Five things you need to know today

Cameron Rose highlights the world record attempt by the unicyclists that we told you about last month. The event takes place at the end of the month and the cyclists are now looking for some corporate sponsorship. The video used on the councillor’s website is of course our very own Samantha Taylor’s work!

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Paul Moorhouse, 20th Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, and curator of The Queen: Art and Image, discusses his approach to organising the exhibition. In particular, he focuses on the development of the ways in which the Queen has been represented and perceived during the sixty years of her reign. There is no booking required and it is a free event at the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre at the Scottish National Gallery today between 12:45 and 13:30.

The campaign to Save the Stockbridge Theatre goes on and there is a meeting next week so put it in your diary now. The campaigners will be at Stockbridge Library on Hamilton Place on Wednesday 13 July from 6.30pm.

If you have a Zoo membership then this Friday there is a members night this Friday when members will have the whole Zoo to themselves…….what will they get up to?

Want to try something completely different? You can learn how to grow your own salad in a window box at the John Hope Gateway, Royal Botanic Gardens between 13:00 and 15:00. You may not have a garden or allotment, but you can still grow delicious crops in containers. Come and find out how to grow fresh and nutritious salad leaves in a window box. Part of the Edible Gardening Project funded by the People’s Postcode Lottery.