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New chair for NHS Lothian
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing has announced the appointment of the new Chair to Lothian NHS Board - Mr Brian Houston. Mr Houston, a qualified accountant, brings to the board experience from both...
New procedure for complaints handling at care firm
Care Provider Launches New Complaints Procedure
Scotland's leading provider of housing, care and community services for older people has introduced a new complaints procedure. Designed to be more easily understandable and more accessible to the public,...
Edinburgh MSP supports Age Scotland’s Still Waiting campaign
Local MSP backs campaign against older isolation at Age Scotland Nicolson Street shop
Alison Johnstone, Lothian Green MSP, visited Age Scotland’s shop on Edinburgh’s Nicolson Street at lunchtime today to give her backing to the...
Film Festival brings back the Student Critics Jury
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is pleased to confirm the return of the Student Critics Jury. Now in its second year, the initiative supports the future of film criticism and this year will bring...
New artistic director appointed for Edinburgh International Festival
Following the announcement last year that the current director, Jonathan Mills, would retire from his position after the 2013 Festival, the search was underway to find his replacement.
Today the Festival Council announced the appointment...
Five things you need to know today
Please can we have a Bike Hire Scheme in Edinburgh? - Sounds of Edinburgh - Panda pregnant? - Talk this evening at the Royal Society of Edinburgh - World Book Night
News that Glasgow is...
The Edinburgh Reporters’ Weekly Sports Round-up
For the second week running, rugby has been knocked off the top spot in the Weekly Roundup, but we couldn’t ignore the retirement of possibly the greatest ever Edinburgh sportsman, Sir Chris Hoy MBE.
Elsewhere,...
Affordable Art at Drill Hall’s Arts Market
The Out of the Blue Drill Hall’s quarterly Arts Market took place over the weekend. The Dalmeny Street venue's Arts Market hosted over 50 artists who were on hand to sell their work to...
Five things you need to know today
Beekeeping with a purpose - Helping the National Trust for Scotland - At the Portrait Gallery today - Stockbridge Market - Council get award for office development
Today's Scotland on Sunday reports that Edinburgh restaurant owner,...
Five things you need to know today
Pandas - Taoist Tai Chi Centre - Fireworks Display - Suspicious death - Tonight at the Queen's Hall
The Edinburgh Reporter went out to see what the pandas were up to this morning. Yang Guang was...
Taoist Tai Chi Centre opens with a splash of colour
There was an impressive opening ceremony at the new Tai Chi centre on Marionville Road yesterday. Formerly used as a car garage, the premises are now refurbished and cleaned with a lot of elbow...
Greg Rusedski will play in Edinburgh’s Champions of Tennis
Now even more big names are confirmed for the largest tennis tournament to be played in Edinburgh for a long time. Brodies LLP have confirmed the sponsorship of the event which will have stars...
Romantic art launches a celebration of Verdi
To celebrate the bicentenary of the great Italian Opera composer, Guiseppe Verdi, Scotland's oldest company Edinburgh Grand Opera will be performing the love story La Traviata (The Fallen Woman). The production has been made...
VIDEO – The Edinburgh Reporter talks to new author Andrew Symon
We met with Andrew Symon recently whose first book comes out tomorrow, Saturday 20 April 2013. Symon already has the other two books in the Shian Quest Trilogy written however, so clear is the...
5 Things You Need To Know This Record Store Day
Avalanche - Voxbox - Elvis Shakespeare - Underground Solushn - Vinyl Villains
Saturday 20 April is the sixth annual Record Store Day, a celebration of the UK’s independent record stores. All over the country, artists,...
Bamboozled by food packaging? Edinburgh Community Food has the answer
Front of Pack Labelling
Feeling bamboozled by food packaging? (You are not alone!)
Sometimes it feels like going to the supermarket and picking out foods is some sort of intellectual obstacle course. You practically need a...
New Exhibition at Gallery TEN
Gallery TEN
AN EDINBURGH VIEW
26th April – 26th May 2013
The new exhibition at Gallery TEN will present artists who all use Edinburgh and its environs as their source of inspiration. They include etchings from John...
Local charity launches eco-art contest
Environmental charity Central Scotland Forest Trust (CSFT) is urging schools and nurseries in West Lothian to sign up to an Eco-Art competition aimed at encouraging creativity and increasing awareness of the environment in today’s...
Here are your Five tips to Get ready for Spring!
by Gillian Dalgliesh of Lemuria Life Coaching
5 Tips to Get Someone Focused, Positive & Happy for Spring
With Spring in the air, it’s time to shake off the oppressiveness of the dark, dour winter and...
Five things you need to know today
City centre plans - Man charged - Panda news - Chris Hoy - Record Store Day
There is a drop in event today and tomorrow about the public consultation which has now started on proposals aimed at...
COUNTDOWN TO THE LAUNCH OF THE JOHN MUIR TRAIL
Sunday 21st April 2013 marks a year from the launch of the John Muir Trail – and a huge amount of work has already been completed.
Fittingly the new long distance route, which passes through...
Charity Bike Ride for Hibs Legend Dan McMichael
Lifelong Hibs fan Hugh Cockburn will take part in a charity bike ride from London to Edinburgh next month to raise funds for the St Patrick’s Branch of the Hibs’ Supporters Club’s campaign to...
SCOREScotland has a runner in the London Marathon this weekend
An Edinburgh grassroots organisation, SCOREscotland - Strengthening Communities for Race Equality Scotland - will have representation at the London Marathon 2013. The charity is delighted that Peter Brading, a trainee lawyer at Tods Murray LLP,...
Holyrood committee to look at community transport
Getting out and about in the local community
How easy is it to get out and about in Edinburgh if you are elderly and / or disabled and find it difficult to access public transport?...
Queensferry Lifeboat tow motor boat to Port Edgar
Queensferry RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew were called out in the early hours of Thursday 18 April to assist a 33ft motor vessel which had suffered a mechanical breakdown and was drifting to the west...
VIDEO – Hoy comes home to Edinburgh to bow out of competitive sport
Sir Chris Hoy came to Edinburgh today to announce his retirement from competitive cycling. He called a press conference at Murrayfield Stadium where he may be spending more of his time in months to...
Sir Chris Hoy announces his retirement
Sir Chris Hoy's announcement today that he was retiring from professional cycling was not really news to anyone at today's press conference, which was a light-hearted affair, despite the fact that it is an...
Edinburgh Contemporary Crafts raise money for new workshop and gallery
Edinburgh Contemporary Crafts has raised £8,000 towards the £20,000 needed to refurbish Scotland’s first multi-disciplinary craft workshop, gallery and shop.
The total raised so far is a combination of public donations, business sponsorship and support...
Giant Chess Arrives in the Meadows
The appearance of a Giant Chess set on the Meadows in Edinburgh this summer should enable children to enjoy the ancient game in the fresh air, while also promoting essential life skills, according to...
Edinburgh employment lawyer to give evident to Holyrood on women in the legal profession...
Ahead of giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Equal Opportunities Committee as part of its Women and Work Inquiry, Joyce Cullen, Convener of the Law Society of Scotland's Employment Law Committee has today commented...
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