A project offering a sustainable, community focused future for Dumfries’ iconic LoreburnHall has been unveiled following two years of behind the scenes work by two Dumfriesbusiness owners working with potential funders, existing businesses, community groupsand Dumfries & Galloway Council. The Drill Hall Initiative, founded by Sandy Sweetman and Simon Robertson, was set up in 2020
Inspired by Wigtown – a campaign was launched last night to establish the rural community of Granard as Ireland’s first ever Book Town. It’s hoped that the 800-strong community in County Longford can reap similar benefits to those experienced by Wigtown, 200 miles away in Galloway, which was declared Scotland’s National Book Town in 1998.
Every year, up to 12,000 men with early-stage prostate cancer will receive the same invasive treatment as those with advanced cancer, which often leads to urinary and erectile dysfunction. But a new focal therapy that uses high focused beams of ultrasound (HIFU) or cryotherapy to target and treat the cancer leaving surrounding organs and tissue
It used ground-breaking Emotion Artificial Intelligence facial coding to decipher the expressions of participants as they watched sports on their home devices. The beautiful game of football only placed third on the list, behind gymnastics which landed in second. The experiment was commissioned to celebrate a spectacular summer of sport which includes the ‘big four’
The average Brit spends 45 hours a year – almost two whole days – talking about the weather, despite regarding themselves as ‘dull’ for discussing it, research has revealed. A quarter of the 2,000 UK adults polled confessed to always starting work-related client and colleague calls with chit-chat about the weather. More than three quarters
