Tag: Edinburgh local news

 A Private Bill to allow the new Portobello High School to be built in Portobello Park was introduced in the Scottish Parliament today.The City of Edinburgh Council is taking the comparatively rare step of...

Edinburgh Greens have chosen Alys Mumford to contest the Liberton-Gilmerton by-election on 20 June.Alys is 24 years old and is currently the director of Jubilee Scotland, a charity which campaigns on third world debt. She...

Residents at a block of flats have hit out at the council for allowing their communal bin store to be  full of rubbish. Residents have been complaining for the past six months about the...

 A group of Edinburgh University students are preparing for one of the nation’s most mouth-watering fundraising events – the MS Society’s Cake Break. This year the MS Society is hoping to raise £50,000 from Cake...

 The award winning bus company is recycling old phones for charity.Everybody has an old mobile phone lying around gathering dust at the back of a drawer or cupboard somewhere.Lothian Buses are asking their staff...

 Governance Risk and Best Value Committee - Domestic abuse seminar, Edinburgh - The Friends of Water of Leith Basin - House @42 - Today at the Scottish National Portrait GalleryThe council's Governance, Risk and...

Civil Service Strollers FC have confirmed they have entered into a Football Partnership with Salvesen Community FC. The agreement, which is for an initial two year period, allows a pathway for young players to...

 A city with an international reputation for welcoming visitors, Edinburgh attracts people from all over the world and many decide to stay and make it their home.  In 2010 over seven thousand did just...

The Edinburgh College of Art Fashion Show will showcase the latest designs from some of the UK’s brightest students studying fashion, performance costume, and textiles - and we have a sneak preview from the...

 ScottishPower Swap Shop reaches out to 5,000 schoolchildren to mark fifth anniversary of ScottishPower Swap Shop,Children across Scotland are set to take part in the country’s biggest book swap when thousands of kids exchange...

More children will be attending schools near their homes from this year.The number of requests for out-of-catchment primary school places in Edinburgh has fallen compared to last year, even though the number of children...

Tram Project Update - Priority Parking - Afternoon Tea with the Military Wives Choir - Wine tasting at The Scotsman Hotel  - Postcode ChallengeThe trams are not due to start running until the beginning of...

INVOLVING PEOPLE IN CARE SERVICES “ESSENTIAL”, WARNS CARE INSPECTORATEInvolving old and vulnerable people in key decisions about the care they receive is “essential”, the Care Inspectorate will warn today.The call comes in a joint...

Every football fan from the capital knows that Hibs last won the Scottish Cup in 1902. Hibs’ supporters are reminded of this statistic every year whenever a cup tie is played, and rival Hearts’...

If you are old enough to remember glass lemonade bottles, then you will recall that taking these back to the shop resulted in a few pennies being refunded. Now that we are a recycling...

Morningside Youth Pipe Band (MYPB) only started playing together in November last year, but we found them in great form at Boroughmuir High School last Friday, where there was a bake sale to raise...

Scottish academics will travel to Malawi to celebrate an important milestone with Malawian graduates who have influenced international health.Experts from the Institute of International Health and Development (IIHD), based at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh,...

A group of young people from Drylaw have been taking part in an Art project over the past two months, transforming a tunnel on the cycle path in Granton from a dull dark place...

A youth worker from the North of the city will paddle fifty-seven miles in less than twenty four hours as part of a fundraising campaign for a new building. Mark Foster who is the...

The City of Edinburgh Council decided last week to take a stance on council tenants who are in arrears of rent. Their stance is one of cooperation and avoidance rather than legal enforcement, where...

 NSPCC Scotland is challenging people across Edinburgh and the Lothians to test their nerve next month with a charity abseil from the iconic Forth Rail Bridge.The 165 ft abseil will take place on Sunday...

Technophonia by Oliver Searle shortlisted for Royal Philharmonic Society AwardThe City of Edinburgh Music School in conjunction with Drake Music Scotland has been shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for their performance at...

 Scottish Rugby Union and Glasgow Warriors scrum-half Chris Cusiter (right) and Mark Robertson (left, former Edinburgh Rugby winger) are photographed with the HSBC Rugby Sevens World Cup, which is currently touring Scotland.Chris is pictured...

Eleanor Cunningham of The Edinburgh Larder tells you what's good to eat at this time of year, and has a suggestion for you...Scotland has an abundance of delicious local produce and there are many...

A former taxi driver who murdered his victim in an Edinburgh park has been jailed.At the High Court in Glasgow today, Stephen Nolan was given a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years...

A unique but unsettling glimpse into what the lives of blind people were like in Victorian and Edwardian Edinburgh is to be made public.The Royal National Institute of Blind People (Edinburgh and Lothians) has formally transferred...

 It will not surprise you to know that the libraries are where it is all happening this evening to celebrate World Book Night. WBN is a celebration of books and reading when books are...

DATE CONFIRMED FOR LIBERTON AND GILMERTON BY-ELECTIONA by-election will be held in the Liberton and Gilmerton ward on Thursday 20 June 2013 following the death of Councillor Tom Buchanan.The counting of votes will be...

Hibs legend Pat Stanton officially unveiled almost 1000 personalised dark green granite stones placed at the entrance of the Easter Road East Stand before the SPL match against Aberdeen.The development had been designed to...

 Health Wellbeing and Housing Committee -  Oxgangs Library - Magic Festival is launched -  City centre consultation - Assembly Rooms shortlisted for awardsThe council's Health, Wellbeing and Housing Committee meets this morning and will hear...