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Scottish company behind technology for mass Covid-19 screening
A Scottish company has developed a track and trace system which they claim is fast and accurate.
The system uses facial recognition and thermal...
Book review – Finding Your Scottish Ancestors
Genealogy is becoming increasingly popular, and there are several on-line websites that offer a service to trace ancestors.
At one time, doing your own research...
Moredun residents ask for more people to support their campaign to protect their park
Moredun residents continue their protest to try to stop plans to build houses on their community park.
They are asking people to camp out...
Helping us to help you – a petition to sign here
Save Local Independent News: write to your MP today
Local independent news providers like The Edinburgh Reporter are, according to recent research published by the...
Uncertainty adds to Hearts anxiety
Hearts traumatic experience of season 2019/20 has followed them to season 2020/21 but with one significantly different change.
Last season Hearts were, for the...
Council to consider reopening some public toilets
At next week's council meeting the councillors will discuss the reopening of some of the public toilets that the city owns.
This was first...
Book Review: Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Vampire Menace
We first met Ms Shona McMonagle in Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar, Edinburgh author Olga Wojtas’s debut novel.
Shona, now a librarian in Morningside, that...
Network changes on the buses next week
SPECIAL COVID-19 BUS SERVICES IMPROVED AS RESTRICTIONS RELAXED
Lothian Buses has announced an update to its critical services network from Sunday 12 July 2020 to...
Edinburgh may merge buses and trams in one company
Although there was a full council meeting earlier in the week one of the most dramatic changes in the city was not discussed there....
New monkey is hanging around at the zoo
A wee one-month old L’Hoest’s monkey baby has been photographed on camera for the first time at Edinburgh Zoo.
Staff there say the youngster will be named...
Silent vigil held for James Harrison
The cycling community in Edinburgh came out in force today to remember a cyclist killed on the city's roads last week.
James Harrison was...
Surgeons hotel invests £1 million to fight fire with fog
One Edinburgh hotel is crowning its refurbishment with a state of the art “fogging” system which fights fires while using a tenth of the...
Fundraising a blazing success for Edinburgh School Uniform Bank
A charity set up to ensure that Edinburgh school pupils can all go back to school wearing a new school uniform has run a...
Edinburgh West MP to meet with Scotland minister over airport jobs
Christine Jardine MP, will have the opportunity to discuss what steps the Government is taking to support Edinburgh Airport, following her question in the...
EdFilmFest At Home – Q&A with Ron Howard tomorrow
Q&A with film director Ron Howard Wednesday, 1 July at 8.15pm
This free event will be hosted on Edinburgh International Film Festival’s YouTube channel
The legendary film...
Book Review – The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange
St Kilda is a remote archipelago in the North Atlantic. For centuries its people lived a very basic life, farming Soay sheep and existing...
Edinburgh news – live from the capital
This is the week when Scotland begins to get back to business - from queues outside shops, and everyone on public transport wearing masks,...
Council meeting 30 June 2020 – the unions have their say
The first virtual council meeting takes place on Tuesday. It will take place online on the Microsoft Teams platform which will allow you to...
Stockbridge plans on hold
Proposed plans to ban parking in Stockbridge have been halted by the council.
In what looks like a significant U-turn on previous plans, the...
Police charge councillor with alleged sexual offences
Cllr Lewis Ritchie, 36, the Independent councillor for Leith Walk, has been charged by police with five offences which are alleged to have happened...
Councillor may regain finance position despite expenses questions
Labour councillor Lezley Marion Cameron could regain her position as Vice-Convener of Finance when The City of Edinburgh Council meets at its first...
Small businesses to be supported by council spending
The Council is a major employer and procurer of goods and services necessary for them to deliver over 700 services to the people of...
Cyclist who died in Gilmerton was NHS nurse
NHS Lothian today paid tribute to much loved and well respected colleague, James Harrison, 36, who died following a collision on Thursday morning between...
Abbotsford – gardens open from 1 July
The gardens at Abbotsford will reopen on Wednesday in accordance with government advice.
Opening hours are 10am to 4pm every day except Sundays.
There...
Hobbycraft reopened today
Hobbycraft has re-opened its store at Fort Kinnaird following government advice on the exit from lockdown.
The store is putting the safety and wellbeing of...
Filmhouse launches a fundraiser
The Filmhouse may be ready to open again in September, but until then, they have begun an online fundraiser to support the cinema.
Everyone...
Leith Theatre to remain closed until spring next year
Leith Theatre has announced today that the building which has become the heart of culture in Leith, will remain closed until spring.
The theatre...
Edinburgh Zoo reopened this morning
The Zoo reopened this morning, so now you can go and climb the big hill and see all the animals in the flesh rather...
Open Eye Gallery – open by appointment from 1 July
The Open Eye Gallery on Abercromby Place will reopen this week.
There are two exhibitions running from 1 - 25 July 2020 which can...
Offering alternative solutions for relationship problems
Family law experts in Edinburgh, Gibson Kerr, are suggesting five alternative solutions to couples wrestling with relationship disputes and unable to go to court...
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