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Edinburgh College launches Virtual Professional Training

Edinburgh College’s Training and Development team has launched new Virtual Professional Training – providing businesses with a suite of online training options to help reskill and upskill their people. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the College has been agile, flexible and facilitative in its online course delivery – converting traditional classroom-based…

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Historic Environment Scotland sets out its plan to reopen its properties as COVID-19 restrictions ease

Edinburgh Castle, Stirling Castle and Urquhart Castle will be the first ticketed sites to reopen on Saturday 1 August Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has set out its approach to the reopening of its heritage sites across Scotland as COVID-19 restrictions are eased. As Scotland’s biggest operator of visitor attractions, with…

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Santander, QMU and Edinburgh Napier University join forces to thank students supporting the NHS

Santander Universities has teamed up with Queen Margaret University (QMU), Edinburgh, and Edinburgh Napier University to say thank you to students across the health professions that are supporting the NHS in the fight against COVID-19. A total of £50,000 has been allocated by Santander to provide gifts to 1,400 students…

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Customer Service Ambassadors prepare for reopening of Ocean Terminal

Edinburgh’s waterfront shopping centre, Ocean Terminal, will re-open on Monday 13 July, with measures in place to welcome back shoppers both warmly and safely. Home to leading brands, including Superdry, French Connection, Waterstones and M&S Simply Food, the entire centre situated in the heart of Leith has undergone a deep…

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Bike hire offer to encourage long-term take-up

Four month cycle hire pass for £10 More than 2000 free 30-minute hire bike journeys made Cycling numbers rise across the Capital Users of Edinburgh’s bike hire scheme can benefit from a four-month pass for the price of less than one, as part of an offer launching on Monday (13…

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Introducing our new 7 Hills Challenge in aide of St Columba’s Hospice Care #SummitforStColumbas

We are all doing our bit to ensure that important social distancing guidelines are followed so sadly, this year’s Dragon Boat Challenge, which was due to take place on 29th August, is now postponed until Spring 2021. As well as being huge fun, the Dragon Boat Challenge is an important…

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Four-way drive to help tourism bounce back

Edinburgh Napier University and Scottish Enterprise deliver sector-wide recovery initiative From April to June, four themed workgroups reviewed the challenges facing Scottish tourism as it reeled from the impact of Covid-19. The scale of the challenge facing the sector – one of Scotland’s largest employers – was obvious from the…

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LBTT relaxation welcome but confusion risks stalling property market

Rodney Whyte, Partner and residential property specialist at Pinsent Masons Scotland’s Finance Minister Kate Forbes yesterday picked up the property tax gauntlet thrown down by Chancellor Rishi Sunak and announced she was raising the threshold on Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) paid by home buyers. The Chancellor on Wednesday…

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PwC responds to Scottish Government economic update

Commenting on the Scottish Government’s economic update this afternoon, Stewart Wilson, head of Government and Public Sector, PwC Scotland, said: “The impact of COVID-19 on the Scottish economy is something we couldn’t have imagined just a few months ago, but the measures announced today, in addition to those taken by…

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Final properties released at Cruden Homes’ Abbey Gardens Development

Award winning housebuilder, Cruden Homes, has released the final seven properties at its Abbey Gardens development near Musselburgh in East Lothian. The development has proved hugely popular, with eager buyers having already placed a holding deposit on over half of the homes in the final phase ahead of prices being…

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