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2/12/2022
Four-day Week Trial Confirms Working Less Increases Wellbeing And Productivity
A group of companies that have been trialling a four-day working week have recently reported increased revenue, with fewer employees taking time off or resigning. While it's easy to understand the effects of a shorter week on worker wellbeing, the positive effects on company earnings and productivity may be more of a surprise - but research backs this up.
2/12/2022
Scotland's Relative Public Finance Position Is Set To Improve Significantly, But Only Temporarily
A report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies by David Pillips ,Associate Director. Scotland's underlying deficit is falling fast as the UK's is rising due to oil and gas revenues - but this isn't forecast to last.
2/12/2022
More Than £70 Million To Turbocharge The Future Of Clean Transport
A world-first heavy tractor powered by farm waste is just one of the game-changing projects benefitting from £73 million in new funding for the development of clean transport technologies. More than £70 million in joint government and industry funding to develop clean transport technology.
2/12/2022
Covid Vaccines: Should People Under 50 In The Uk Be Offered A Fourth Dose?
It's been nearly two years since Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive an approved COVID vaccine at a clinic in Coventry on December 8, 2020. Since then, almost 13 billion doses of various COVID vaccines have been administered globally.
2/12/2022
Cost-of-living Crisis To Hit Students Harder Than Expected - £1000 Worse Off
Students will be hit harder by the cost-of-living crisis than previously thought. Poorest students will be more than £1,000 worse off than in 2020-21.
2/12/2022
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Mission Progress Report 2022
This report published on 1 December 2022 shows the progress being made against the NDA mission to clean-up the UK's earliest nuclear sites safely, securely and cost effectively. The NDA Mission Progress Report (MPR) demonstrates the progress being made across the NDA group since 2005, and how much work there is left to do over the next 120-plus years.
2/12/2022
Gifts Of Christmas Past: Buy Secondhand To Give Your Loved Ones The Gift Of Nostalgia And Imagination
Christmas is a period for celebrating our relationships with family and friends - a time filled with nostalgia and sentimentality. Of course for many people it's also a time of conspicuous consumption, even if this year in the face of a cost-of-living crisis, spending is expected to fall.
2/12/2022
Success For The Highlands And Islands At The Scottish Green Energy Awards 2022
Organised by Scottish Renewables, the annual awards celebrate the achievements of a wide range of organisations and individuals involved in the renewable energy sector. The winner of the Best Community Project was Aros an Rubha.
2/12/2022
24 Ways To Waste Not This Christmas
This Christmas, the Environment Agency is sharing 24 simple steps that we can all take to make more sustainable choices. At this time of year around 30% more waste is generated.
2/12/2022
£15.4 Million Contract For First Cutting-edge Navy Crewless Submarine
Project Cetus will deliver the largest and most complex crewless submarine operated by a European Navy. A £15.4 million contract for a cutting-edge crewless submarine has been awarded to Plymouth firm MSubs by the Royal Navy.
2/12/2022
National Flu And Covid-19 Surveillance Reports Published - Under 5s Risk Increasing
Weekly national influenza and coronavirus (COVID-19) report, COVID-19 activity, seasonal flu and other seasonal respiratory illnesses. Flu surveillance up until end of week 47 Swab positivity for flu* has increased further and is now at 10.5%; it remains highest in 5 to 14-year-olds at 18.5%.
2/12/2022
£60m For Disabled Children In First Year Of New Scottish Benefit
Minister urges those eligible to apply Almost £60 million has been distributed to thousands of families with disabled children in the first year of a new Scottish benefit. The latest official figures from Social Security Scotland show the families of nearly 44,000 children and young people were receiving Child Disability Payment in September this year.20/11/2022
New Role To Help Reverse Population Decline In North West Sutherland
Boyd Alexander will have a key role in projects that support people who currently live in or are moving into the area. He will work with agencies and other organisations on specific projects to tackle key challenges, particularly housing, as well as other issues people face when moving into the area.
11/11/2022
Wick Seaweed Firm Snack Brand "SHORE" Bags New Investment
Since launching its 100% sustainable seaweed snack range a year ago, the Wick-based food firm's super-grain chips have become the biggest selling non-potato bagged snack in existing regional supermarket listings (Neilson data). They've recently gained new listings with Morrisons, Holland & Barrett and Booths1.
9/11/2022
Cost of living additional support in Sutherland
Sutherland Area Committee Members have agreed to repurpose two of their previously allocated funding awards towards providing cost of living support to local residents. Complementing the Highland Cost of Living Support Fund, this will help in supporting local initiatives to keep people warm, provide food and enable people to heat their living areas and live safely in their homes.1/11/2022
Orbex To Build And Manage Sutherland Spaceport
HIE has agreed a sub-lease with Moray based Orbex for the spaceport location on community-owned land on the A' Mhoine peninsula in north-west Sutherland. HIE has been developing launch plans for several years and leases the site from Melness Crofters' Estate.
26/10/2022
North Sutherland Health and Social Care Hub drop-in event
Members of the public will be able to hear about plans for a new Health and Care Hub for the North Coast at a drop-in event happening the beginning of November. The drop-in, which takes place on Wednesday 02 November from 14:00 - 19.30 in the Kyle Centre in Tongue, will allow those attending to see draft plans for the North Sutherland Health & Social Care Hub and ask questions of those in attendance – which will include representatives from NHS Highland, Highland Council and Wildland Limited.20/10/2022
Orbex Secures £40.4 Million Funding For Rocket Launch From The Space Spaceport Near Tongue
UK-based spaceflight company Orbex has secured £40.4 million for its Series C funding round, led by a new investor, the Scottish National Investment Bank. The new round of funding will allow the company to scale up its resources as it counts down to the first vertical launch from UK soil, as well as unlocking additional funding to support future projects.
19/10/2022
Near Me - Accessing Healthcare from Home
Near Me is a video consultation platform enabling patients across Highland and Argyll and Bute to attend appointments from the comfort of their own home - or anywhere else convenient. In September 2022, over 1900 individual consultations in NHS Highland took place using Near Me.19/10/2022
Double Hit For The Nation's Shopping Baskets
As inflation hits 10.1% Retail expert Dr Gordon Fletcher from the University of Salford Business School says our shopping baskets are being hit doubly hard, with rising process and shrinking quantities combining to create real difficulties for a lot of people. Dr Fletcher said: "As inflation returns to the reported rate from July it is a timely reminder that these are figures last seen in the year of the Prince of Wales' birth and the premiership of Margaret Thatcher.Search Our Site
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