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Scotsman
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Iconic Scottish city pub to be recreated as musical writer vows to 'restore story of One Day to Edinburgh'
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Iconic Edinburgh pub The Pear Tree is to be recreated on stage in the musical of One Day to be premiered in the capital. Writer David Greig, who is adapting the book for the theatre, said the well-known venue would be the basis for the pub scene where characters Emma and Dexter first meet as students at the University of Edinburgh. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad David Greig, former artistic director of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, is adapting novel One Day into a musical. The world premiere of the new musical version of the bestselling novel by David Nicholls, which was last year adapted as a series for Netflix, is to open next year at the Royal Lyceum Theatre. Speaking at the Lyceum's programme launch for next season, Mr Greig said he had also taken inspiration from tourist attraction the Camera Obscura in staging the play, which will see the 140-year-old auditorium transformed into a theatre in the round, with audience members on both sides of a newly constructed stage. Mr Greig, who recently left his role as artistic director of the Lyceum to be replaced by James Brining, said one challenge in adapting One Day was that it doesn't have a clear 'world', like many other stage shows. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall star as Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew as Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley in the new Netflix series One Day, which is based on author David Nicholls' best-selling novel. The novel is being turned into a stage musical. Picture: Netflix He said: 'If you go to see Guys and Dolls, it's 47th Street, New York in the 1940s. So you get a designer and you design that world. But what is the 'world' of two young people who meet in Edinburgh in 1988 - then one is going around the world and the other is in Salford and then they're in London? They're just in 'Britain' in the '90s and early 2000s, so that creates quite a problem. 'If you've got a scene change and it's just a year ahead and she's working in a restaurant, it's so pedantic. What we want to do is create something where the audience are in the pub where they're graduating. Secretly, it's the Pear Tree, that's what's in my head. 'There will be this feeling that you [the audience] are in the room. And what we want to do is have Emma and Dexter in a circle of light, just following them.' He added: 'I feel we are restoring it to being an Edinburgh story. I don't know many other popular novels that mention Rankeillor Street.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Mr Greig said the atmosphere of the staging had been inspired by the Camera Obscura on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, a Victorian invention that projects a real time image of the city onto a viewing table using light and lenses. He said: 'In the Camera Obscura, you peer down and you look at people in real life walking down the High Street and you can spy on them. 'I wanted us to feel like the only two people who didn't know they were in a play are Emma and Dexter. Everybody else is playing different parts and they're moving things around and it's very theatrical. But in the middle of it, there is this couple and their story.' The Lyceum has been turned into a theatre in the round before, during the Covid pandemic, for the staging of Life Is a Dream, when audience members were required to be socially distanced. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Mr Greig said: 'We were trying to do social distancing, we weren't able to get a lot of audience in, but I loved the look of it. I thought it was amazing, so that stayed in my mind.'
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Edgemont Announces Corporate Update
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 13, 2025) - Edgemont Gold Corp. (CSE: EDGM) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has appointed Mr. Jim Greig as a director of the Company effective June 10, 2025. Concurrent with Mr. Greig's appointment, Mr. Guido Cloetens and Mr. John Williamson have resigned as directors of the Company. The Company thanks Messrs. Cloetens and Williamson for their invaluable contributions. Mr. Greig, CEO at Lannister Mining (NYSE listing pending) brings +25 years of experience in advancing and developing mineral exploration projects into production scenarios. He was a founding member, President and Director at Theis Gold (formerly Benchmark Metals), advancing a 5-million-ounce gold-silver project in British Columbia, Canada. In addition, he was a key member of the mine development team that advanced the 5-million-ounce Esaase Gold Project in West Africa. Jim brings comprehensive experience in mineral exploration, development, and production. About Edgemont Edgemont holds a 100% interest in the Dungate copper/gold porphyry project located just 6 km south of Houston, BC, in a region with a history of successful mining projects including the Equity Silver Mine and Imperial Metals' Huckleberry Mine. The Dungate project is comprised of five mineral tenures covering 1,582.2 hectares that can be explored year-round by all-season roads. For more information, please visit our website at For further information, please contact:Stuart RogersChief Executive OfficerTel: (778) Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Market Regulator (as the term is defined in the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Not for distribution to United States newswire services or fordissemination in the United States. To view the source version of this press release, please visit Sign in to access your portfolio
Otago Daily Times
06-06-2025
- Business
- Otago Daily Times
Butter proving to be a popular fundraiser
While the skyrocketing price of butter may be leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of some, one non-profit saw a golden opportunity. Southland Paws Rescue founder Amy Greig said the organisation made $1 profit on each of the 5560 blocks of butter it sold in its latest fundraiser. Ms Greig said it was the first time it had sold butter and it had been the most successful fundraiser to date. The orders for the 250g Westland Gold blocks started rolling in thick and fast after a post about it was placed on their social media page. "Word of mouth got around and people started ordering." Jingo and cheese rolls had been used to raise revenue in the past, but the butter was less work and easier to sell. One buyer ordered $1000 of butter while ironically, 500 blocks were ordered by staff from a local dairy processing factory. Ms Greig said several orders had been received from people who made cakes for others. Prices were initially marginally lower than supermarkets, but even from the time they first started receiving orders at the start of May, Westgold community fundraising prices had risen from $4 to $5.15. "I'd rather put that dollar that we got back into a local organisation for what we do . . . than letting that supermarket profit that dollar." Orders had to be prepaid and picked up once the delivery had been made because of the logistical challenge of storing pallet loads of butter. Funds raised paid for the care of the multitudes of animals the charity looked after throughout the year. While they had a good relationship with their vet, their bill still needed to be paid. Some animal healthcare expenses ran more than $1000. Leithfield School in Canterbury sold 10,000 blocks of the golden dairy bars in a recent fundraiser, RNZ said. Invercargill's Kaye's Bakery had been importing Australian butter by 10-tonne shipments to make its biscuits. Kaye's Bakery owner Luella Penniall said three years ago the company was paying $11 per kg — now it was up to $15. Stats New Zealand data shows prices have increased more than 65% in the 12 months ending at April 2025. Stats NZ also said dairy prices were the main driver for food price increases — increasing the food price index by 3.7%. The average cost for 500g of butter was $7.42, 12 months ago. Butter hit a record high of $7992 a tonne early in May before falling to $7821 in mid-May. By Toni McDonald
Press and Journal
27-05-2025
- Business
- Press and Journal
New Dons stadium 'might never happen' as leading councillor says beach vision was 'only an idea'
A leading council planning boss says further work to boost Aberdeen Beach – which include a seaside Dons stadium – is unlikely to ever make it off the drawing board. Lib Dem councillor Martin Greig recently cast fresh doubts over the second phase of the multi-million-pound beach revamp, insisting the plans 'were all visionary'. The whole beachfront scheme – including the potential new Aberdeen FC stadium – could cost £441 million. It comes after the Dons scooped a phenomenal win for the city at the Scottish Cup final on Saturday, proudly raising the trophy for the first time in 35 years. Works on the first part of the beach project are already under way, with a huge new playpark starting to take shape and upgrades at Broadhill planned to be done by July. An events field, an amphitheatre, new canopies and an eye-catching gateway building will also be created as part of the £50m transformation. Meanwhile, the seaside stadium and a new pier overlooking the North Sea were supposed to be erected as part of the second phase of the project. But council chiefs last year decided to put the proposals on hold until they find extra cash to pay for the pricey upgrades. And now Mr Greig seems confident these have been taken off the table entirely. The council has several regeneration projects on the go – including the new market on The Green, the first phase of the beach revamp and Union Street central upgrades. The latter, as well as works to turn Queen Street into an urban park, have been delayed due to a series of issues. And with improvements at Castlegate also imminent, Mr Greig was recently grilled over the council's prospects of getting all of these over the line on time and within budget. He was confident about the progress with the Flint market, however, seemed rather puzzled when the second phase of the beach revamp was brought up. Following some further clarification on the proposed further stages of the project, he quickly snapped back: 'Oh, that's all visionary though.' He added: 'There were no firm decisions made about those [plans]. 'It was appropriate to be visionary in imagining how we can improve the beachfront, and encouraging to see inventive solutions to make it more interesting and more varied. 'Clearly, the council has not proceeded with everything that was on the list.' Asked to clarify whether that means the revamp of the promenade and the new stadium might never happen, Mr Greig grinned with an affirmative 'Yeah…yeah…' He added: 'There has been a series of visionary proposals for the beachfront over the last few decades – piers, buildings… 'So, there is a history of planning – and not action-ing.' It comes as the stadium project remains at a stalemate over funding. The tussle centres around who should pay for further studies into the scheme. Aberdeen FC initially agreed to look into replacing Pittodrie with a new ground at the beach when the previous Tory-led administration approached the club about ditching its plans to move to Kingsford. Studies suggested that building a seaside stadium instead would boost the local economy by £1 billion over 50 years. And chairman Dave Cormack argued there would be no 'meaningful benefit' attached to the major beachfront upgrades without the stadium as part of the project. But the tide appeared to change when the SNP and Lib Dems took over the council. And although finance chiefs have insisted the plans are still a possibility, Mr Greig's latest remarks will further dash the hopes of fans who want to see the new beach stadium become a reality. Thousands of supporters lined the city streets this weekend to celebrate their football club's historic win at the Scottish Cup finals. And Mr Cormack thinks this shows how many back the Dons and the new stadium idea. Speaking to Original 106 during the celebrations, Mr Cormack said 'they [the club] will be patient with that'. He added: 'Aberdeen needs capital investment – particularly around the beach – and a community stadium would serve the city well.' Council co-leader Christian Allard neither confirmed nor denied whether the second phase of the beach project will ever come to fruition. He stressed that the esplanade will undergo some work, but this will focus on dealing with erosion issues. And he suggested that whether the plans will ever go any further than that would depend on how much money and time they have. 'It's not only the financial situation, it's also the capacity of what we can do in one term,' Mr Allard added. 'It's good to be ambitious but you've got to make sure that what you start, you can finish. 'The biggest issue with the beach is the erosion and that needs to be done. 'That [second phase of the revamp] was the plan before the economic changes world-wide and UK-wide. Now we will have to review those and see what needs to be done.' You can rad more on what exactly the second phase of the beach revamp was planned to involve here.
The Courier
21-05-2025
- The Courier
Perth child groomer 'Dangerous Dave' gets nine-year extended sentence
A notorious Perth paedophile who referred to himself as Dangerous Dave has been handed a nine year extended sentence for grooming a schoolboy on the other side of the world. Serial sex offender David Greig sent explicit selfies to his 13-year-old victim using the Telegram social media app. Police uncovered the chat log on the 46-year-old's computer devices at his Perth home, along with horrific images of babies being raped by adults. Greig appeared at Perth Sheriff Court for sentencing, having previously admitted this, his third sexual offence. He was told jail was the only option. Protection from public harm Solicitor David Sinclair, defending, said his client had been recommended for the Moving Forward: Making Changes rehabilitation programme for sex offenders. He highlighted Greig's previous Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SOPO) had expired in April 2024, some time before the indecent images and chat came to light. 'His initial offences were of contact nature,' said Mr Sinclair. 'Now we are in the region of semi-contact, in that he was communicating indecently with an apparently underage person.' Mr Sinclair said: 'Mr Greig was in a road accident when he was a young boy and this matter appears to have gone undiagnosed throughout his childhood.' David Greig at an earlier court hearing He said his client struggled to form healthy relationships and 'find his role in society.' 'No real alternative' Sheriff William Wood told Greig: 'Unfortunately for you, there is no getting away from your previous convictions. 'This is the third time you've come to court in respect of sexual offences, and as a result there is no real alternative to a custodial sentence.' The sheriff added: 'You have to understand that simply possessing indecent photos of children contributes to the continued industry and contributes to the ongoing abuse of children. 'Clearly that is a reprehensible thing that the public must be protect from. 'And it is of further concern that you had a discussion with a person online who disclosed they were a child, yet you continued with this highly sexualised conversation.' Greig admitted grooming a 13-year-old boy in November last year. He further pled guilty to downloading indecent images of children between July 14 and November 6 2024. Sheriff Wood said: 'I am concerned that the public needs to be adequately protected against serious harm once you are released. 'For that reason, I am going to pass on you an extended sentence.' Greig was jailed for four years and will be on licence for five more after he is out of prison. He will be subject to the sex offenders register and the sexual harm prevention order indefinitely. Laptop discovery Fiscal depute Emma Farmer earlier told the court police investigated after receiving a tip-off indecent images had been downloaded to Greig's laptop and phone. 'The Telegram Messenger app had been installed and the search indicated indecent communications had taken place, and images and videos were found on both devices,' she said. The material included footage of children as young as six months old being sexually assaulted. In the Telegram chat, Greig's victim – 'who resided an eight-hour time difference away' – told him he was 13. 'The conversation was sexually explicit throughout,' said Ms Farmer. Greig sent the boy photos and videos of himself exposing his penis and carrying out a solo sex act. The court previously heard how the offender, who set up a Skype account under the name Dangerous Dave, had traded hours of sickening child abuse footage on the internet. For that, he was jailed for three years. For more local court content visit our page or join us on Facebook.
