The Scottish Independent Retail Awards are all about local businesses for their local community. The awards look to give a platform to the local communities from which to voice their admiration and loyalty to their independent retailer of choice.

The World Cup is now over and the nation’s football fever may be coming to a close, however, for Action for Children Scotland and PG Paper their fundraising footie-fever is set to continue into 2011.

This FREE festival, by one of UK’s leading South Asian arts companies, Surtal Asian Arts will be held in Market Place from 1pm - 9pm on Sunday 25th July 2010. It will feature headline acts, local talent and a range of stalls that will be selling delicious South Asian cuisines, arts and crafts, fashion and presenting traditional story telling.

While the popularity of a celebrity, business or politician can sometimes be gauged by how many followers they have on micro-blogging site Twitter, a new study by a social media marketing company shows that even some of the biggest names in the world may be faking their follower numbers, including the British PM's Twitter page.