Hundreds of drivers ignore bus lanes on Princes Street
The wee Kelpies
At the Traverse
Wednesday at The Filmhouse
Free broadband for business – for three weeks!
Hundreds of drivers have been spotted ignoring the bus lane restrictions on Princes Street, and the problem is now so bad that the council is going to install cameras to catch the culprits in the act.
But when we say hundreds – we mean per day!
The cameras will cost around £20,000, but are deemed crucial to traffic management on the city’s main shopping street.
Mini versions of world’s largest equine sculptures are in place at the heart of the University of Edinburgh.
The three metre-high maquettes featuring the rearing heads of two Clydesdale horses, will be in Old College Quadrangle and at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at Easter Bush.
The versions are an exact 1:10 replica of the 30 metre-high sculptures located at Falkirk’s Helix Park, which has attracted over 1 million visitors in its first year. The maquettes arrive at the University after travelling the world, having been on display in New York’s Bryant Park and at last year’s Ryder Cup in Gleneagles. A series of related public talks and events will be held at the University.
More details here.
At the Traverse this week Òran Mór are bringing A Play, A Pie and a Pint to Edinburgh. More details here.
Descent By Linda Duncan McLaughlin
Tue 20 – Sat 24 Oct, 1pm / Fri 23 Oct, 1pm & 7pm
Captioned Performance: Wed 21 Oct, 1pm
Presented in association with Luminate: Scotland’s creative ageing festival.
What makes you ‘you’? What makes you love someone? And is it possible to hold on to it all when everything you share begins to disappear? Or are you just clinging to the ghost of what used to be?
A Play, A Pie and A Pint TICKET (£12) offers:
A play, a pie and a pint of beer/125ml glass of house wine or a regular glass of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, lemonade, orange juice, filter coffee or tea
A vibrant mix of themes, characters and stories
Lunchtime and evening performances
Easily digestible 50-minute play packages
At the Filmhouse tonight you are invited to go back in time (or is that forward?) Tickets here.
Celebrate Back to the Future Day with us on 21 October 2015 – the exact date on which Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrive in the future during Back to the Future Part II.
CityFibre has responded to the sudden suspension of the government’s Super Connected Cities connection voucher scheme, by offering businesses free connection to its pure fibre networks in Edinburgh. The offer is open to over 55,000 businesses within reach of CityFibre’s networks in its project cities and ends on November 5th.
Since the Government scheme began in 2014, over 40,000 businesses have used the voucher scheme, but many potential applicants will have been caught off guard when the offer was suspended last week. As a supporter of the programme and its initiative to upgrade the nation’s business connectivity, CityFibre will waive connection fees costing up to £2500 usually paid by new customers.
There is strong support for the direct benefits that state-of-the-art fibre networks bring to businesses; studies show internet-related economic activity in the UK will grow to 12.4% by next year – up from 8.3% in 2012. Despite this, Ofcom figures show nearly a fifth are unhappy at not being able to access the broadband speeds they were led to expect.
Commenting on the offer, James Thomas, director of operations at CityFibre said: “We were great supporters of the government’s connection voucher scheme as a catalyst to encourage businesses to upgrade to ultra-fast services and more modern pure fibre networks.
“We are delighted to be able to help those businesses that have missed out on the voucher, giving them a final chance to get connected to transformational services on future-proof pure fibre infrastructure in the cities we serve.”
All interested businesses are able to register their interest in the offer by visiting www.cityfibre.com/connectfree.
All registered businesses are subject to survey and if eligible, details will be passed to CityFibre’s Internet Service Provider partners to follow-up.
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CityFibre’s Offer is subject to survey! If the distance to the Business is not within a very short distance from CityFibre’s Council Networks, which is likely to be the case, they will rip you off! Digging the streets is very expensive and Contractors aren’t going to do it for free. CityFibre is losing money and has no Operating Profit. It can’t afford to give away free connections.
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