Three day 'green' festival starts (BBC News)
An event with music, comedy and discussions on climate change is under way near Aviemore....more...Maglev: The reality (EveningTimes Online)
IT'S a vision of the future which is already reality in China - and it could change the way thousands of people travel between Glasgow and Edinburgh. But it's a big idea and it will take an equally big leap in imagination and faith if Scotland is to climb aboard the maglev....more... From Humble Tampa Beginnings, Rhodes Scholar Garrett Johnson Has Bright Future (The Tampa Tribune)
TALLAHASSEE - If you have the time, come take a trip with Garrett Johnson, the kid from the Belmont Heights neighborhood of Tampa who became a two-time NCAA shot put champion at Florida State and who is currently a Rhodes Scholar studying at the University of Oxford....more... Study into 300mph city rail link (BBC News)
A feasibility study is commissioned into a high speed rail link between Glasgow and Edinburgh....more... Travel calendar (Contra Costa Times)
2007 Russian River Blues Festival -- 10 a.m.-6 p.m. through June 17. Live concerts by blues artists, food and wine tasting. $45-$80, younger than 10 free....more... Race hate attack on kids (icNewcastle - Sunday Sun)
Racist thugs turned on a Scottish children's pipe band at a North fair in an attack believed to have been sparked by simmering cross- border resentment. ...more... Can China?s maglev unite east and west (in Scotland)? (Sunday Herald)
Shanghai?s pioneering vision of high-speed public travel holds lessons for Scotland?s central belt traffic jam, say its backers. Ken Symon went to see for himself...more... Mathews: Abby Manz (Daily Press)
Splitting her high-school years between Scotland and Mathews, this senior is graduating with honors. Abby Manz wore her Scottish school uniform one day to Mathews High School so her classmates could see how she'd dressed every day for school in Scotland. ...more... Sturgeon wants £23m benefits clawback (The Scotsman)
NICOLA Sturgeon, the Scottish health secretary, signalled the start of the new government's first financial battle with Westminster yesterday when she told MSPs she intended to start negotiations soon to claw back £23 million a year in benefit payments....more... |