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Community cuts agreed by Integrated Joint Board
Dozens of community groups have lost core funding after health chiefs agreed to axe requests totalling £1.9m a year.
Members of the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board (IJB)...
Edinburgh charity’s gifts for vulnerable adults stolen
Local charity LifeCare has spent 76 years making a difference to the lives of Edinburgh’s older people and those living with dementia.
Each year they...
Supporters of Pilton Community Health Project demonstrate opposition to closure outside City Chambers
Scotland’s oldest community health project is under threat of closure because of lack of funding.
The organisation was advised only last week that their funding...
Edinburgh open for new community radio
The UK Broadcasting regulator OFCOM has included Edinburgh in its latest list of places that can have a community radio station.
The Edinburgh station would...
New lighting on the Queensferry Crossing
Architectural lighting has now been installed on The Queensferry Crossing.
It includes uplighting for each of the main towers and strip lighting along the deck...
First Minister’s Christmas card 2018
The First Minister has chosen a photograph by Harry Benson CBE as her official 2018 Christmas card.
The image of the Gallery of Modern Art in...
Affordable homes a golden opportunity for buyers in Balerno
An upmarket homebuilder is giving certain buyers the chance to snap up properties at multi-award-winning developments for a fraction of the price - thanks to...
Looking for the best Christmas present? How about this…..?
MAKE A MEADOWS LODGE THE BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT AT THE MEADOWS, FORFAR
The Meadows in Forfar has released additional luxury turnkey lodges for sale, from...
At the National Galleries of Scotland – BP Portrait Award
The 2018 BP Portrait Award exhibition, which opens at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on 15 December, will feature 48 stand-out works including An...
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay will be all about the love……
This year’s Street Party hosted by Johnnie Walker is set to be a spectacular love-in. From the moment the doors open at 7.30pm, till...
MSP thanks Royal Mail staff during busy festive period
Lothian MSP Gordon Lindhurst paid an early morning visit to Royal Mail’s Edinburgh Western Delivery Office to say thanks to hard working staff in...
Review – One20 Wine Café
There are rare but beautiful moments in Edinburgh when I feel I might be in Glasgow. Like when someone talks to you at a...
Exhibition of Photographic Illusions opens today
Mackie’s of Scotland are sponsoring MagicFest’s Now You See it, Now You Don’t – a photography exhibition at the Scottish Storytelling Centre that is...
At the Lyceum: Wendy and Peter Pan****
Is Wendy & Peter Pan a fast-moving adventure story or a reflection on age, grief, gender-stereotyping, the meaning of family and of love? In...
Locality committees labelled a ‘nonsense’
The city council’s locality committees have been labelled “a nonsense” after it emerged they don’t even have the authority to put up new signposts.
A call...
Football – Share of the spoils as City stay top of SPFL 2
There was to be no change at the top of the Ladbrokes League 2 on Tuesday night as Edinburgh City and Peterhead shared the...
The 1950s shine for Leith tenants
Tenants from an Edinburgh retirement housing development have been taken back in time with a play showcasing Leith in the fifties.
Joined by pupils from...
Robert Philip has a new book out – with its own musical accompaniment
You will need a really big stocking to put this book in, but it is a good recommendation for the music lover in your...
Complete set of Bowmore 1964 included at Bonhams Whisky Sale this week
A complete set of Black Bowmore 1964 leads Bonhams Whisky sale this week.
Of particular note to locals is the bottle of 1890 Bowmore 10...
Council Leader says the time is right for Tourist Tax
Tourism bodies including UK Hospitality sent an open Letter to Adam McVey, Leader, City of Edinburgh Council opposing the council's plans to impose a...
EU Court of Justice rules that the UK may unilaterally stop Brexit
In an expedited decision published this morning the European Court of Justice has confirmed that any member state who has issued an Article 50...
Blues & Browns – just waiting for you in the city centre
Blues & Browns has opened its diary in Edinburgh. In a world of fast fashion and 'one size fits all' they say that they feel...
New partner at Thorntons appointed today
Legal firm Thorntons is expanding its senior team with the appointment of Andrew Kirkhope.
A specialist in residential conveyancing and estate agency, Mr Kirkhope has...
Panmure House reopened for the people
Panmure House, the iconic building in Edinburgh’s Canongate which once served as a home to world-renowned economist Adam Smith, has today been formally opened...
Save Leith Walk campaigners issue their own idea for Stead’s Place
The group working to save the two storey sandstone block at Stead's Place on Leith Walk have issued their own visual of what the...
Central Library petition to be considered by council
There has always been opposition to the development of the former India Buildings as a Virgin Hotel.
Now it will be discussed further during the...
Church services in Edinburgh during December
Just in case you would like to go to a carol service somewhere in Edinburgh and don't know exactly where to go here is...
Council to make U-turn on charges for sports facilities
Proposals to charge £35 an hour to use school sports halls have been axed after it was revealed that some clubs would fold if they...
Co-habiting couples urged to find a will to avoid future woes
Cohabiting couples need to make a Will to avoid sleepwalking into a legal mess that could leave one partner facing financial misery, a family...
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