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Oxfam Scotland launch new equality campaign
Oxfam Scotland campaigners launched their "Even It Up" campaign earlier in the week to urge the Scottish Parliament to take steps to reduce poverty.
According to...
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Holocaust Educational Trust funding
BINGO!
Bagpipes
Central Library
Craigmillar
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. It was on 27 January 1945 that the largest Nazi death camp was liberated,...
Scottish Parliamentary Election 2016 – register to vote now
Today marks 100 days left before the Scottish Parliamentary Election on 5 May 2016.
Edinburgh residents will join voters across the country to elect MSPs to represent them...
Craigmillar regeneration plans on display this week
Craigmillar residents are invited to find out more about the EDI Group’s plans to improve the town centre.
Designs for the Town Square, a community play...
Lorries overturned by high winds on A1
Photographer Jon Savage was in the right place today and took these photos of HGVs which came to grief on the A1 in the high winds.
These two...
Edinburgh schoolboy blogging for UNICEF
Jack Liddall is destined for great things according to his head teacher, Bryan Paterson. You only have to be in his company for about...
Sheraton is all set for the Six Nations
The Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa has a whole new menu, and part of it has been created just in time for the beginning of...
Nicolson Street remains closed
Nicolson Street remains closed this afternoon after an incident just after 9.30 a.m. involving a piece of masonry which fell on a bus.
We are...
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£eith Decides
Edinburgh Gateway Station
At The Queen's Hall
Public Realm art in Grassmarket
Sports reports
Voting will open for the 2016 £eith Decides at the community event which...
South Queensferry to get a new high school
The Scottish Government has announced £230 million of funding for 19 new schools and one of these will be South Queensferry Community High School...
Look out your old bagpipes
Do you have a set of old bagpipes mouldering in your attic? Then the Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust want to hear from you.
There...
Robert Burns in Edinburgh
We celebrate our national Bard, Robert Burns each year across the world, but we set out to find out about Burns in Edinburgh today. He...
87 Things To Do in Edinburgh This Week!
87? Yes it's a busy time in the capital this week- lots and lots of music, films, poetry, books and art, plus 'an extraordinary...
Rugby – Stewarts-Melville v Dundee, BT National League, Div. 1
“A Damn Close Run Thing”* at Inverleith as Dundee hold on for a narrow win
The BT National League resumed hostilities at a breezy Inverleith...
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Writers Museum reopens
Global Game Jam
Deidre Brock MP
Council Tax Reform
Plan ahead for half term
The Writers Museum is situated on Lady Stair's Close halfway up The...
Increased council charges – what does it mean for you?
The Council has set out its plans as to how it will spend just under £1billion of revenue next year. But it has deemed it necessary...
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Community Council meeting
Run for Barnardo's Scotland
First Fringe tickets go on sale
Friends of Starbank Park
Edinburgh's Hogmanay survey
Portobello Community Council meets on Monday evening – 25 January...
Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival 2016
We are well used to festivals in the city but this one takes you to the mountains whether for beauty or adventure. The whole...
COMPETITION – Win tickets for Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
The Edinburgh Reporter is delighted to announce a competition run in partnership with Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2016.
The films are coming to...
Writers’ Museum reopens this weekend
The Writers' Museum will be open again this weekend following refurbishment.
The museum on Lady Stair's Close has rare works and artefacts which highlight three...
Loretto sweep the boards at Glenshee
The Loretto Junior School ski team triumphed at the recent IAPS (The Independent Association of Preparatory Schools) Scottish Preparatory Schools Ski Championship in Glenshee,...
Support the new nature trail at Starbank Park
A very local crowdfunding effort has begun to raise funds for a children's nature trail, and it is already halfway to its target.
The Friends...
Edinburgh Councillor blogs – Maureen Child
Councillor Maureen Child represents the Portobello/Craigmillar Ward in the city. Here is her weekly round-up of news from the area.
Dear All
I warmly welcome the...
Scottish Poetry Library are looking for a new Director
Could this be the opportunity you are looking for? You would have a lovely new office in the building which was refurbished only last...
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Edinburgh Council sets 2016/17 budget
Competition - Culinary Masterclass
Lord Darling of Roulanish makes his maiden speech
Fire Service CPR sessions
Very dear haggis!
The council held a lengthy meeting...
Greens call upon the council to be bolder in protecting services
The city council needs to be bolder in protecting public services say the capital’s Green councillors.
In the aftermath of the city council’s budget meeting...
‘Biggest change will be for council staff’ says Finance Convener
The council set its budget today for the next financial year, against a background of cross-party criticism of the local government finance system.
We spoke...
Labour councillor livens up budget debate
Councillor Gordon Munro is always entertaining when he gets the chance to speak at the City Chambers, but the untimely death of David Bowie...
Light show coming to St Andrew Square next month
An invasion of stop-motion stick-figures will create a spectacle of light when a major installation makes its first appearance in Scotland next month.
KEYFRAMES, delivered...
Increased concern for missing Cupar man Jason Cowie
Police in Fife are appealing for information to help trace a man reported missing from the Cupar area yesterday.
Jason Cowie had not been seen...
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