Awards set tone for youth group 21st anniversary

[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] The Elgin Youth Development Group (EYDG), better known locally as the group running the Elgin Youth Café, achieved national recognition last week by winning the Community Based Youth Work Award at the YouthLink Scotland Awards. The award recognises the importance of taking a community based approach to youth … Read more

Primary school children master modern media

[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] In a press release produced with their teacher, primary school children have announced that they are using a remote 14th Century Scottish castle to screen a 21st Century film they’ve created. Glenlivet Primary and Tomintoul School have been working with artists to learn new creative skills using film … Read more

Parallel Pressures: a show with a message

[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] A new musical written and performed by a group of teenagers about the pressures they face has had its debut in a trilogy of shows. Parallel Pressures: The Musical was the result of a collaboration between Developing the Young Workforce Moray (DYW Moray), Lossie Entertainment Academy and 16 … Read more

Making sense of Brexit

[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] Moray’s MSP Richard Lochhead will host a public meeting on ‘Brexit and Moray’ with the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Government Relations and Constitutional Affairs, Michael Russell MSP. Members of the public are invited to attend the meeting which will look at what Brexit means for Moray.  There … Read more

Memorial Service for North East Police

[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] Over one hundred police officers and members of police staff who have died while serving the police in the North East will be remembered at a memorial service on Saturday. The North East of Scotland Police Memorial Service is to be held on Saturday, 16 March, in St … Read more

An evening of Scottish ‘noir’

[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Male” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] Elgin library will welcome Scottish crime writer Alex Gray, later this month. As part of her national tour launching her latest book The Stalker, the new DS Lorimer novel, Alex Gray will  deliver a talk at Elgin Library on Thursday 28 March at 7pm. Alex is a regular on the … Read more