6 d. ago Meet the Ayrshire businesses behind success of World Wheelchair Curling Championships

The smooth running of a world championship event is down to the many businesses and organisations which come together to make it happen

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1 week ago Scotland take silver and a Paralympic spot at World Wheelchair Curling Championships

Hugh Nibloe and Charlotte McKenna won silver and a place at next year's Paralympic Winter Games following the World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championships in Ayrshire.

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2 w. ago Scotland's curlers hoping for bumper Ayrshire crowd ahead of crucial match

Scotland's Hugh Nibloe and Charlotte McKenna are hoping for a bumper crowd as they take on Spain for a place in the quarter-finals of the World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championships.

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2 w. ago E2E Female 100: Sagacity’s success story under Anita Dougall

Anita Dougall is the outstanding CEO of Sagacity; she has been nothing short of transformative. She has used her expertise in strategic foresight and innovation to turn Sagacity into a leading data intelligence company. Anita combines data analytics with actionable insights, vital features in Sagacity’s success.

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2 w. ago China take gold at World Wheelchair Curling Championships in Ayrshire

The first of two World Wheelchair Curling Championships to be held in Ayrshire concluded at the weekend with China taking home gold.

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2 w. ago Stranraer wheelchair curler heading to Paralympics despite World Championship disappointment

Hugh Nibloe and his team secured their place at next year's games in Italy despite exiting the World Championships in Ayrshire at the round-robin stage.

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3 w. ago ‘If you fall into the dialogue of the far right, the far right wins’: Spain’s deputy PM on the need for workers’ rights

Yolanda Díaz Pérez’s leftwing government has championed employment reform similar to Labour’s proposals – and she tells British business there is nothing to fearSpain’s leftwing deputy prime minister, Yolanda Díaz Pérez, has a message for Labour politicians as the UK government’s employment rights bill takes its next step to becoming law this week: take heart from our success.With business groups in the UK issuing dire warnings about the impact of the workers’ rights package, Díaz, the minister of labour and social economy, remembers her own government’s battle when it thrashed out radical labour laws that came into force in 2022. “We went through nine months of hell, literally. We had the press against it, academia, research centres – everybody was saying this was going to contribute to unemployment and not eradicate it,” she recalls. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Scotland secure wheelchair curling Paralympic qualification despite missing out on play

Team Scotland secured a place the 2026 Milano-Cortina Paralympic Winter Games.

Events

3 w. ago Duke of Edinburgh given curling lesson at World Wheelchair Curling Championships in Ayrshire

Olympic silver medallist Scott Andrews gave Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh a lesson in curling at the World Wheelchair Curling Championships.

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3 w. ago All of Meghan Markle's business ventures ranked from success to failure

With Love, Meghan hits our screens this week but will it be a success or another America Riviera Orchard?

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3 w. ago World championship medal on home rink would be 'stuff of dreams' for Scotland wheelchair curling ace after battling cancer

Jo Butterfield is aiming to help guide Scotland to World Wheelchair Curling Championship success just 12 months after battling breast cancer

Society

4 w. ago Scotland defeat Japan but fall to USA at World Wheelchair Curling Championships in Ayrshire

Scotland are sitting at 2-1 after day two of the event in Stevenston as they go for global gold

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4 w. ago Charli xcx, Jade and Ezra Collective’s Brit awards cap a vintage year for adventurous pop | Alexis Petridis

Playing music that is as smart as it is successful, Brit winners made articulate calls for artist development – while host Jack Whitehall was brilliantly riskyThe Brits has long been in the business of underlining success; upsets and shock wins aren’t really the point. If they seemed moderately more exciting in 2025 than in years past, that’s partly because Jack Whitehall is a better, riskier, funnier host than anyone else offered the job in recent years – he mocked Stormzy for his promotion of McDonald’s, made a joke about amyl nitrate and called Coldplay “the musical missionary position” – and because 2024 was a vintage year for mainstream pop, dominated by music that was characterful and hugely successful.If Charli xcx – and producer AG Cook – hadn’t been lavishly rewarded for her agenda-setting album Brat, you would have wondered what had gone wrong: likewise Chappell Roan, whose ardent emotion both in and out of the recording studio makes her one of pop’s most cheering recent d...

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4 w. ago Scotland get off to winning start as World Wheelchair Curling Championships get underway in Ayrshire

The event got underway in Stevenston today

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last month 'I sat in a pub with £7.50 to my name – now I make £85,000 a year'

John Williams had next to nothing left and chanced everything on setting up his own business, which he's made a resounding success

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