4 d. ago Edinburgh firm’s ‘vodka pouches’ hit shelves at more than 175 Scottish convenience stores

“Young Spirits is a fantastic example of a company using its industry knowledge to create something fresh and exciting for the market”

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8 d. ago New management at Falkirk convenience store can make changes after re

The shop near Falkirk Community Hospital was 'greatly missed' while closed

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9 d. ago Texas man facing execution, 13 years to the day of a store robbery in which he set clerk ablaze

A Texas man is facing scheduled execution Tuesday evening, 13 years to the day of a convenience store robbery in which he set an elderly clerk on fire in a Dallas suburb

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1 week ago Jo Malone launches new citrus perfume that's been hailed 'summer in a bottle' by fans

The new orange-scented fragrance to hit the Jo Loves shelves was inspired by Italy's Lake Como and promises to give you a glimmer of summer with every spray

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1 week ago People are only just realising how classic biscuit treat Wagon Wheels was named

Many might think the classic biscuit Wagon Wheels got their name because of their spherical shape - however its origins hark back to a cultural trend of the time they first hit supermarket shelves.

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2 w. ago Morrisons closing final of 17 stores today in major blow for shoppers

The supermarket closed 16 of its Morrisons Daily convenience stores last month and now its branch in Haxby is shutting today

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2 w. ago Scottish Grocers’ Federation helping Lanarkshire retailers prepare for upcoming single

The convenience store trade body has issued an updated retailers’ guide on regulations for vaping and tobacco compliance, as well as a poster which it is encouraging members to display in their stores.

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2 w. ago Beans are being genetically engineered to grow in the UK – but how do they taste?

Three types of beans have been more than a decade in the making and hit shelves amid booming interest in legumesThe pan of beans on my cooker have taken a long time to prepare. It’s not just because I soaked them overnight and have now simmered them for about an hour: more than 12 years has gone into the creation and production of these beans. After all that, they had better taste delicious.These beans are the creation of Prof Eric Holub, a geneticist and researcher at the University of Warwick, who has spent more than a decade developing three new varieties of beans, engineered to be grown in the UK. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago £25 million boost for space and tech firms at Edinburgh Royal Observatory’s Higgs Centre

“Scotland has a rich history in innovation and technology and the Higgs Centre for Innovation in Edinburgh exemplifies this success” – Kirsty McNeill

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3 w. ago Gene edited fruits and vegetables that last for weeks could hit supermarket shelves

‘This isn't just good news for our farming communities but our thriving science and research sector will benefit too,’ a minister said

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4 w. ago Cyber attack on Marks and Spencer leaves Percy Pig fans in dismay as shelves go bare

Millions of fans of the M&S cult sweet were left wondering what to do after the shop was hit by a cyber attack - leaving shelves stripped bare of the iconic pink treats

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last month Edinburgh firm's new high street cataract treatment receives investment boost

Edinburgh Biosciences, the company behind a revolutionary new non-surgical treatment for cataracts has received a £2.3m loan investment from Contamac Ltd a company whose major shareholder is also a major shareholder in Edinburgh Biosciences.

Economics

last month Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata review – a future without sex

The Convenience Store Woman author imagines the creep of a new worldview, in a novel that highlights the weirdness of normal lifeIn Japanese writer Sayaka Murata’s fiction, characters do perverse things in order to “play the part of the fictitious creature called ‘an ordinary person’”. This description comes from Keiko, the 36-year-old narrator of Convenience Store Woman. Keiko’s conformist family and friends can’t believe she can be happy being single and working a dead-end job at a convenience store. Keiko finds an unexpected way to make it look as though she is normal: she keeps a man in her bathtub, hoping that everyone will simply assume they are a couple. A similar idea appears in Murata’s short story Poochie, from the collection Life Ceremony. A young girl takes a friend to a shed in the mountains to meet her pet; the friend is surprised to discover that the pet is a middle-aged man. Murata is interested in the lengths humans will go to in order to domesticate ...

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