Shopping centre ‘buzzing’ for display of 50,000 bees
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5 years ago
A SHOPPING centre will be buzzing with the arrival of 50,000 honeybees this week. They will be on display at Silverburn, Glasgow, thankfully behind glass, in their own beehive in the centre mall. The event is part of Meet The Bees events in Scotland’s leading shopping centres to promote biodiversity in our cities. Visitors will have a chance to get up close with the bees, adopt one of their own, look inside a beehive and try on a beekeeper’s suit, alongside activities and workshops for young children. Alison Bell, from Plan Bee said: “There are a lot of misconceptions about bees and pollinators.”
10 years ago
HUNDREDS of people have signed a petition calling for the uniforms designed for Scottish athletes at the Glasgow 2014 opening ceremony to be scrapped. The clothing, by Jilli Blackwood, has split opinion and amid a growing backlash the Scottish Government is being called upon to intervene. One petition, signed by almost 1,700 people, is titled Prevent the Use of the Jilli Blackwood Scotland Uniforms. It states: “The uniforms being used are truly horrendous. Please step in and prevent them being used while there’s still time for an emergency Plan B - before our poor, bravefaced athletes are subjected to parading around in them.”
25 years ago
THE founder and director of the award-winning Glasgow-based company Theatre Cryptic, Ms Cathie Boyd, received a double accolade yesterday when she was announced as the winner of the European Woman of Achievement Awards, and her company was granted a £95,000 lottery award to commission new work, writes Michael Tumelty. Ms Boyd won the arts category of the EWA awards, which are designed to identify “talented women who possess both courage and determination, and who are recognised as initiators on a corporate, cultural, and humanitarian level”. She was one of five nominees in a distinguished arts category which included soprano Dame Felicity Lott and Pauline Tambling, director of Education and Training for the Arts Council of England.
50 years ago
MR William Ross, Secretary of State for Scotland, has decided that the industrial future of the Hunterston site lies with the steel industry, supported by work on offshore oil platforms. He has decided against oil refinery development there, largely on safety grounds. Announcing his decisions to the House of Commons yesterday Mr Ross said the British Steel Corporation is to build a £15m direct reduction plant on the peninsula, the first of its kind in Britain. It will produce 400,000 metric tonnes a year of iron feed for electric arc furnaces. But his main hope is that the corporation will elect to build an electric arc plant.
100 years ago
INTERESTING facts concerning the twelve letters and documents relating to Mary Queen of Scots which were recently bought for the Scottish nation were given by Dr W. Seton, lecturer in Scottish History, to an audience at University College, London, yesterday. The documents were on public view throughout the day. They were a series covering the period from the time Mary was ten months old up to the closing years of her life.