For the beauty DIYer, we live in boom times. Between masks and eye strips, deep-cleaning products and YouTube videos on face massage, you can do a pretty good approximation of a facial in the privacy of your own home. So is going for a facial really worth the money and the fuss? I have a…

Longniddry Primary pupils are urging their local community to ditch balloon releases in favour of the more eco-friendly bubbles. Longniddry Primary School is a Silver Award Rights Respecting School. A Rights Respecting School not only ensures children’s rights are realised but also encourages young minds to become active and involved in school life and the wider…

North Berwick businesses cut waste, save money and make the grass grow greener! Every day seems to bring more shocking images of packaging in the environment harming wildlife. Many of us now ask what can I do to stop litter reaching the sea? Reduce, reuse and recycle is a familiar refrain but what can we…

This summer, Scott Wallace opens his new financial planning office in North Berwick – the town he was born and bred in. Here, he gives some tips for carrying out your financial MOT. We all lead busy lives, yet we all want to do and achieve the things that are important to us. This often…

The newest of Edinburgh’s well-being spaces, Calm on Canning Street, opened in April, by yoga practitioner Katy Lomas. More than just a ‘functional’ yoga studio, Calm on Canning Street offers a place where people can relax and connect after yoga. The timetable includes; Hot Yoga, Hatha Flow, Vinyasa Flow, Yin, Mum and Baby and Pregnancy…

Kim Williams went along to discover the specialists’ secrets of detox, healthy eating, beauty and inner calm at East Lothian’s first health and well-being festival at Archerfield Walled Garden   As a nation, we have well and truly embraced the concept of ‘wellness’. We have wellness hotels, wellness retreats – and now wellness festivals. When…

Mind, Body & Soul Columnist, Bernie Petrie tells how spending time in nature is the best medicine… One thing I discovered when I began living by the sea, is that I always felt better after time out in nature. It was living here that encouraged me to take up running and sea swimming, and both…

Spring is a time for shedding layers, spring cleaning and tossing some unhealthy winter habits you may have fallen into, such as not exercising due to Arctic temperatures. Spring is finally here and as the days get warmer and longer, more people are starting to tie the laces on their running shoes. Some of us…