoting translocation, which involves safely trapping and moving beavers to a more suitable area.
Grants of up to £2,500 are now available to businesses to improve ventilation and air quality on their premises to help reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission. This could include installing carbon dioxide monitors or repairs to windows and vents.
This autumn the UK has had between 30,000 and 50,000 new COVID cases each day, and globally cases are rising again after months of steady decline - so much so that many countries are reintroducing measures to curb the virus. Austria is back in lockdown, with other European countries considering similar measures.
Scotland's onshore GDP grew by 0.4% in September, according to statistics announced today by the Chief Statistician. Output is now 1.1% below the pre-pandemic level in February 2020.
The UK economy has been reliant on carrying goods by road for decades. In recent months a lack of HGV drivers has been one of the main reasons for food shortages on supermarket shelves.
It arrived in a blaze of publicity with its bright blue livery and £20 one-way tickets from Edinburgh to London - a fraction of the usual price. New player Lumo, a subsidiary of Scottish transport operator FirstGroup, is putting up two trains daily between the two capitals.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (November, 23rd) sold 26 prime cattle at its Christmas Show & Sale sponsored by Highland Tractors and judged by F Hutcheson Esq, Fraser Brothers, Butchers, Dingwall. Prime bullocks (4) averaged 262.3p (N/C) and sold to 336.2p per kg and £2,000.39 gross.
Over 100 organisations have received a £1.5 million funding boost to help revitalise cities, town centres and neighbourhoods across Scotland. The first round of grants from the Scotland Loves Local (SLL) Fund are worth £14,000 on average and are being distributed to businesses and development organisations.
The Scotland Loves Local Gift Card is the innovative new way of keeping spend local for longer in every community and region across Scotland. Registering your business Registering is simple and it's free for your business to participate and receive payments through the card.
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Councils will be given powers to ensure short-term lets are safe and meet the needs of their local communities under legislation laid before the Scottish Parliament. Under the legislation, all local authorities will be required to establish a short-term lets licensing scheme by October 2022.
