Pressure mounts on Scots
Wednesday, 27 May 2009 09:10
Media Guardian
Scotland's national newspapers are in crisis as readership falls, jobs are cut and London-based titles muscle in.
Scots, once the biggest consumers of newsprint in the world, are losing the habit, with the slump hitting home-grown titles the hardest. The writing could now be on the wall for one or all of the three daily Scotland-wide titles, the Scotsman, the Herald and the Daily Record.
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Last-ditch battle for the future of Edinburgh's historic waterfront
Sunday, 20 April 2008 11:16
As developers plan to make Scotland's capital's 15 per cent bigger, city architects draw up their own bid to save its cultural soul
A massive redevelopment of Edinburgh's waterfront which will increase the size of the city by almost 15 per cent is attracting widespread opposition.
The last and biggest phase of the project, turning almost 300 acres of docks into 16,000 homes, is expected to get outline planning permission in July. But critics are mounting a last-ditch attempt to get the project 'called in' for scrutiny by the Scottish government.
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The bar is half-empty
Tuesday, 15 January 2008 12:02
"Don't head off into town and spend a fortune on weekend-priced drinks, when you can come to your very own union instead. New this term: fantastic, better-than-ever drinks promotions - trebles+mixer (incl Red Bull) for £2.50 - new DJ line-up, stilt-walking, stage dancers and fire performers."
This rather desperate promotion for the Newcastle student union bar tells a story. Those who look back fondly on an old-style university education may remember passing long hours in a union bar offering perhaps little more in-house entertainment than hard chairs, cheap beer and intense conversation.
Fire dancers forsooth, older readers may shriek, surprised at the efforts that have to be made to lure students into the bars that are provided for them nowadays.
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Quarry expansion set to go ahead
Wednesday, 24 October 2007 11:46
THE SCOTTISH government has ruled out a last-minute intervention to stop the expansion of Europe's largest quarry, Glensanda.
Tomorrow Highland Council will formally approve the extraction of an additional 400 million tonnes of aggregate, making the superquarry one of the three or four largest in the world.
Campaigners had built their hopes on the SNP government preventing mountain tops being removed from Morvern and blasted into aggregate for building roads in the south of England. The John Muir Trust, named after the pioneering conservationist, is backing locals who are "outraged" that no independent inquiry has been carried out into the expansion and that it has been left to the council to make a decision.
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Cuts at the Herald
Monday, 30 April 2007 12:33
I believe I speak for others at the Herald when I say I am utterly heartbroken and furious at the massacre of our once great newspaper. This whole issue is about far more than the fate of one group of newspapers. It affects us all in Scotland." This cri de coeur posted anonymously on the allmediascotland website was prompted by news that one of Scotland's two quality national newspapers is facing its third round of budget cuts in three years, this time to cut the annual budget by between £2m and £3m. One hundred jobs will also go from the three titles, the Herald, its Sunday sister and the Glasgow Evening Times. The Herald had been set a target of making 39p per pound for shareholders and, because it had fallen short, cost-cutting was deemed necessary - management had even asked staff for suggestions on how to save money.
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