Deputy First Minister: ‘If you choose a local business, you are supporting local jobs’ – video
Scotland’s Deputy First Minister, Kate Forbes MSP, visited a popular bakery on Dingwall High Street – in her constituency of Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch – to mark Scotland Loves Local Week. Afterwards, we caught up with her and she...
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Revealed: The £283m impact of spending just £1-a-week more with Scotland’s local businesses
Almost £283m more could be driven directly into Scotland’s regional economies if everyone in the country spent just £1-a-week extra with local businesses. The significant financial difference that can be made – safeguarding the future of businesses and protecting...
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High Street Hero: ‘One day I can be dressed as a dinosaur – the next I’m responding to emergencies’
Special video interview: Watch as Scotland Loves Local ambassador Sean Batty meets Alan Sayers – a man for whom no two days are the same and whose work is credited with helping make the town centre in which he...
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Scotland Loves Local Week 2025: Meet some of the people who make our places
The theme of Scotland Loves Local Week 2025 is People Make Places. Over the course of the coming days, we’ll be shining a spotlight on the people, businesses and organisations who are playing a critical part in shaping a...
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TV’s Sean Batty shares the magic of choosing local
TV weatherman Sean Batty popped into a spell-binding Scots shop as he celebrated the magic of the nation’s local businesses. The STV weather presenter was at The Lonely Broomstick in Falkirk to mark the launch of Scotland Loves Local...
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It’s Scotland Loves Local Week: Here’s how you can get involved
It’s Scotland Loves Local Week – the time to celebrate and get behind the people who make our places. From Saturday August 23 until Saturday August 30, the team at Scotland’s Towns Partnership is championing the message for us...
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Giveaway campaign to mark launch of new Perth City & Towns Gift Card
A Great Gift Card Giveaway campaign is due to go live during Scotland Loves Local Week to celebrate the launch of Perth’s new gift card – the Perth City & Towns Gift Card – and a new partnership with...
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Celebrating the people who make Stirling
Stories of the people and historic businesses at the heart of Stirling are to be brought to life as part of an exciting new collaboration. Go Forth Stirling BID and Historic Environment Scotland (HES), with the support of Stirling...
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Choose reuse: Thousands get behind BID’s coffee cup project to reduce waste and boost business
Thousands of free reusable cups have been handed out to coffee lovers in Paisley to encourage consumers to choose reuse. Paisley First BID (Business Improvement District) secured support from Zero Waste Scotland to launch a town-wide reusable cup scheme,...
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‘Scotland Loves Local has made people a lot closer’
Some of the faces of Scotland Loves Local’s launch believe people now have a greater appreciation of the critical difference that they can make to their communities by choosing local. Members of the Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Milngavie...
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