Jock Mackenzie News Today

Live music and dance to feature at Newbridge Winter Solstice Festival

The University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus of History Richard Etulain points to his Spanish Basque-born father when explaining why he’s such a prolific writer. This year he has four new books being released, his 61st through 64th. “Dad always...

A look back at the life if Fife's world champion horseshoe maker, blacksmith David Wilson BEM, who died aged 85.

The first PhD student to work at the Plant Innovation Centre at Post-Entry Quarantine has been welcomed by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. First Assistant Secretary Biosecurity Plant Division Dr Chris Parker welcomed PhD student Tom Farrall to the department as he…

Date Time Turning a crisis into an opportunity From telehealth to virtual funerals, the healthcare sector struggled like everyone else to reinvent itself during COVID. For some drug and alcohol counsellors however, lockdown brought surprising results. Southern Cross Social Work graduate and MERIT Case Manager at Tweed Hospital Jock Mackenzie said counselling over zoom made his service a lot more accessible for people who could phone in from home. “I didn’t think group sessions on zoom parti...