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Community, People

Recycling First Aid Kit Supplies – Can You Help?

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When we were recently replacing bandages and other items in our office first aid kits which had reached their expiry date, we wondered if, rather than just consigning these to the bin, we could find someone who could use them.

Partner Susie Thornton was aware that members of the West of Scotland Regional Maxillofacial Prosthetics & Service team at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow often make trips to India, Bangladesh and other developing countries to train doctors there. More

Legal, People, Think

Lending the Law a Hand

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As new rules on finance and insolvency come into force, we talk to a man who had a hand in their creation – Tods Murray partner Dr Hamish Patrick. More

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A New Twist to an Old Yarn – The Harris Tweed Hebrides Story

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In a remote area of Scotland set against the wind swept Hebridean coastline, rich with lichen and prosperous with industry, a client of Tods Murray and one of the world’s most valuable textile names can be found.

The story officially begins in 1840 – the Countess of Dunmore finding a constructive use of her time encouraged weaving skills within a small workforce of her own. This enterprising idea soon produced a marketable product, which was then sold to affluent members of her social circle. Thus Harris Tweed was born and so with it the island’s reputation for commerce.  More

Client focus, Community, People, Think

Eclectic by Design – An Architectural Round-Up of some of Tods Murray’s Construction Team’s Favourite UK Structures

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Dobbies Garden Centre, Braehead

The new Braehead Garden World sets out a concept for a new generation of garden centres throughout the UK. The Braehead centre is made from a timber frame and incorporates a grey water recycling system that helps it lessen its impact on the environment and reduce water consumption. The new Garden World also seeks to build links with local communities and has appointed a community champion who will be leading the Dobbies ‘Here We Grow’ campaign.  More

Community, People

Edinburgh International Book Festival

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The Edinburgh International Book Festival launched in 1983 but to understand its history you have to go back further than that – explains Festival Director Nick Barley.

In 1962, just 15 years after the birth of the Edinburgh International Festival, Jim Haynes and John Calder organised a Writers’ Conference at McEwan Hall. More

Legal

Are you really seeing Red?

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Perception counts. If I say “the colour red” what does that bring up in your mind? I asked five lawyers and received five different answers. They were fascinating. A traffic light, a love heart, danger, Liverpool Football Club and anger. What do you see?

“Beau Lotto spoke about the fact that we always tend to perceive things as being of a certain colour no matter” More

Community, People

Hope in Hell – James Weyers’ experiences working at Cambodian Children’s Fund

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“My name is SreyMom, I am fifteen years old, I am from Cambodia.”

The rest of the girls clap in encouragement as SreyMom masters her introduction.

A few years ago, instead of enjoying her right to education, SreyMom was scavenging in a pile of medical waste. Following a grueling day toiling in the burning rubbish, she would return home with her five siblings to their one room wooden shack, an abusive father and barely enough rice to survive. More

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Life after the firm

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We catch up with Colin Graham, one of our alumni who is now part of Nike’s General Counsel.

What is your current role?

As Nike’s General Counsel for Europe, Middle East & Africa, I head up a team of administrative assistants, most of whom are based at our regional headquarters in Hilversum, the Netherlands.  More

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Retail Arms of High-Street Banks still Hanging by a Thread

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Stopping short of taking a sledgehammer to the UK’s biggest banks, the recommendations for reform of the UK banking industry published in September by the Independent Commission on Banking will undoubtedly be just as painful for the banks concerned if implemented by the UK Government. More

Community, Food, People

Compliments to the Chefs – Andrew Fairlie

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Currently holding three Michelin stars between them Andrew Fairlie and Martin Wishart share their best seasonal recipes

A ged just twenty, Andrew Fairlie was awarded the first ever Roux Scholarship. The prestigious opportunity to train with legendary chef Michel Guerard at Les Prés d’Eugénie in Gasconyhas profoundly influenced his career, menu style and his culinary flair. Building his reputation in the kitchens of renowned Parisian establishments he returned to Scotland with his family in 2001 to launch his restaurant at the Gleneagles Hotel and Resort- since voted one of the world’s top ten ‘Greatest Hotel Restaurants’ by US Hotel magazine. More

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