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By John Campbell Published 2 hours ago comments Comments Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Northern Ireland's energy regulator has warned that households will face further gas prices rises in the coming weeks. The region's two suppliers, SSE and Firmus, last increased their prices at the start of July. The price of gas on global markets has surged in the last two months. Russia has reduced its supplies of gas to Europe, increasing competition for gas produced in other countries. Next week the UK is expected to take delivery of a shipment of gas from Australia. The regulator, John French, warned that households will face further gas price rises of up to 30% in the coming weeks. "Just as a rule of thumb, we have seen prices more than double, 60% of the final bill is wholesale prices," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster. … [Read more...] about Cost of Living: NI households to face further gas price rises

Published 2 July 2010 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing A major exhibition of the art works of the Glasgow Girls is set to open in south west Scotland. The event runs from Saturday until 30 August at Kirkcudbright Town Hall. The Glasgow Girls name describes a group of artists and designers with links to the city who operated in the late 19th and early 20th Century. The Dumfries and Galloway event is being staged to complement the Glasgow Boys exhibition running at the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery. Among the artists represented are Annie French, Margaret Gilmour, Norah Neilson Gray, Jessie M King, Frances and Margaret Macdonald and Jessie Newbery. Many of the works on show have never been seen in public before. Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden, a patron of the group trying to establish a major art gallery in Kirkcudbright, said the time was right to stage the … [Read more...] about Kirkcudbright celebrates Glasgow Girls art

By Angie Brown Published 1 day ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing When plans for a huge Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Edinburgh had to be shelved, monks based in what was once a family home in the city decided to transform it instead. A renovation project at The Dhammapadipa Temple in Slateford saw a double garage converted into a prayer room complete with an 80 stone (500kg) gold-plated Buddha from Thailand. Now the three resident Theravada Buddhist monks are urging people to visit the temple to see the transformation. Members of the Thai community that settled in Scotland first established The Dhammapadipa Temple in 2005. Thai billionaire and former Leicester City chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha had been behind a plan to relocate the temple to a bigger site in an A-listed property in another area of the city. However, after his tragic death in … [Read more...] about We built a Buddhist temple in an Edinburgh family home