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'Walter received treatment here, so it felt fitting as a thank you for the care we received from the unit and the hospital in general' The widow of the late Scotland and Rangers manager Walter Smith has presented a hospital with one of its biggest-ever donations 👇
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The correspondence, released to @heraldscotland under freedom of information, also shows that Carol Potter, then NHS Fife’s chief executive, was heavily involved in the writing of the statement, weighing in on individual sentences hours before it was published.
EXCLUSIVE NHS Fife’s own lawyer raised doubts about its explosive statement on the Sandie Peggie employment tribunal, and believed he had not seen the final version before it was published, internal emails show 👇
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"We need to listen to our young people. They’re not at it when they say they’re having a tough time, and the Fonagy review backs this up. "They’re growing up in a different age, with different effects on their wellbeing than we had. We need to stop judging them based on what we remember – or think we remember – about being young, start taking them seriously, and get them the help they need, when they need it. "Apart from anything else, if their world is different than ours, that’s not because of their generation – it’s because of ours." 👇 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘛𝘢𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘳/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴
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'Would they have embraced him or disowned him and then cancelled him — as they’ve done with so many others — because of some imagined impurity of speech or shared a platform with someone they considered improper?' 👇
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"It is astonishing that nobody is taking responsibility for this fiasco. Why has Hayley Valentine, BBC Scotland director, not been fired? Her annual salary at almost £200,000 - more than the First Minister - is safe. "Valentine was once executive editor of Question Time - the BBC’s most debased programme, a symbol of all that’s wrong with the broadcaster. So you get an idea where her talents lie. "The BBC Scotland channel has cost taxpayers around £200million since it was launched. Sometimes, it aired shows that literally nobody watched. Zero viewers. What a cosmic joke. "There was never any real commitment to making the channel work, there was never any thought put into programming. No care, no love, no attention. "BBC bosses were peasants in a palace. They had the chance to do something great, and blew it. "No wonder many see it as an act of deliberate self-sabotage." 👇 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘉𝘉𝘊
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'As an actor, AI is extremely dangerous for our community... It's not creating anything new' Outlander star Sam Heughan speaks out against Scottish investment in data centres 𝘝𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘖: 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵
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Maryna Zhuravlova has an idea for a tartan of tartans, if you will. The accomplished textile designer and tailor had her own studio in Kharkiv for 20 years. Then Russia invaded Ukraine, upending the lives of millions and changing her life forever. Ms Zhuravlova relocated to the UK, first to Devon, and eventually to Edinburgh, where she found a new passion, the traditional Scottish art of kiltmaking. Meet the Ukrainian designer helping to keep Scottish kiltmaking alive || Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco 👇
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