61 m. ago Paisley nursery praised by inspectors for “positive and welcoming ethos”

Jennyswell Nursery was inspected by Education Scotland in June.

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22 h. ago Jobs going on UK's most remote inhabited island with £41k salary offered

Fair Isle, which is located between the Shetland and Orkney mainlands in Scotland, is looking for a healthcare professional to provide a full-time service to its residents, and proud locals say it's a 'wonderful opportunity'

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52 h. ago Job opening on UK's most remote inhabited island with just 50 locals as huge wage offered

A district nurse/nurse practitioner is being sought to work on the UK's most remote inhabited island - Fair Isle, which lies halfway between the Shetland and Orkney mainlands

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64 h. ago Nurse needed for UK’s most remote inhabited island with just 50 residents

NHS Shetland have warned that a ‘high degree of personal resilience is required’

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4 d. ago Scotland's most remote island seeks nurse with £50k salary and perks

Fair Isle, a tiny island between Shetland and Orkney, is looking for a nurse to help care for its 50-strong community.

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4 d. ago Nurse wanted for Scotland's most remote inhabited island in 'unique' chance to join vibrant community

Island keen to secure hard-working and sociable new resident

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1 week ago Mjällby making minor miracles in an extraordinary Swedish football story

Former third-tier club with no financial muscle from remote municipality of 14,000 inhabitants lead country’s top flightFor Mjällby’s opponents, a trip to the far south of Sweden feels like a journey to the Earth’s end. “When teams come on here on the bus they drive and drive, through the farms, past the fishing harbours,” says Hasse Larsson. “They keep driving and then, when they can’t drive any further, they find our stadium.”They discover an institution whose heart and soul are rooted in Sölvesborg, a remote municipality of 14,000 inhabitants. Nowadays they find a club front and centre of an extraordinary story unfolding in Allsvenskan, the country’s top flight. Mjällby are four points clear at the top with 12 games left; they have lost once and, should they escape intact from a visit to the champions Malmö on Saturday, the unlikeliest of dreams will become vivid. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Love Island's Maya Jama says 'thank you' as fans spot presenting 'pride' in history

Love Island presenter Maya Jama thanked a fan for noticing a unique trait while she interview this series' villa cast members and announced the winners

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2 w. ago ‘A bellwether of change’: speed of glacier shrinking on remote Heard Island sounds alarm

Glacial retreat on pristine world heritage-listed island as temperatures warm could endanger unique plant lifeSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereGlaciers on a remote Australian sub-Antarctic island are shrinking rapidly, losing almost a quarter of their size in just 70 years, with researchers fearing glaciers on a neighbouring peninsula may have already disappeared.Analysis of aerial photographs and maps going back to 1947 were combined with satellite data to track melting on 29 glaciers on the uninhabited wilderness of Heard Island, 4,100km south-west of Perth and 1,500km north of Antarctica. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago From orgies to marathon sex scenes: how did period drama get so raunchy?

Non-stop coitus, controversial nudity and shocking sex toys: steamy scenes in costume dramas have changed since Colin Firth got his shirt wet in Pride and Prejudice. Here is an outrageous history of small-screen saucinessOutlander first sizzled our screens in 2014, with Vulture soon declaring that the period drama had “the best sex on television”. Its tale of second world war nurse Claire (Caitriona Balfe) time-travelling to 18th-century Scotland and falling in love with clansman Jamie (Sam Heughan) certainly earned the accolade. The wedding night episode features Claire reaching such an explosive orgasm that it requires smelling salts for viewers to get through. There’s a knee-trembling “castle cunnilingus” scene and, at one point, the extraordinary moment when Claire saves Jamie’s life by masturbating him. It has proved so popular that in 2026 its eighth (and final) season will air.In the last year we’ve had shows such as Carême, about a Napoleonic-era celebrity chef who like...

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