New age retirement: The shift to ‘pretirement’ – where people gradually scale back on work or change jobs altogether rather than stopping work entirely – has become the new retirement reality, according to new research. For the fifth year in a row more than half of those due to retire are considering working past their state […]
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I’ll stick to living. Death is just too expensive
Rab McNeil’s Week: In order to lighten things up a little this week, I’d like to talk to you about death. Yes, that got your attention, though one gentleman has run away. Never fear. We won’t be lingering on the gory details. It’s actually funerals I’m more concerned with, after a report by consumer group […]
Revealing life and times of the forgotten realists
Art exhibition: A forgotten generation of talented British artists is the subject of this summer’s Festival exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. True to Life is the first exhibition to explore the realist tradition in British painting of the 1920s and 1930s, bringing to light the work of dozens of once-celebrated artists whose […]
Interview: Alistair Campbell, property developer
New life for old towns: It was the day Her Majesty The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh came to town. Well, not quite. As the local paper put it, the Royal visitors were “in the Falkirk area”, actually undertaking public duties at the Kelpies and opening a new section of the Forth & Clyde […]
Why it is crucial to nurture young ambition
Career plans: There was a time when youngsters harboured dreams of becoming a train driver or an astronaut. Then came the idea of celebrity and the “wanna-bes” who wanted nothing more than to emulate their favourite pop stars. New research from Barclays Business Banking has revealed a far different attitude among today’s youngsters. It found […]