Cheryl Peebles
Senior Features Writer, Schools and Family at The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee)
Senior features writer (schools and family) The Courier and Evening Tele. Scottish Specialist Reporter of the Year 2024. Enthusiastic (but not speedy) runner.
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1 week ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Cheryl Peebles
Talented young artist Isobel Storey hopes to honour a Kinghorn worthy in the style of Scottish painter Sir James Guthrie. The 10-year-old was inspired by Guthrie’s Old Willie: The Village Worthy portrait during a family visit to Kelvingrove Art Gallery. She and dad Andrew were so enamoured by the 1886 work they bought a print of it. And admiring the portrait hanging on their wall at home in Kinghorn, Isobel hatched a plan to do her own version.
Are you terrified of giving blood? So was I until I joined the 3% who do at a session in Burntisland
2 weeks ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Cheryl Peebles
Did you know that only three people in every 100 in Scotland gives blood? Seems most of the population are like me – either too scared of needles or just ‘never get around to it’. But reading that statistic made me all the more determined to roll up my sleeve and join the 3% who answer the call to ‘give blood, save lives’. Since coming within a hair’s breadth of needing a blood transfusion after giving birth, I’ve been painfully aware that anyone of us could need blood at any time.
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2 weeks ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Cheryl Peebles
The smell of toast greets pupils in the morning at Longhaugh and St Francis’ primary schools. If it didn’t, some children would sit through classes hungry. The Dundee schools – like others around the country – don’t just teach children. They ensure they are fed and clothed. They even help ensure there is food and household supplies at home. At North East Campus, which the two schools share with Quarry View Nursery, there are rails of school uniforms.
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2 weeks ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Cheryl Peebles
Having watched him shred contestants on The Apprentice I’m glad it’s me asking the questions when I speak to Mike Soutar. The Dundee-born businessman is famous for his merciless takedowns during interviews week of the BBC show. He famously caught out one contestant who claimed she owned several web addresses by purchasing one of them himself pre-interview. ‘I ordered products from your website 11 days ago and they haven’t arrived,” he complained to another.
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3 weeks ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Cheryl Peebles
When we arrive at Game of Throwings in Stirling we have to sign a waiver which warns this activity ‘could result in injury’. We’re about to throw axes. Real, heavy and very sharp axes. And I feel slightly nervous!The premise of the activity is simple. Throw axes at a target and the closer you get to the bull’s eye the more points you score. Think darts on steroids. Inside Stirling Arcade, we – I’m with my husband Keith and children, Alex, 13, and Edie, 11 – climb some stairs to find Game of Throwings.
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It was prom night last night for @BerthaParkHigh's first cohort of S6 leavers. We had a photographer there and here are the results. Good luck Class of 2024 in whatever paths you take! https://t.co/fvUYiXzYaT via @thecourieruk
Our photographer joined @Grove_Academy final fling last night. Here are his pictures of the leavers' big night. We wish you well Class of 2024! https://t.co/sxwzx8XEQD via @thecourieruk
