City fires over the weekend – Petitions Committee – Pandas – Sports reporter – Edinburgh entrepreneurs

There were three fires in the city over the weekend according to STV Edinburgh, and this morning there is a further blaze involving Edinburgh crews at the fire station in North Berwick.

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The council have introduced a petitions committee and this will have its first meeting at the City Chambers this afternoon at 2:00pm. You can read more about it here.

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Our pandas have been in Edinburgh for a year now and the zoo has issued their report card about their progress thus far. Our article here confirms that the pandas have proved to be a huge draw for visitors to Corstorphine Road.

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For those football fans who would like to relive yesterday’s ties in the Scottish Cup as it happened yesterday, then look no further than the BBC website. If however you are a Hearts fan you might like to forget clicking through….. We continue to look for someone to report on sports matches for us. Is that you? Do you regularly attend matches involving any sport or Edinburgh team? Then get in touch! theedinburghreporter@gmail.com

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The Herald reports that Entrepreneurial Spark will open its doors in Edinburgh in February 2013 to start up companies.

 

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