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In order to take part, you’ll need to have a smart meter installed and your energy supplier must be signed up.

Millions will be paid to cut energy to avoid blackouts in winter 2023

X Factor star Rebecca Ferguson has called for an independent inquiry into reality shows

Rebecca Ferguson calls for independent inquiry into reality shows

Big Brother is returning for its twentieth series to its new home of ITV.

Big Brother producers looking for participants to apply for new series

Eurovision fans suffered a voting mishap through the official app

Eurovision app frustrates users in voting mishap

Ellie McLaren and Anna Scott pose at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow to promote the city's Piping Live! festival. Picture: Jamie Simpson

Anonymous survey launched to tackle Scotland’s ‘huge’ bagpiping gender gap

Chief entrepreneur Mark Logan: 'By making this connection between health testing and business support, we create an environment for innovation which enables Scottish companies to compete effectively, whilst bringing much-needed treatment solutions to the NHS.'

Tech tie-up promises to boost Scottish health innovation

Finland to teach Brits how to be happy on all-expenses paid trip to luxury Finnish resort

Finland to teach Brits how to be happy on free luxury trip - apply now

Westminster Abbey’s mediaeval Cosmati Pavement can be walked on by the public for the first time in living memory - Credit: Getty Images

Westminster Abbey’s Cosmati Pavement opened to public for coronation

Escape Hunt Edinburgh to launch new Alice in Wonderland themed treasure hunt experience.

Clues hidden around city for Alice in Wonderland themed treasure hunt

There will be free sanitary products, breast-feeding areas and more support for women on the day

London Marathon to hand out free sanitary products in this year’s race

Sophie and Pete, from Blackpool, have revealed all - Credit: Channel 4 / Gogglebox

Gogglebox stars Pete and Sophie reveal ages and real life jobs

A UK vape company, Blo Bar, has launched a new scheme to encourage users to recycle their empty vapes rather than throwing them away.

Free vape pen for users who recycle under new scheme

Experts warn that these common foods can increase cancer risk

Mike Tindall charges £20k to go shooting in the Cotswolds with him

People get to cuddle the puppies at Edinburgh Puppy Yoga

Puppy yoga classes come to Edinburgh

National Grid will be rewarding some UK households for reducing energy usage tonight

Households to be rewarded for reducing energy usage tonight
Some households in the UK will be rewarded tonight for reducing they energy usage thanks to a new National Grid scheme.

People of all ages were delighted to see the return of the Loony Dook and this plucky pensioner was determined to get a good view from the beach!

Can early retirement lead to a decline in cognitive ability?

The double McPlant burger is set to launch in McDonald’s stores on January 4 2023.

Double McPlant burger to land at McDonald’s stores - here’s when

Alcoholics will be offered ketamine to help them stay off the booze for longer in a new medical trial led by the University of Exeter.

Alcoholics to be offered ketamine in new NHS medical trial

Silentnight warns that Black Friday shoppers could lose out on sleep.

Third of people in Britain could lose sleep over Black Friday deals

Professor Mairi Spowage, director of the Fraser of Allander Institute, with Allan Wernham, MD of CMS Scotland. Picture: Anna Moffat.

CMS and Fraser of Allander Institute unite to boost Scots economic growth

Beer lovers in Edinburgh are needed to taste new brews for consumer research.

Beer lovers needed to sample delicious new ales

The ballot results for the London Marathon 2023 have been announced

London Marathon 2023: Ballot results announced and other ways to enter

Members of the public finish during the 2021 Virgin Money London Marathon

London Marathon 2023: How to enter ballot to race next year

This year’s AI Accelerator cohort with Data-Driven Entrepreneurship DDE AI Accelerator Programme manager Katy Guthrie (in green) and DDE programme support officer Fabrizio Formichella (centre) plus John Brodie (fifth from the right). Picture. Stewart Attwood.

Bayes Centre's AI Accelerator unveils latest cohort looking to unleash potential

See Me is Scotland’s programme to end mental health stigma and discrimination.

Opportunity for Forces veterans in West Lothian to tackle mental health stigma

Stock mental health photo by John Devlin.

Opportunity for Forces veterans in Midlothian to tackle mental health stigma
A national mental health programme is calling on ex-Service personnel in Midlothian to be part of a new Scotland-wide campaign to tackle the issue of mental health stigma in the veterans’ community.

The CNS-101 study has just started and NHS Forth Valley is the first site in the UK to recruit participants.

UK first for new Forth Valley dementia trial

Hebridean islanders, like these hardy souls evacuated from St Kilda in 1930, have unique DNA

Hebridean DNA study to investigate link between disease and genes

Mark Logan, author of the Scottish Government’s Scottish Technology Ecosystem Review. Picture: Chris Watt/Visual Media.

Bid to help Scottish fintechs harness £1bn global investment firepower potential

A person with suspected stroke may have sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes (Photo: Adobe)

Irregular evening meal times could increase stroke risk, study warns

Staff and participants from the 2021 programme. Picture: contributed.

Call for applicants for AI Accelerator helping start-ups reach global potential

The start-up studio launched by Bright Red Triangle, the enterprise hub at Edinburgh Napier, will operate on a hot-desk basis, initially from nine to five, Monday to Friday.

Edinburgh Napier University opens 'start-up studio' in heart of capital

CodeClan, Scotland’s national skills academy, is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2015 with a mission to bridge the digital skills gap and develop a new generation of digital professionals in Scotland. Picture: Stewart Attwood

CodeClan partners with Edinburgh investment firm to launch youth academy

Robert Downey Jr who played the most popular screen detective of them all, Sherlock Holmes (photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

It's elementary for the top named screen detective

The CodeClan-Tigers partnership aims to get more young people into tech jobs. Picture: Stewart Attwood

New CodeClan partnership aims to get more young people into tech jobs

Turning over your soil can slash the risk of heart disease, a new study suggests.

Washing up, cooking and gardening ‘enough to slash heart disease risk’

The 75th anniversary season of the Edinburgh festivals will be staged this summer. (Picture: David Monteith-Hodge)

Debates over the future of Edinburgh's festivals have been reignited

The hit Fringe show Doppler was staged in Musselburgh last summer. Picture: Duncan McGlynn

Edinburgh’s festivals urged to 'disperse’ from city centre

A student takes a swab for a lateral flow Covid-19 test on the first day of operation of new asymptomatic testing site in the University of Hull's Allam Sport Centre in Hull, northern England on November 30, 2020. Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images

Covid: Symptoms appear earlier than thought, study finds

Wedgwood

Edinburgh's Wedgwood restaurant announces dates for its foraging sessions

Hazel and Scott Cornwall from Dalkeith, pictured before Scott passed away in 2020. copyright Brain Tumour Research

Dalkeith nursery nurse fundraising for brain tumour cure after beloved husband d...

The Doddie Aid challenge starts on January 1

Celebrities call on Capital people to join Doddie Aid event

The World's First Edible Christmas Cracker

Pic Greg Macvean 21/10/2021 - City of Edinburgh Council
Lauriston Castle

Follow the festive trail at Lauriston Castle this Christmas

Woman sleeping

Going to sleep between 10pm and 11pm linked to lower heart disease risk, study f...

Both the Holyrood 5K and the 10K will both take place along a loop around Arthur's Seat, starting and finishing within sight of the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Photo: Ebony Pollard.

The Race for Life 2021 Edinburgh: When is it and where is the route?

Artists who have participated in the William Ellis One LP project include Johnny Marr.

Edinburgh hi-fi dealer making big noise with music photography exhibition

Anyone over the age of 18 in the UK can opt in to the antibody testing programme (Photo: Getty Images)

How to get a Covid antibody test as new UK programme launches this week

Why young people are being offered £5k to be reinfected with Covid

Why young people are being offered £5k to be reinfected with Covid

The original £1000 fundraising target was met in less than two hours, now Jog For Jugs aim to raise £8008

‘Jog For Jugs’ breast cancer campaign increase fundraising target

Pfizer said the jab 'demonstrated 100 per cent efficacy and robust antibody responses' (Photo: Nick Potts/PA Wire)

Trials show Pfizer's Covid vaccine is ‘100 per cent effective’ among children ag...

Queen Margaret University (QMU) will offer three credit-bearing short courses to help those seeking to upskill and develop professionally whose work or career plans have been affected by Covid-19.

Queen Margaret University offer free short courses to those affected by Covid

Around half of people diagnosed with MS have a progressive form which causes an accumulation of nerve damage (Photo: Shutterstock)

MS treatment trial could find existing drugs can prevent or even reverse symptom...

Could alcohol packaging be made to match the warnings displayed on cigatettes?

Call for cigarette-style warnings on alcohol to highlight dangers