Tag: London

A podiatry student from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh has been selected as an official torch bearer for the Olympic Games. Twenty year old Toby Harris, a 2nd year Podiatry student, is to be a ‘Coca-cola...

The First Minister is set to tell a London audience tonight that independence is the key to Scotland's future economic growth.Alex Salmond is expected to tell a capacity crowd at the London School of...

Britain will have a national high speed rail network providing vital new capacity and faster journeys across the country from 2026, Transport Secretary Justine Greening has announced, amid clamouring from protest groups about the...

Labour MP for Edinburgh East, Sheila Gilmore, is another of our Edinburgh MPs who split their week between time spent in Edinburgh and some time spent in London.She was elected to Parliament in May...

In the build-up to the London 2012 Paralympic Games, a Paralympic Flame Festival will be held in Edinburgh on 26 August 2012, it was announced today.The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic...

Mark Cooper has been offered a year long placement at ITV's London HQ on Southbank, but risks losing his specially adapted home. The 26 year-old has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair to get...

East Coast seem to have woken up to the possibility of being a viable alternative to the plane, for early morning travellers at least. The Herald carries the story that The Flying Scotsman will...

For anyone who has ever subscribed to the wifi on the East Coast line you will know that it is intermittent, but at least when it is there it helps you to work productively...