A dedicated Portobello teacher who has spent her career caring for young children is set to retire. Freda Ward, 67, is retiring after 20 years at Seabeach Nursery and almost 40 years in the profession.Fellow teachers at the nursery have paid tribute to the much-liked colleague, described as a familiar face in Portobello. Read more »
A couple who worked as missionaries in Kenya have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary by renewing their vows.
Henry, 90, and Margaret McCombe, 85, who live in West Lothian, marked 60 years of marriage on 1 June.
Happy couple George and Greta Marshall are due to celebrate their diamond wedding.The pair, who enjoy completing crosswords and puzzles, say the solution to a happy marriage is not arguing. Read more »
Published Date: 03 June 2009, The Scotsman
THOUSANDS of bottles of water meant for runners taking part in the Edinburgh Marathon were stolen before the event. Organisers said they reported the theft of more than 6,000 water bottles from two stations that left participants without adequate supplies during the race on Sunday. Read more »
Published Date: 02 June 2009, The Scotsman
By Demian Hobby and Craig Brown
RUNNERS have branded the Edinburgh Marathon as “shambolic” because of a shortage of water and a decision to cut short the race. Sunday’s event saw scores of participants treated by medics after the marathon got under way in temperatures of around 22C. Read more »
Targets to cut carbon emissions could lead 
to a upheavel in the US according to Rajendra Pachauri
Published: Monday 23 March 2009, The Journal Issue 21
The chief advisor to the UN on climate change has claimed that a US revolution could come about as a result of proposed carbon cuts.
Published: Feb 7 2009, Veritas
Veritas gets down in the dumpster in the hunt for free food.
With the country now ‘officially’ in recession, after the worst slump in gross domestic product (GDP) since 1980, unemployment is on the rise in all industries with predictions of two million jobless in 2009. Though quarterly student loans means that Scottish students are less affected, a high proportion of Napier’s international students relying on part-time jobs are less lucky.
But instead of focusing on the recession, and predictions that it’s only going to get worse, Veritas has hit the streets in its first instalment of ‘how to live for free…’ This month we look at food and the practise of ‘dumpster-diving’ – where people go through supermarket chain bins filling their fridges with food waste. Read more »
Published: Feb 7 2009, Napier University’s Student Newspaper Veritas
Students from 19 British universities have occupied floors, lecture halls and buildings demanding condemnation of Israel, responding to UN declared war crimes in Gaza last month. Read more »
Five Skinny writers are given the challenge of regaling us with their favourite travelling tales. We asked them to keep it short
Published: Tue 06 Jan 2009, the Skinny
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In an age constantly criticized for political apathy, ‘dumbed down’ youth and indifference to change, many see ‘activism’ as associated with jobless wasters shouting against an invisible enemy representative of globalization, climate change and all things evil. Opposed to all things violent, the Rebel Clown Army take a different stance on demonstrating their opposition: they call it rebel clowning.
Published: December 01, 2008, Veritas
Photo: Bill Joseph
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, stricken with fatal prostate 
cancer, will remain in prison pending his appeal
Published: Sunday 23 November 2008, The Journal Issue 14
The Libyan man imprisoned for the Lockerbie bombing has been refused bail, despite having incurable and fatal cancer. Read more »
