Transport and Logistics Network
DUMFRIES Rotary Club listened to a hearty tale of an exotic trip in an unlikely vehicle last Friday afternoon.
Alastair Johnstone, son of club treasurer Malcom Johnstone, detailed the epic journey he undertook on a rally from Budapest to Bamako in an o…
TICKETING
“Ticketmaster fees: ‘There’s a real lack of understanding,’ analyst says”
Quote from analyst Brandon Ross:
“The problem that you have is, I think there’s a real lack of understanding, sometimes from the artist’s perspective, and definitely fr…
AN ACCIDENT which led to a pedestrian being killed by a bin lorry in Alloa could have been avoided if the commercial waste contractor involved had not sent a vehicle “with extensive blind spots” to collect refuse, a sheriff ruled last week.
Margaret Jo…
The Scottish Italian Awards once again rolled into town on Sunday (November 27) with some of the country’s most talented chefs, restaurateurs and entrepreneurs discovering who’d been crowned the best.
The annual awards, which celebrate the special link…
A pedestrian killed by a bin lorry crossed the road in “a perfect blind spot” 18 inches in front of the vehicle at the very moment it began to move off, a court has been told.
Margaret Johnstone would have been invisible to the driver who had just got …
Charm, a sharp wit, and a wicked sense of humour can take you a long way as a journalist. Andy Nott, the former Manchester Evening News reporter, had all three in spades.
He was also a talented wordsmith, an astute collector of key contacts for getting…
THIS week’s food/drink business is The Sussex Peasant, a mobile food market. Nick Mosley asks Ed Johnstone the questions
I’m Ed Johnstone, 34. I was brought up in the countryside in Sussex and have always been very into good food, the outdoors, local f…
A fire engine built in Worcester in the 1980s has found a new lease of life on the other side of the world.The vehicle was originally built at the old Carmichael Fire factory in Gregory’s Mill Street in Barbourne on behalf of Cumbria Fire and Rescue Se…