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SmartNews Keeping you current The burial site, which contains remains from both the Picts and the Norse, is at risk of disappearing due to coastal erosion Volunteers have placed sandbags along the beach in hopes of preventing further flooding. (Amanda Brend / University of the Highlands and Islands) smithsonianmag.com March…

Iceland remains the most peaceful country in the world, a position it has held since 2008 – Global Peace Index According to the Global Peace Index, Iceland is the most peaceful country in the world… 12 years running. Followed by New Zealand, Austria, Portugal and Denmark. Other countries like Bhutan…

Ministers and bosses from UK mobile phone operators will meet today to sign agreement New network will see greatest improvements in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Deal will take 4G coverage to 95 per cent of the UK landmass by end of 2025 Ministers and bosses from mobile network operators…

When you think about what goes on behind the scenes of the women’s fashion industry, what do you imagine? Perhaps you’d picture a large open-air office filled to the brim with women of all kinds, designing clothes, writing copy, and analyzing exactly what it is that women want to buy.…

 3 hours ago Che_Guevara: google sharethefiles, not like it's secret :) 3 hours ago marcus33: Any chance I could get the URL of STF? Sounds like one worth knowing :) 11 hours ago FesterBestertester: Hi Sparzy. Yes, STF is still active. not so much on tV series, but certainly Movies. 15 hours ago…

Finance Secretary Kate Forbes today visited Capgemini’s office in Inverness to help launch Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2020. Forbes met the tech consultancy firm’s latest group of eight cyber security Graduate Apprentices who joined the company four months ago. Following the meeting and guided tour of Capgemini’s cyber defence room and…

Golf is a concept, like death, seldom contemplated by the young. Or so it seemed to me for the six decades during which I declined to contemplate it, except as this: a peculiarly slow sporting activity that could be left to one’s golden years. I hadn’t come from a country-club…

FM 2020 Realistic Transfer Market Values - Change the Way you Play This project was made as an attempt to provide a "better" experience in buying/selling, and a more realistic league landscape in the transfer market. It's been a massive project, which started by extracting the information of every single…

Edward Hartwig Competing with businesses to recruit in tech jobs markets, many governments struggle to develop the capabilities for digital delivery. At the Government Digital Summit, senior leaders from 16 countries swapped notes on how they’re creating the workforces required to transform services. Matt Ross reports “One engineer, Marina, saved…

For as long as modern humans have been moving around the planet, we’ve been bringing animals, plants and microorganisms with us. But by introducing invasive species to ecosystems in which they did not evolve, we’ve unwittingly created problems that we now spend a great deal of effort and resources trying…