Account director at @56DegreesNorth_ | Award-winning former environment journo at @pressjournal and @eveningexpress ✏️| Always curious. | Usually snacking.
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Just watched the @LewisCapaldi documentary on a whim. Did not expect it to have me crying on a Monday night🥲but what an amazing watch – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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This might be the best/most chaotic thing you read this week. theguardian.com/music/2023/m…
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That moment when your best chum is on the @WomensPrize Discoveries shortlist🥳Huge congrats to @emkate_utter!
We're thrilled to reveal the six writers on the Discoveries shortlist! 🎉
This year’s writers dazzled our judges with their range of genres and ambition
Find out about Discoveries, supported by @audibleuk, @cbcreative and @CBGBooks, and meet the writers: https://teapawt.net/t.co/RMcuRzIfks
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Excellent piece by Anna Moore on how the murders of women by male partners are regarded as the lowest category of killings, and sentenced accordingly. theguardian.com/society/2023…
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Scotland's Deposit Return Scheme being delayed to March 2024. Rewind to *last month*, where Circularity Scotland's programme director told me "August 16, we're ready, we're going to be there", and it was best to launch and "fix the rough edges as we go" pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/new…
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I spent much of last week working from the six Aberdeen libraries soon to shut, speaking to the people there.
If you’re concerned about the closures, and those affected by them, please have a read. @pressjournal @EveningExpress @valmcdermid @Beathhigh
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John Cooper Clarke is easily my favourite ever interview. Made even better by the fact I only discovered who he was about 15 minutes before we were supposed to chat. That was back in 2019-ish, and if you're wondering what he's up to now it appears he's TikTok famous...
‘A billion listens? Is that a lot?’ John Cooper Clarke on penning possibly the world’s favourite poem theguardian.com/music/2023/m…
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🧵Libraries are one of the very last places in society where you can just hang out for... FREE. You don't have to pay for entry or buy a shitty coffee just to feel like you're allowed to be there. (1/8)
Aberdeen budget: All you need to know as libraries to close, school meal costs increase and council tax to rise as ‘deplorable’ savings agreed. @BenHendry1 reports 👇 pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/new… via @pressjournal
access free wifi and computers. They also have community spaces, kids clubs and adult classes. Some older people come in every day just to read the newspaper and have a bit of company. So please, if you enjoy reading - register and use your local library! (7/8)
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I've no doubt they led me into a career of writing and who knows where I would be without them. So thank you @silvercitylibs📚and please, join a library! (8/8)
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Had a scroll back through my photos this morning and discovered that on this day two years ago we were in the middle of a lockdown snow day❄️ Please enjoy this photo of Ollie posing with a snowman built by the kids who lived downstairs⛄️
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All this chat better not be getting my hopes up for nothing... @BBCR1
BREAKING: @BBCR1's Big Weekend coming to Dundee in May ow.ly/qEYb50MAiZb
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Who would have guessed that made up carbon credits don't actually represent real emissions reductions?🫠
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This has been in place in Scotland since June 22 yet totally unenforced by councils across the country. Last week I got a lunchtime baked tattie in a polystyrene box with plastic cutlery - both supposedly "banned"🧐I wonder if England following suit will change anything?
Good news! England has announced a ban on single-use plastic cutlery, plates, and trays, balloon sticks, and certain types of polystyrene cups and food containers. The ban will come into place in October 2023🙌⚡️
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