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Virtual Organ – Edinburgh Recital
The Virtual Pipe Organ Inaugural Recital will take place on Saturday 29 October 2016 at 4pm, in support of YMCA Edinburgh.
The organist for the...
Lectures at The Usher Hall in 2017
The word lecture really does not quite encapsulate the calibre of the speakers who are coming to The Usher Hall in Spring 2017 in...
Farewell to the St James Centre
The St James Centre or St James Shopping as it was known latterly has now closed. It will be demolished soon and replaced over...
Play your part in shaping council services
The council is struggling with a falling budget and growing population. We have all heard this before, but the problems are real ones, and...
Edinburgh Libraries win at the COSLA Excellence Awards
Edinburgh Libraries’ VIP (Visually Impaired People) Service won in the ‘Tackling Inequality and Improving Health’ category at the COSLA Excellence Awards on Thursday.
The partnership project launched in 2013...
Gorgie City Farm pet project helps teenagers
Gorgie City Farm has a pet boarding facility which is being used to help teenagers with difficulties in their own lives.
Research has shown that...
Council will help Prince’s Trust find new premises in the city
At last week's Children and Families Committee the council agreed that the council will help set up a new employment and enterprise hub for...
Get along to the St James Centre today – last chance!
The doors will close tonight on the St James Centre which has been a focus for shoppers in the East end of the city...
Pre-school Jump and Dive classes at the Royal Commonwealth Pool
Coaching will begin on 26 October for pre-school children who need to build their confidence in the pool.
Edinburgh Leisure is launching their new class for children between...
The Edinburgh Reporter chats with Martin Scott Manager at G&V Royal Mile Hotel
Martin Scott is General Manager of G&V Royal Mile Hotel, a job he took over earlier this summer. Aged 34, Scott hails from Glasgow but has already...
FREE Training session for the Edinburgh Marathon
If you have already signed up for the Edinburgh Marathon Festival on 27/28 May 2017 then we hope you have already begun training!
But if...
At the Usher Hall 17 October 2016 – Astronauts Tim Peake and Tim Kopra
Edinburgh International Science Festival, in partnership with European Space Agency and UK Space Agency, presents Experiments in Space, an evening with astronauts Tim Peake and...
Sally Magnusson to deliver Donald Gorrie lecture
Broadcaster and writer Sally Magnusson will give the Donald Gorrie Lecture this Tuesday 18 October 2016 at St Andrew's and St George's West Church...
Carer Conversation Cafés
Anyone who cares for someone else in the capital is invited to join the conversation at weekly Carer Conversation Cafés hosted by local carer organisation VOCAL (Voice...
The dry cleaners with a Royal Warrant have closed their doors
Kleen Kleaners at 10 St Mary's Street appear to have gone to the wall.
When one of our readers was picking up his dry cleaning earlier...
Auld Reekie Roller Girls take on Granite City on 5 November
Remember, remember the Fifth of November!
The Auld Reekie Roller Girls (ARRG)are preparing to take on Aberdeen in what promises to be an explosive game of roller...
Kerry’s cake knocks them out!
Our fabulous friend and Edinburgh Foody blogger Kerry Teakle won a huge award in London last night in the category
Best reader’s recipe -...
The Edinburgh Reporter Podcast – Interview with Cllr Paul Godzik about Boroughmuir High School
A further delay to the opening date for the new Boroughmuir High School was announced yesterday. We spoke to the Education Convener this morning...
Scottish Land Fund award will enable community purchase of former council buildings in Eyemouth
The community in Eyemouth is about to bring the old Burgh Chambers and Town Hall into community ownership with a Scottish Land Fund award.
The...
Forth Bridge is Scotland’s greatest man-made wonder
Research carried out by VisitScotland has decided that the 126 year old Forth Bridge is Scotland's wonder in the Year of Innovation, Architecture and...
Castlebrae’s pizza oven wins Initiative Prize
Castlebrae Community High School has scooped a prestigious prize for their pizza oven designed and built from recycled materials.
Five S4 students from the school won...
Scotch Whisky Experience is Unique Venue of the Year
The Scottish Event Awards have lauded The Scotch Whisky Experience on The Royal Mile which has been named Unique Venue of the Year.
The five star whisky...
Brakes put on Boroughmuir till next summer
The new Boroughmuir High School which we visited recently will not be ready until August 2017 the council have announced today. The Chief Executive...
Write your will for ‘free’ during Free Wills Month
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) are making it possible for you to write your new will for 'free' during Free Wills Month this October.
This...
Edinburgh Zoo news – rare deer calf born at the weekend
Edinburgh Zoo has told us today about their newest addition. The Visayan spotted deer calf was born last weekend, the firs time this species...
Church name Edinburgh minister as next Moderator
Edinburgh minister The Rev Dr Derek Browning has been nominated as the next Moderator of the General Assembly. He will be sworn in next...
Go along and be thrilled by Botanic Lights 13 October to 6 November 2016
Tonight the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh begins Botanic Lights 2016. This is a series of nightly events over the course of the next month which...
Rugby – 1872 Cup, Edinburgh v Glasgow
With 74 shopping days – 75 if you include the hours before the match! - to go, tickets for the first leg of the...
Leith MP dismisses claims for Britannia revival
Deidre Brock MP yesterday dismissed calls by the Conservatives to bring the Royal Yacht Britannia back as a working ship as ‘daft’.
You can see...
Pentlands Book Festival 2016
Pentlands Book Festival takes place in Currie, Juniper Green and Colinton this autumn over a week from 21-27 November 2016.
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