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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...
New SNP depute leader announced
Earlier today at the SNP conference in Glasgow Angus Robertson MP was announced as the new Depute Leader of the party.
The SNP Leader at Westminster...
BB Lewis gets his big award at BBC Broadcasting House
Lewis Shillinglaw, who is a member of the 1st Loanhead Company of The Boys Brigade in Scotland, was presented with his 2016 Make a...
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...
Local gift boutique wins Shop of the Month
Local independent gift boutique, Pippin, is announced as ‘October Shop of the Month’ for leading British childrenswear brand, Frugi.
Pippin, who specialise in gifts from...
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...
Botanic Lights 2016 opens tomorrow with a new theme- Exploration
Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden's award-winning Botanic Lights opens to the public tomorrow night (Thursday 13th) promising their most ambitious and interactive shows to date.
The...
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.
Here are some Reporter Recommendations :
''The Moira...
Thousands of free ice rink tickets available this morning at 10 am
Edinburgh's Christmas have teamed up with Standard Life to give away 10,000 free tickets for primary school pupils to go ice skating in St...
Hamleys head for Scotland
The London toy store that is a mecca for children from all over the world is coming to Scotland with the announcement of a...
Scottish Colourists on sale on Wednesday at Bonhams
Bonhams will sell some examples of the Scottish Colourists this week at their auction room in Queen Street.
Works include:
Pink Roses in a Chinese Vase by...
Africa in Motion Scotland African Film Festival 2016
'The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it' (George Kimble)
What does African film mean to you? Does it bring to...
November at The Queen’s Hall
The Queen's Hall in South Clerk Street is one of our smaller venues, but it packs a punch in the big names it attracts! November...
Local business focus: Eve’s Apple Shack
The small, quirky businesses in and around Edinburgh are one of the many things that make this city such a fun and vibrant place...
Collector – a unique exhibition of things people collect
Collector is a unique exhibiton which celebrates the joy of things and explores the curious and touching relationships people have with the objects they...
Edinburgh Airport welcomes report on climate change
A report published today by the Climate Change Committee proves that the Scottish Government's 50 per cent cut to Air Passenger Duty can be met...
Recruitment company opening office in Edinburgh
primestaff the recruitment consultancy who have been based in Glasgow until now are opening an office in Edinburgh and expansion to Dundee is on...
What’s on at WHALE Community Cinema
A family-friendly half-term screening of Bugsy Malone on Thursday 20th October, 6pm-8pm at the WHALE Arts Centre.
Tickets are £3 and can be purchased from...
One week on and police revisit scene of attack in Southside
Last Sunday at around 3.00am a 19 year old woman was indecently assaulted while walking home along Salisbury Place. Edinburgh police have revisited the...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Councillor Maureen Child
Councillor Maureen Child represents Portobello/Craigmillar. She writes:
The Jack Kane Community Centre are hosting a workshop on reducing food waste this Monday, 10 October from 11am to 1pm. Each...
Colony tales
The brilliant Tales of One City blog run by the city libraries staff has alerted us to something quite special in Capital Collections.
Mary Archibald...
Letter from Scotland
Harvest is always a telling time. It tells us what we’ve sown and how we, and the weather, have cared for it. This week...
Serial abuser jailed for over six years
Fraser MacDonald (45) was handed a six year and four months sentence for abusing three female partners over 15 years yesterday at the High...
Six arrested in North Edinburgh on theft and road traffic offences
Six men aged between 16 and 47 have been arrested and charged in connection with number of theft and road traffic offences in the...
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