- Edinburgh Spy Week
- KEYFRAMES – what did you think?
- New Town Community Cinema
- Live Well in Later Life event in Gorgie
- Gas mains work moves to Priestfield
Edinburgh Spy Week returns for its third year with an exciting programme of events exploring the secret worlds of spies and espionage in fiction and in fact, that will see events on the history of secret services, on women in spy fiction, and on writing spy lives, and a mini-season of films – ‘Paranoid State’ – at the Edinburgh Filmhouse.
We particularly fancy listening to Dame Stella Rimington who will be speaking to Professor Penny Fielding about women in spy fiction.
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We cannot claim to have found this little piece of news for ourselves, but we do think it bears repeating. It was The Broughton Spurtle who alerted us to this glaring omission in the survey on the This is Edinburgh website.
CEC survey fishes for compliments & offers not much space for criticism. Then omits tram option as poss travel mode. https://t.co/9atAbHms5P
— Broughton Spurtle (@theSpurtle) March 21, 2016
The survey aims to get your views on the latest exhibition to invade St Andrew Square called KEYFRAMES. Sadly one of the questions which asks how you got to the square fails to include the tram – which stops about 10 yards away. The Broughton Spurtle are at the forefront of the campaign to have the garden returned to the people, and of course have relished this blunder!
If you have been to see KEYFRAMES then you can access the survey here (or you can tell us what you think below).
New Town Community Cinema in Barony Street have a special Good Friday event at 2:00pm.
You are promised a Japanese fantasy film to entertain the children with a giant sprite!
There is also a film for adults later in the evening at 7:00pm.
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The City of Edinburgh Council’s Health and Social Care department and Gorgie Dalry Forum Project 5G have organised a Live Well in Later Life event which will take place tomorrow at St Martin’s Community Resource Centre at 232 Dalry Road.
This is the 6thLive Well in Later Life event that has taken place in the Edinburgh area since November 2012. The days aim to bring agencies from around the city together to give people over 50 a ‘one stop shop’ for advice on living happy, healthy, active lives.
The event will also include some music from Springwell Golden Voices.
Project 5G aims to bring generations together in the Gorgie Dalry area
There will be pupils from Tynecastle High School there to help throughout the day. They are working towards a personal development award (NAT 4 qualification)
There are a wide variety of organisations who can help with keeping your house safe and warm, give advice on keeping well, help you to get out and about more, or simply help you to find out more about what’s going on the local area and they will all be on hand on Wednesday.
The stalls will be in place all day, and there is also a programme of taster sessions happening downstairs including help with using your tablet or smartphone, arts and crafts, indoor curling and local history storytelling.
Get along and get involved!
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Scottish Gas Networks have been in touch to tell us about the next bit of road in the city that will be dug up. They will shortly begin work in Dalkeith Road as part of a £300,000 project to improve the gas network.
They are replacing old metal gas mains with new plastic (polyethylene) pipes which will last for at least 80 years.
Next Monday 28 March the work will progress from Kilmaurs Terrace into the southbound side of Dalkeith Road which will be closed to southbound traffic for about a week. Diversions by way of Priestfield Road and Prestonfield Avenue will be in place, and bus stops will be closed and diversions in place too.
Following that the work will move to Priestfield Road where it joins Dalkeith Road in the week beginning 4 April.
SGN Project Manager Stephen Dickson said: “We have planned this work for the school Easter holidays, when there is normally less traffic on the roads, to help minimise disruption.
“However we understand roadworks can be frustrating and I would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused. We will do everything we can to complete the final phases of this project as quickly as possible.”
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