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Stay home, switch and save with Utility Saving Expert

Staying home can save you money. You won't be spending your cash on your commute, on eating out or going to the pub whilst in lockdown, but that's not all. There are other ways you can be savvy with your spending and find ways to save.




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Coronavirus: Scottish businesses which ignore social distancing face police action

NICOLA Sturgeon said she does not expect police to be “routinely patrolling office blocks” as sweeping new enforcement powers come into force to include workplaces flouting social distancing rules.




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Coronavirus: Scots told to give up cigarettes and reduce alcohol from lockdown diet

SCOTS have been urged to give up smoking and cut down their alcohol consumption in a bid to reduce “complications linked to conroavirus”.




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Contactless payment limit to increase to £45 - what you need to know

THE limit for in-store card transactions by contactless-enabled cards is to increase soon.




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Ron MacKenna: How to eat out at home when all around you are losing their heads

THAT potato paratha then, being freshly made as I stand by idly at the counter, spring rain pouring from those raised shutters above and streaming onto open decking right behind. It would be miserable waiting for it out here were it not for the following.




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Joanna Blythman: One day we will be flooding back to you with open arms

I’ve been longing to eat Korean food ever since seeing Bong Joon-Ho’s phenomenal Oscar-winning film, Parasite, his interrogation of class and wealth on the plate. The wealthy mother tells her housekeeper to prepare jjapaguri, essentially an everyday dish, commonly made with two sorts of instant noodles. What makes this one exclusive and upper class is its topping of steak, from indigenous, highly prized Hanwoo cattle, which is way more expensive than Waygu beef would be here. Only the Korean




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Home delivery restaurant review by Ron Mackenna: Dandelion Cafe, Newlands Park, Glasgow

Dandelion Cafe




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Baker’s Delight, Glasgow. Ron Mackenna's home deliveries guide – 'Brilliant food. Travels well'

Baker’s Delight




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Joanna Blythman: The many exciting food initiatives that have emerged through the Coronavirus crisis

The ingenuity of Scotland’s independent food sector, and its determination to keep feeding us in these testing circumstances, is remarkable. Restaurants and cafés have gone down the takeaway route, small artisan suppliers who lost overnight all their catering customers have rapidly reconfigured their business around home delivery. Farmers who previously struggled to attract supermarket shoppers have never been so busy. Farmer’s markets have adapted to sell delivered or collected vegetable b




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800 Degrees, Clarkston, and Baffo, Argyle Street, Glasgow. Ron Mackenna's home delivery reviews

MY mother was known for her pizza but they were never round, not when we were growing up anyway. She would pull them from the ancient coal-fired cast iron range in the living room on long blackened oblong trays, the dough she had spent the day making puffed and undulating but always thin and super chewy.




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Lockdown home delivery review: Ron Mackenna's verdict on Glasgow's Calabash African Restaurant

Calabash African Restaurant




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Mary Contini's Orecchiette with Italian sausauges and greens

This typical dish from Puglia, the region in the south east of Italy where you see the beautiful white trulli houses in the holiday brochures, is one of our customers’ favourite dishes from the menu in our Valvona & Crolla Caffè Bar in Edinburgh.




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Coronavirus in Scotland: Giovanna Eusebi shares memories of cooking with her grandmother in lockdown recipe series

LEARNING from the hands of her grandmother in Italy, it was perhaps always going to be Giovanna Eusebi's destiny that she would go on to create culinary masterpieces of her own one day.




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Recipe: Mary Contini's citrus fruit marmalade

During lockdown I’m less busy than normal so I have started making marmalade. It’s a lot of fun. Choose small oranges, lemons, grapefruit, limes…whatever you find. The rule of thumb is to use the same quantity of fruit to granulated sugar.




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TV: Grime artist Big Zuu prepares made-to-order dishes for UK comedians

Big Zuu is headed back out on tour - but not as we know it.




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Wine with Gerard Richardson

Some things just instinctively go together, brandy and a good cigar, vintage port and blue cheese, then there's Chardonnay and oak barrels!




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Chef Gary Townsend's honey and oat soda bread

Soda bread is a quick and simple treat to make. I think most of you will have all of these ingredients in your cupboards right now. Soda bread is traditionally made with bicarbonate soda instead of yeast. Here I have added honey and oats for a slight flavour difference.




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Glasgow to host Homebuyer Show Scotland

Next month will bring the launch of the Homebuyer Show Scotland, an exciting new event for homebuyers looking to make their next move – and the event is set to make its debut in Glasgow. From frustrated first time buyers to struggling second steppers, and families looking for room to grow, Homebuyer Show Scotland is the first of its kind in Scotland and is designed to help any buyer find their next home, arming them with all information they need to make their next move.




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Embracing kingdom impact

Throughout the history of the movement, OM has encouraged the formation of many new organisations.




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An amazing God-given tool

An amazing God-given tool to mobilise and inspire people to make a difference: Global Village.




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'What are these weird women doing here?'

Anna and Sarah knock boldly on brothel doors in Central Europe, requesting permission to speak to the ladies inside.




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Freedom for captives

At the heart of missions lies a passion for justice. In every community in which OM is involved, working for justice for the oppressed and vulnerable is part of ministry.




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Director's Update - Nov 2017

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong, International Director




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When caring for the needy means us

"In order to fulfil our mandate, there are several needs we must invest in," says Stephan Bauer.




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Broadcasting the gospel to Afghans

Pamir Productions, formed in 1991, passionately uses all forms of media to spread the gospel to Afghans worldwide.




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Director's Update - Dec 2017

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong, International Director




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Loving in word and deed

OM first looked to other organisations to provide practical aid but now couples relief and development with its core vision.




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Letting God lead us forward

OM is known for action, not reflection; for pioneering, not reminiscing. Still, we are wise to celebrate milestones and learn from our past, whatever will serve us well for today and tomorrow.




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Director's Update - Feb 2018

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong, International Director




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Director's Update - Mar 2018

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong, International Director




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Director's Update - Apr 2018

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong, International Director




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Embracing our place in the kingdom of God

"Everyone in the kingdom of God is essential to the mission that He has called us to," I'Ching says. "Unfortunately, while we may profess this, often we don’t practise it."




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Director's Update - May 2018

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong, International Director




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Director's Update - June 2018

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong, International Director.




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The missionary posture of needing

"Do we sometimes feel uneasy that our business-as-mission and vocation models are so dependent on the very people that we are trying to reach? Does this make us feel powerless and needy?" asks Seang Pin.




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Director's Update - July 2018

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong, International Director




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Director's Update - Sept 2018

OM Update from Lawrence Tong, International Director




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Director's Update - Oct 2018

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong, International Director




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Director's Update - Nov 2018

OM Director's Update by Lawrence Tong, International DIrector




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Director's Update - Dec 2018

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong




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Short-term teams among the least reached

According to Stephan Bauer, short-term mission teams are "less a problem to be solved, but more a tension to be managed, and the aim should be for STTs to have a credible impact on the ministry and be effective in mobilising long-term workers."




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Director's Update - Jan 2019

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong, International director




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The Shepherd’s heart for the Nivkh

Inspired by the Good Shepherd who leaves the flock to look for the one, workers publish the Truth in Nivkh dialects though the people group is small.




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Director's Update - Feb 2019

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong, International Director




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Director's Update - Mar 2019

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong




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Vibrancy comes from the Word of God

OM Ministry Leader, Lenna Lidstone, discusses how to use Discovery Bible Studies to see vibrant communities of Jesus Followers among the least reached.




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Director's Update - Apr 2019

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong, International Director




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Entering a reindeer herder’s world

In Arctic Russia, reindeer are the Nenets' life. Living among these people, ES longs for the Nenets to know Jesus, the true source of life.




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Aliens do exist

Ali Geake, Internal Communications Director, discusses the change living in another culture has had on her life and outlook.




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Director's Update - May 2019

OM Director's Update from Lawrence Tong