The Highland Youth Parliament (HYP) is delighted to announce the voting in of a new Chair and Vice Chair. Megan Travers from Wick High School will be HYP's new Chair, and Dougal Masterson from Dingwall Academy will be HYP's new Vice Chair for 2023-24.
ROBOTS at Sellafield are delivering breakthroughs at the site with learnings shared with the wider nuclear industry. The use of robots is increasingly commonplace at Sellafield, helping to make work safer, faster, and cheaper, and delivering valuable lessons for other nuclear sites in the UK.
ScotRail customers across parts of Scotland are expected to experience longer journey times as a result of the extreme weather brought by Storm Ciaran. A Met Office yellow weather warning for heavy rain is in place across the east coast of Scotland until 06:00 on Friday, 3 November.
The Science Minister George Freeman outlines the recipients of over £14 million in funding, aimed at benefiting the UK's thriving quantum sector. Science Minister sets out how the government is continuing with its vision to become a quantum-enabled economy by 2023 with over £14 million in funding.
Justin Addison (UK Delegation to the OSCE) tells the OSCE's Economic and Environmental Committee that Russia's decision to withdraw from the Black Sea Grain Initiative and systematic attacks on grain infrastructure has worsened food insecurity. The effects on global food supply of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, along with climate change, conflict, and the long-term impacts of Covid-19, are the main drivers of current food insecurity.
Our repayment call waiting times are currently far longer than usual due to exceptionally high volumes from customers enquiring about refunds. Customers should first check if they're due a refund using our dedicated page Repaying your student loan: Getting a refund - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Serious concerns raised by the Government over how a council in England is offering value for money. A formal notice has been issued to South Cambridgeshire District Council to ensure taxpayers' money is well spent after concerns were raised over its four-day working week trial.
The CMA has secured commitments from 2 of the largest digital players, Amazon and Meta, in 2 separate cases, benefitting sellers and customers by ensuring fair competition on their retail platforms. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today accepted sets of commitments from 2 major tech corporations - Amazon and Meta - as a result of separate investigations.
When people think of foods related to type 2 diabetes, they often think of sugar (even though the evidence for that is still not clear). Now, a new study from the US points the finger at salt.
The Bank of England keeps the rate at 5.25%. Even with a strong economy the Fed decided yesterday to keep interest rates at the 22 year high between 5.25% and 5.5%.
A paper at the British Medical Journal highlighted in the Covid Enquiry now ongoing show how wrong the advice during the pandemic was. The paper is by Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary care health sciences, Mustafa Ozbilgin, professor of organisational behaviour and David Tomlinson, consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist.
NHS Highland is pleased to confirm that Balfour Beatty has started ground investigations on the proposed site for the new hospital in Lochaber. Work began at Blar Mhor in Fort William on Monday 23 October and is expected to last for three weeks.
More homes and businesses to benefit from cleaner, low-cost heating - thanks to almost £65 million in government support for 5 green energy projects. Five innovative projects receive share of nearly £65 million to deliver cleaner, low-cost heating to thousands of homes and businesses.
Legislation giving Scottish Ministers powers to assess and remediate buildings within scope with unsafe cladding, where consent of the owners cannot be provided, has been published. Under proposals in the Housing (Cladding Remediation) Bill, the Scottish Government would also create and maintain a Cladding Assurance Register to give residents confidence about the assessment and works undertaken once those buildings are remediated.
An article at Nuclear Engineering International explains the problems surrounding the UK's plutonium issue. A new report from the Dalton Nuclear Institute of the University of Manchester explores long-term solutions to the issue of the UK's roughly 140 tonnes of plutonium, produced from its civil reactor programme.
A new Fellowship has been launched, providing funding for research into supporting the viability and sustainability of crofts and small farms in the North Highlands. The project seeks to investigate the potential of small to medium sized regenerative farmers to work at a scale that would allow them to supply to local hotels and restaurants, local shops and supermarkets.
Recent years have seen wind turbines get bigger. This increases the pinch points for long vehicles and components passing through local road networks.
The distribution of hourly earnings of high-paid and low-paid jobs and jobs paid below the National Minimum Wage. The proportion of low-paid employee jobs (based on hourly pay) fell to 8.9% in 2023 from 10.7% in 2022, the lowest since the series began in 1997, with the proportion of high-paid employee jobs falling 0.4 percentage points on-the-year to 23.4% in 2023.
Only "persons" can engage with the legal system - for example, by signing contracts or filing lawsuits. There are two main categories of persons: humans, termed "natural persons," and creations of the law, termed "artificial persons." These include corporations, nonprofit organizations and limited liability companies (LLCs).
