STAFF at an alternative energy provider have put their money where their mouth is for their latest charity challenge – by hosting a brunch to raise cash for a charity funding research into a genetic disorder.
An Iceland store in Musselburgh has become the first supermarket in Scotland to install a reverse vending machine that will pay customers to return drinks bottles for recycling in a bid to cut the amount of plastic waste polluting the environment.
Coming to terms with a terminal diagnosis is not easy but one man is using his experience of living with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) to raise awareness of the condition and to bolster funds for its leading Scottish charity.
ATTEMPTS by a council to sezie control of Musselburgh Racecourse could “almost certainly end in court action”, the head of the region’s racing syndicate has warned.
IT was not under enemy fire, but under the surgeon’s knife in a British military hospital that Gunner Robert Begbie was fatally wounded while serving in the Great War.
A SOLDIER who lost both his legs in a bomb blast has become the first double amputee to take on the skeleton run - and he defeated the five-time world champion.
