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Stagecoach East Scotland: updated information for customers
3rd August 2020Stagecoach East Scotland has today issued updated information advice for its customers on timetables, accessing service information and buying tickets. Timetables From today (Monday 3 August), services will return to pre-Covid-19 levels and some routes that haven’t been able to operate for the last few months will return to…
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Baby loss charity launches ‘K for Kindness’ awareness campaign
3rd August 2020Local charity, Held In Our Hearts has launched their latest awareness campaign focusing on acts of kindness for the month of August. It is this attribute which the charity feels has helped them survive through the last 4 months – kindness to each other, kindness to the families they support,…
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Edinburgh Hotel Chef’s Recipe for Success
3rd August 2020AN EDINBURGH hotel chef who fed thousands of NHS workers during the Coronavirus pandemic reveals how they helped fuel frontline medics. Alan Dickson, Executive Chef at Surgeons Quarter, was part of the star hospitality team which kept Ten Hill Place Hotel open to accommodate NHS workers for free in March…
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ScotRail reminds customers of timetable change
3rd August 2020ScotRail is reminding customers that the number of services operating across Scotland’s Railway will increase from tomorrow (Monday, 3 August). Earlier this week, the train operator announced that more than 90 per cent of normal services will operate from Monday. All routes will have normal early morning, late night, and…
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Historic reopening as Edinburgh Castle once again welcomes visitors
3rd August 2020Edinburgh Castle, Stirling Castle and Urquhart Castle open for first time since lockdown Edinburgh Castle made history today (Saturday 1 August) as the capital’s famous fortress welcomed back visitors for the first time since the site closed its doors in March due to COVID-19 restrictions. The Castle’s iconic doors were…
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Royal Bank launches ‘Tyl’ to help Scottish business build for the future
31st July 2020Royal Bank of Scotland has announced the launch of a new, innovative payment partner in Scotland. ‘Tyl’ is designed to make it easier for small business customers across the country to receive payments and maintain cash flow during COVID-19 and beyond. Part of the bank’s portfolio of innovation ventures, Tyl…
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Let’s get on the move again with First West Lothian
31st July 2020First West Lothian are pleased to announce that as Monday 3rd of August, the vast majority of services will be further improved, with many routes operating earlier journeys across the network, and more services connecting to Edinburgh City Centre. Now with a number of measures in place to ensure customer…
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More than nine out of ten trains on time for five months in a row
31st July 2020New figures published today, Friday 31 July, show that more than nine out of ten trains have arrived on time for the past five months in a row. In the most recent period of performance (28 June – 25 July), 95.6 per cent of ScotRail trains met the rail industry…
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Getting back into the office will be different, but it will be greatly to the benefit of the health and social fabric of the country
31st July 2020By Alan Gordon Rumours of the death of the office as we know it may be greatly exaggerated, but my goodness, they are gaining currency fast. It is little wonder. When the lights went out and offices across the country fell silent in March, the sentiment that kept people going…
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BT launches major new drive to support the 334,000 small businesses in Scotland
31st July 2020BT’s Small Business Support Scheme to help firms boost connectivity, cash flow and confidence following coronavirus outbreak Specialist help for small businesses available from BT’s retail stores – rejuvenating high streets and levelling up the country Launch of new support scheme comes as new survey reveals 70 per cent of…
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