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Creative entrepreneurs offered free places on RGU short course Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Graduates who want to put their creative skills to use to develop a business are being offered free tuition on an online course at Robert Gordon University (RGU). The university is offering 21-fully funded places on its Creat...

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: David Bailey has come to define the Swinging Sixties with his iconic black and white images of pop stars, models, politicians and royalty.

© Shutterstock / Sandra_M One of the largest touring exhibitions of contemporary art in the UK will open in Aberdeen this summer, with the city’s Look Again pledging to provide funding for local artists. Organised every five years and now in its ninth edition, British Art Show 9 will bring innovative modern art produced in the UK to four cities. The art show, which is curated by Irene Aristizábal and Hammad Nasar, is organised in collaboration with institutions across the cities of Aberdeen...

RGU to offer fully funded Creative Entrepreneurship course © Robert Gordon University A new fully-funded short cocurse for 20 creatives to teach them business skills is being run by Robert Gordon University. A north-east university is offering a fully-funded short course which will provide creatives with a raft of business support. Robert Gordon University (RGU) has launched the online course Creative Entrepreneurship which has 20 spaces, aimed at equipping them with the knowledge and skills t...

Hi folks! Since I have now completed my two countdown radio shows for the Top 50 albums of 2020—see the big takeover “radio” button above to hear one song from each!—here is my complete list of the 180 best albums, 100 best archive/retrospective/reissue releases, and 100 best stand-alone singles and EPs of this previous year—my best bets on another great year for music, old and new. And in one of the worst years of our lifetimes, here’s a small tip of my well-worn ballcap in profoun...

Travel restrictions mean motorcycle sales boom in Northland 23 Dec, 2020 05:00 PM 4 minutes to read John Shaw, of Shaw Motorcycles in Whangārei, has seen a 25 per cent spike in motorcycle sales since the Covid-19 lockdown. Photo / Michael Cunningham Northland motorcycle retailers are seeing record sales under international travel restrictions, prompting a safety warning ahead of the festive season. John Shaw, of Shaw Motorcycles in Whangārei, has seen a 25 per cent spike in ...

The Sixties, David Bailey tells us in his new autobiography, were over by about 1965. The calendars might assert otherwise. But it has a ring of truth, at least when it comes to the sharp-tailored, monochrome, mod version of the ’60s, the era of Swinging London. Bailey ought to know, after all. He modestly claims to have invented the decade. His journey to New York with the model Jean Shrimpton for a Vogue shoot in 1962 has taken on some of the legendary qualities of Lenin’s arrival at the...

Bloomberg News, Bloomberg News A pharmacy technician prepares a Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a University Hospital Network (UHN) vaccination clinic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. UHN is one of the two sites responsible for piloting the vaccination rollout across Ontario. , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- A Covid-19 test made by East Brisbane, Australia-based Ellume, won approval from U.S. regulators on Tuesday. The tes...

Dec 17 2020, 5:44 AM December 16 2020, 4:38 AM December 17 2020, 5:44 AM (Bloomberg) -- New cases in California shattered another record as a deepening crisis threatens a shortage of intensive-care beds and medical staff. The most-populous U.S. state is struggling to control its outbreak even as most residents are under stay-at-home orders. (Bloomberg) -- New cases in California shattered another record as a deepening crisis threatens a shortage of intensive-care beds and medical staff. The mos...

California Crisis Deepens; U.S. Allergic Reaction: Virus Update Bloomberg 12/16/2020 Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- New cases in California shattered another record as a deepening crisis threatens a shortage of intensive-care beds and medical staff. The most-populous U.S. state is struggling to control its outbreak even as most residents are under stay-at-home orders. The first hiccups in the distribution of a Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S. included a holdup in delivering 3,900 s...