The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011 Aug 5-29 Live Streaming

The world's largest arts festival with over 40,000 performances and more than 2,500 shows packed into 250 venues across the city. The fringe is open to all: anyone can perform and everyone does- from students...

UK University Clearing: 185,000 students chase 29,000 places

It should be a time of great excitement but tens of thousands of students are left feeling angry and frustrated as the government Ucas website crashes under four times the load of last year, whilst users who have...

Shell Reveals Size Of North Sea Oil Spill

Shell has revealed that a leak at one of its North Sea platforms has pumped more than 200 tons of oil into the water. Five days after it first learned of the leak, Shell has revealed that 1,300 barrels worth have...

English Riots Aftermath

2nd August 2011 Cameron in Bullingdon riot row with BBC The Prime Minister, was challenged by Evan Davis on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning about being a member of Oxford University's notorious...

Tall Ships Races, 21st-24th July - Lerwick Shetland

Strong northerly winds delayed 50 Tall Ships from leaving Lerwick, Shetland in the Tall Ships Races event last Sunday 24th July 2011. The fleet had been due to leave on Sunday afternoon, but began undocking at...

St Paul's protesters plan action during Lord Mayor’s Show

02 Nov 2011 The Occupy London activists hope to make themselves heard across the capital and for several more months, by setting up more demonstrations and by getting hold of sturdier tents. But they are...

British High Streets; The Mary Portas Revival plan

13 December 2011  Retail expert Mary Portas report for government on the decline of town centres says years of neglect and the growth of online shopping have left many areas "dying". Mary warns that many of...

Support for Human Rights Law Review in Scotland

EDINBURGH—International human rights education group Youth for Human Rights International today announced its support for the Scottish Parliament's review of the law to bring it in line with the European...

Coalition partners trade blows over voting reform

It doesn't really matter which voting system is adopted, whoever you vote for you get the same policies anyway.  Politicians make promises that the public want to hear before the election then break every one...

Stagecoach crashes off road near Aviemore, 4 injured.

Aaron Sneddon www.aaronsneddon.co.uk media@aaronsneddon.co.uk 4 injured as bus leaves road on A95 between Carrbridge and Aviemore in Scotland. The bus came to rest on its side. The driver sustained a...

New trends in ultrasound imaging: image fusion

This year's ECR in Vienna saw ultrasound become the next medical imaging medium to follow the trend of image fusion.Image fusion is the integration of real-time ultrasound images with those obtained through CT and MRI. Very popular in the world of radiology, image fusion has...

Has the sun finally set on UV tanning?

Within only a few months of the new Obama administration, it became clear that there would be a serious review of the tanning industry in the United States, with some States now already seeing higher taxes on, or tigher regulation of, the use of sun beds. This new legislation...

Peter Andre reveals his new fragrance Mysterious Girl in Scotland

Peter Andre arrived in Aberdeen to a flurry of fans at Union Square shopping Centre in Aberdeen.Images captured by Aaron Sneddon

Did the Scottish Justice Minister really order Megrahi release?

What really happened. Did the Scottish Government make the decision to release Megrahi, did Gadaffi order the bombing?It appears that Gordon Brown and the Labour Government facilitated every effort to send Megrahi back to his homeland. Was there communication between SNP ...

Libraries - SHhhh

Now, here is a story about a protest against closing libraries in Scotland. Closing libraries and cutting services is a topic as relevant in the USA as Scotland or anywhere I suspect.   If you go to a library...

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