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Gathering at Portobello to mark Dog Theft Awareness Day
This year is the third Dog Theft Awareness Day on 14 March 2019, and to mark it dog lovers gathered on Portobello Beach last...
The 10th Portobello Book Festival is here!
The 10th Portobello Book Festival opened last night, with a packed out (and packed in) evening of entertainment in Portobello Library.
Introducing a programme of...
The 10th Portobello Book Festival is coming!
Ten years ago a group of Portobello residents decided to start a book festival.
Ambitious? Maybe.
They decided they wanted everything at that festival to be...
Apply now for a You Decide! Community Grant
You have until 28 September to apply for a community grant from a pot of £22,637 available in Portobello/Craigmillar for local projects.
Apply for a...
What’s on – go for a Tide Walk with William
William Thomson a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and author of The Book of Tides is leading a Tide Walk in Edinburgh on 3...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Councillor Maureen Child
Councillor Maureen Child is the Labour councillor for Portobello/Craigmillar. Here she scours her inbox for news about her ward :
As promised at our last...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Cllr Maureen Child
Labour Councillor Maureen Child represents Portobello/Craigmillar. Here she gives us a look into her email inbox with all the happenings in and around the...
Cllr Maureen Child – Five things to do in Portobello this week
As usual Councillor Maureen Child keeps us up to date with news from her Ward of Portobello/Craigmillar.
From her email inbox she tells us about...
Baby seal rescued from Portobello Beach
A baby seal was discovered washed up on Portobello beach this morning by locals.
Jo Tennant who came across the seal took to social media to warn...
New minister at St Martin’s Church Portobello
Rev Bill Wishart, 51, who is a member of the West Lothian Magic Circle, has been ordained as a Church of Scotland minister and...
Portobello Book Festival 2017: A Community Triumph
These days there are book festivals everywhere you look, from the dizzy heights of Hay-on-Wye to the cultured calm of Cheltenham. Last weekend, however,...
Lecture – William Speirs Bruce the forgotten Polar Explorer
A FREE lecture will be held in Portobello next week and the subject is former Portobello resident William Speirs Bruce, a scientist and polar...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Councillor Maureen Child
Councillor Maureen Child is the Labour councillor in Portobello/Craigmillar. Here she rounds up her inbox for us.
Dear All
Our community buy-out Bellfield's Crowdfunder closed last...
Action Porty now own Bellfield Church
A community group in Edinburgh has become the first organisation in an urban area to benefit from community right to buy powers.
Action Porty has...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Councillor Maureen Child
Edinburgh councillor Maureen Child represents the Portobello/Craigmillar Ward and here she writes for us her regular update on all the news in her part...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Councillor Maureen Child
Councillor Maureen Child represents the Portobello/Craigmillar ward in the city. Here she blogs for us with all sorts of information from her inbox
Dear All
Our...
Trolley dash for local Food bank at Aldi
Lisa Milligan from Portobello had a five minute dash around ALDI and brought back £638.99 worth of produce.
She then collected the same amount in...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Councillor Maureen Child
Councillor Maureen Child is one of the councillors for Portobello/Craigmillar ward and is standing for election next Thursday 4 May 2017.
She writes :
The next working...
Team Scotland Mark 1 Year to Gold Coast
Team Scotland celebrate 1 Year to Commonwealth Games with Volleyball Challenge
Today (Tuesday 4 April) marks one year to go until the next Commonwealth Games...
Costa Edinburgh proves property magnet
Surging demand to live beside the sea has propelled one area of Edinburgh into a property hotspot.
The market in Portobello and Joppa has surged with...
Portobello’s historic cinema hosting premiere event in November
Film premieres to be held in Portobello’s historic cinema building
One of Portobello’s oldest cinemas is to sell tickets again for the first time in...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Councillor Maureen Child
Councillor Maureen Child is the councillor for Portobello/Craigmillar. She writes about all the news she has gathered from her Ward.
Dear All
It’s just 10 days...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Councillor Maureen Child
Councillor Maureen Child is the Labour councillor for Portobello/Craigmillar ward. She writes:
Dear All
Portobello Open Door's (POD’s) Village Show is on this Sunday 4 September from 2-5pm...
Save the Portobello setts – we love them say locals
Some people in Portobello are very annoyed with the council who they say appear to have done a U-Turn on Brighton Place and have decided...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Councillor Maureen Child
by Councillor Maureen Child, Portobello/Craigmillar Ward
It’s been a bit of a long-running saga, but the railway bridge at Brighton Place/Southfield Place is to be inspected starting...
New sculpture installed on Portobello Beach for Art Walk Porty
A new sculpture installed today in the sea just off Portobello is sure to attract some attention. The idea of the steel Tidal Octopus...
Edinburgh Councillor blogs – Maureen Child
Councillor Maureen Child has given us her latest round up of news and what's on in Portobello.
Portobello Community Council want to hear from anyone...
Edinburgh Councillor blogs – Maureen Child
Councillor Maureen Child who represents Craigentinny and Portobello gives us her weekly rundown of events that are taking place in and around Portobello in the next week.
The Portobello...
News from Councillor Maureen Child
Councillor Maureen Child represents Portobello/Craigmillar and she has written this column for us with news from the East of Edinburgh.
This is our Portobello & Craigmillar...
Run away to Portobello and join the circus
If a new social enterprise's crowdfunding campaign is successful there will soon be a circus academy in Portobello. Edinburgh's Centre for Circus Arts wants to be...
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