The City Car Club
If you are looking for other ways to be environmentally friendly then in Edinburgh you are inundated with choice. It is possible to walk...
Edinburgh company short-listed for Observer ethical awards
Edinburgh renewable energy company Aquamarine Power Limited has been short-listed for the 2010 Observer Ethical Awards, organised by The Observer and Ecover.
The awards seek...
Marchmont & Sciennes Gardening Awards
If you live in the Marchmont area then you can win a gardening award for your green-fingered efforts.
The Community Council is reintroducing the prizes...
THE GENERAL ELECTION 2010
Here is a list of the candidates for each of the main parties in all constituencies in Edinburgh, with a note of which candidate...
COMMUNITY COUNCILS
These bodies made up of volunteers from all walks of life seek to influence any decisions made in relation to their particular geographical area.
They...
HYPERLOCAL AND THE FUTURE OF NEWS
But in a week when The Times and The Sunday Times are about to go behind the paywall (i.e make surfers pay ...
Animal Parades…
There are now elephants all over the city. The purpose is to raise money for charity.
OK time for another photo of an elephant.....just...
Flat fire in Barnton
It is thought that the fire was started by an electric blanket in the property. A female in her seventies escaped the...
Home Reports
Home reports were introduced by The Scottish Government after a very short pilot study and in the background of considerable opposition among property...
Sacred Heart Primary School off to bag a Munro!
There will be children, parents, carers and parishioners among the climbers. A piper will herald their departure from Penicuik Leisure Centre at 8...
School Term Dates in Edinburgh
Summer term
Friday 2 April 2010 - Good Friday
Monday 5 April 2010 - Easter Monday
Monday 19 April 2010 - Spring Holiday
Tuesday 20 April 2010 -...
Gaelic School in Edinburgh
So cue the Edinburgh all-Gaelic school. It is set to get a share of some £100,000 of government funding to provide funds for early...
HOT TICKETS FOR THE FESTIVAL
Edinburgh International Festival tickets have been on sale since late March.
Festival fans can book their seats for this year’s performances online at www.eif.co.uk, on...
Worst website? Sestrans
Sestran....... Perhaps we would also award them the prize for worst name too...
The acronym stands for South East of Scotland Transport Partnership....
SNH Report on Effect of Beavers on freshwater fish
The partnership project between the Scottish Wildlife Trust and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland which is already conducting a five-year trial introduction of...
Young carers struggle to cope with bullying
Bullied, stressed and anxious - Young carers struggle to cope at school
The survey of 700 6-18 year olds who care for...
Dr Walter Scott donates £1m to Museum fund
The £46.4 million Royal Museum Project will transform the National Museum of Scotland site in Chambers Street, Edinburgh into a 21st century...
Edinburgh Zoo
Edinburgh Zoo is owned by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and is situated in 82 acres of land on the side of a...
Billy Elliot Festival Theatre 4th & 5th June 2010
Celebrating five years in the West End, last December the producers of Billy Elliot The Musical launched a new initiative, Billy Youth Theatre, allowing...
Transition Edinburgh South
On 26th May there is a free workshop funded through the Neighbourhood Partnership Grants to discuss Climate Change and Peak Oil and the effect...
Cycling websites
We may not have found them all........so if you know of a site not listed here then please get in touch! You can email...
Growing spaces summit
Ways of increasing the amount of land available for allotments in Scotland have been discussed at the first Growing Spaces summit.
Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham...
Free WiFi for all please?
We are often out and about and have a real need for wifi wherever we go. It allows us to research articles, answer emails...
City bikes please?
In other European cities there are bikes available for use by citydwellers and visitors alike.
In Paris they have the Velib and in Dublin they...
Edinburgh Launches Energy Campaign
An advertising campaign to encourage Edinburgh residents to take up energy efficiency measures has been launched.
The City of Edinburgh Council is promoting a series...
The City Car Club
Edinburgh’s City Car Club is going from strength to strength with the launch of five new cars in the city.
This brings the total number...
Allotment gardening
Organic food is supposed to be best, for many reasons, including the fact that as an allotment gardener you are doing something to keep...
Bike to work
There is a tax saving scheme called Bike to Work.
If you don't already know about it then you should make it your job...
Rob Edwards : OBJECTIONS TO THE NEW GAS-FIRED POWER STATION AT...
Scottish Power want to build a gas-fired power station at Cockenzie, to the east of Edinburgh, which does not meet the demands of carbon...
Rob Edwards – loopholes in emissions targets
A Rob Edwards article in The Herald.
Rob Edwards, an Edinburgh journalist writes in The Herald about the loopholes in emissions targets and...
