Teapot Trust welcomes funding from Foundation Scotland
Teapot Trust, a mental health charity with its base at Eskmills in Musselburgh, has been awarded £5,000 of funding to help children and families...
Council elections 2022 – Edinburgh Greens publish their manifesto
Edinburgh Greens published their manifesto this weekend.
Some of their candidates appear to have gathered in Princes Street Gardens to launch the 44 page...
Council elections 2022 – Conservatives publish a manifesto for their 20...
A ‘spring clean’ of the city’s streets and scrapping most Spaces for People measures are among the plans unveiled by the Edinburgh Conservatives as they...
Council Leader criticised for delay in writing to the Russian Consul...
The City of Edinburgh Council leader Adam McVey has been criticised after it took three weeks to send a letter to the UK's Russian...
Council elections 2022 – Edinburgh Conservatives publish manifesto to “Clean Up...
Edinburgh Conservatives have published their 2022 manifesto in which they promise to clean up the city, both literally and metaphorically.
If they are...
Book Review: Elizabethan Secret Agent by Timothy Ashby
A person in a position of great authority is volatile, stingy, unreliable, and unwilling to take personal responsibility for anything unpopular.
Scotland has not forgiven...
Letter from Scotland
The world-wide rise in gas prices, and the horror of importing gas from Putin’s Russia, has re-ignited the debate in Scotland over our energy...
Angus Robertson visiting Canada and the US during Tartan Week
Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs, Angus Robertson, joined Ontario Government Heritage and Culture Minister, Lisa MacLeod, and Niagara Falls Mayor, Jim Diodati,...
Take tea with Sunflower volunteers this Sunday to raise funds for...
Meet the volunteers behind Sunflower Scotland at Starbucks Fountainpark, between 10am and 2pm on Sunday 10 April.
Have some tea, coffee and Ukrainian cakes and...
Planting Roots of Peace at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
On a drizzly Edinburgh morning, Californian Heidi Kuhn was all smiles as she planted a hickory tree at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh accompanied...
This is not a drill – filming on Calton Road at...
Filming of the new feature film Borderland will take place at the Calton Road entrance to Waverley Station on Sunday.
The reason that the...
Meadows to George Street – final designs now published for first...
The final designs for a small but important part of the revamping of Edinburgh city centre have now been published, but don't hold your...
Council elections 2022 – Richard Lucas – Colinton/Fairmilehead Ward
Name - Richard Lucas
Political Party - Scottish Family Party
Ward - Colinton/Fairmilehead
About you
I have lived in Colinton for over 25 years, teaching at Merchiston...
Scottish Government appoints committee chair to advise on future pandemics
Professor Andrew Morris has been appointed as Chair of the Scottish Government’s Standing Committee on Pandemic Preparedness (SCoPP).
Professor Morris is Professor of Medicine and...
York Place and Broughton Street to be closed – for one...
On Tuesday next week temporary traffic arrangements will come into effect at Picardy Place to allow for the reopening of the junction at Picardy...
Young professionals wanted
Business After Hours for young professionals continues on May 11 from 17.00 to 19.00 at Yotel, Edinburgh (pictured) hosted by Midlothian and East Lothian...
Dine – It’s all about local
Last month Dine restaurant on Cambridge Street hosted the Elsie Inglis campaign fundraising Gala Dinner.
As well as entertaining all the guests who bought...
Council elections 2022 – Jack Caldwell – Leith Walk ward
Name - Jack Caldwell
Political Party - Scottish Liberal Democrats
Ward - Leith Walk
What is your story?
I've lived in a council flat in...
Ukraine vigil being held at University of Edinburgh on Thursday
A vigil will be held in George Square on Thursday as an opportunity for members of the public to show solidarity with all those...
Liberal Democrats launch their Edinburgh manifesto – to stand up for...
There are 21 Liberal Democrat candidates in Edinburgh - in some places there are two standing in one ward.
Today the candidates congregated outside the...
Lord Provost praises quick thinking in response to call from Kyiv
In response to a call from twin city Kyiv, Edinburgh has sent more than 3,000 sandbags to help protect statues and monuments in the...
Edinburgh Tool Library opening at new base this weekend
The Edinburgh Tool Library, which lends out tools to those who know how to use them and teaches those who want to know, is...
13-year-old charged with robbery and attempted robbery in Trinity
A 13-year-old boy has been charged in connection with a robbery and attempted robbery which happened in Edinburgh on Thursday 31, March, 2022.
A...
SOS Cockburn Street – a local campaign
Anyone watching Twitter and this particularly local campaign will know how much work has gone into keeping the social media feed alive with photos...
Appeal for man still missing from Wester Hailes
Police Scotland has renewed the appeal for information to help trace Stuart Campbell, missing from Wester Hailes.
It is now two weeks since the 36-year-old...
Approval for giant sculptures at St James Quarter
The council has approved plans for a pair of giant head sculptures commemorating two prominent artists as the newest addition to St James Quarter.
The...
Council will not proceed with pilot scheme for zebra crossings
The introduction of low-cost zebra crossings on Edinburgh’s streets could take “several years”, it has emerged, after a bid to conduct a trial in...
Postal voting on the increase in Scotland
The number of people in Scotland who have registered to vote by post increased by 38% since December 2020, according to statistics published today...
Edinburgh pupils connect with scientists and academics in live careers events
Pupils at St George's School, Stewart's Melville College, The Edinburgh Academy and The Mary Erskine School joint in careers events to learn about careers...
Low Traffic Corstorphine – working on quiet streets and neighbourhoods
This is another article in our series highlighting a variety of campaign groups in Edinburgh. This time we introduce Low Traffic Corstorphine based in...
