Tag: paralympics
Letter from Scotland
Oh dear, trouble on the railways. We’ve just been told – by the newspapers of course – that Network Rail has managed to install overhead wires at the wrong height on parts of the...
Monday in Edinburgh – what’s on today
Mrs Mash at The Skylark: songs, stories and joining in fun from Mrs Mash aka Marie Louise Cochrane, the Storytelling Cook, for the under-5s and their parents and carers - this week with patterns for...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 24TH NOVEMBER 2014
Mrs Mash at The Skylark: songs, stories and joining in fun from Mrs Mash aka Marie Louise Cochrane, the Storytelling Cook, for the under-5s and their parents and carers - this week...
MP praises Whizz-kidz campaign
Mark Lazarowicz MP backs Whizz-Kidz campaign to capitalise on success of Paralympics
Local MP Mark Lazarowicz is strongly backing an initiative launched by the charity Whizz-Kidz to find out exactly what young disabled people’s hopes...
Derek Howie – our very own paralympian
We gave you a flavour of the kind of person Derek Howie is when we wrote about him before the May elections earlier this year.
Derek had a long career as a social worker here...
Paralympic Games will be celebrated in Edinburgh with Flame Festival
More details have been announced today about the Flame Festival being held in Scotland's Capital to mark the start of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
With 100 days to go until the Games, The City...
Paralympic Flame Festival to be held in Edinburgh
In the build-up to the London 2012 Paralympic Games, a Paralympic Flame Festival will be held in Edinburgh on 26 August 2012, it was announced today.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic...