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The excellent Pagoda PR team celebrated its award-winning track recording once again this week.  At the Chartered Institute of PR (CIPR) PRide awards yesterday the team was the highest winning, scooping four awards including three Golds and one Silver. The Gold awards were for: Scottish Campaign of the Year for Maths Week Scotland Best Event for Frame Technologies, The Secrets …

Maths Week Scotland returns for its sixth annual event with the launch of its biggest line-up yet.   From 26 September – 2 October, an exciting programme of maths-themed events and activities will be taking place in schools, science centres and museums across the country. The theme for this year is the beauty of maths, with events also involving creating …

 Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn, two European developers and owners of offshore wind projects, announce their partnership. Together the partners will generate renewable energy from offshore wind farms to enable the electrification and decarbonisation of offshore oil and gas installations in the North Sea. Any excess power will be made available to benefit UK consumers.   The partners will apply for …

Although storm damage can hinder public access to forests, deadwood and windblown trees are not always an eyesore: they’re an essential part of the forest ecosystem. The message from Forestry and Land Scotland is that sometimes our forests need to be less ‘tidy’. Managing deadwood is becoming a vital part of FLS’s work in Scotland’s national forests, both to enhance …

As this week the country basked (or baked) in a heatwave, many of us will already have one eye on our summer holiday.  Yet the two remaining candidates in the Conservative Party leadership election will be turning up the heat on each other as they vie for the keys to Number 10.   We’ll know the identity of the next …

The newest addition to the Pagoda team, our public affairs account manager Paul Murphie, looks back on the highs and lows of the past year in Scottish politics. If a week is a long-time in politics, a year can feel like a lifetime! Eleven months have passed since Nicola Sturgeon, flanked by Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, appeared at a …

In March, I was a third-year student staring graduation in the eye with a feeling of dread and uncertainty about what came next. Today, after ten weeks interning with Pagoda, I will be donning my graduation cap feeling confident and excited about what the future holds.     Being a political obsessive, I knew that I wanted to work within …