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Scott Graham is conducting research into how pupils taking part in the Polar Academy react to the training and extreme conditions that they end up in. He tells Alison exactly how he’s helping these pupils prepare for the experience of a life time.

We look at the appeal of board games after the opening of a new board game café in the Southside of Glasgow.

We go where science and art mix with a new exhibition in St Andrews which takes a close up look at biological cells.

With everyone wanting to do their bit for the planet, how can we have an eco-friendly Christmas when it’s a time of such indulgence and excess? We hear about a group in Aberdeen that are doing their bit and Vanessa Kanbi is on hand with ideas of how we can all help the planet this Christmas.

Have you heard of aquascaping? It’s an art form that combines gardening and fish tanks, and Alison chats to one man in Tayport who’s passionate about it.

Plus, Sleep in the Park, the largest mass sleep out in aid of homeless charities, took place last Saturday in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee. Last week Vuyelo Ndlovu promised to go along for us…but how did she get on?