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This year a new Wider Achievement Opportunity – The John Muir Award – was introduced in Drummond Community High School. Student Bilal Shahid tells Spurtle all about it.
John Muir was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of what we now know as conservation. The award itself was launched by the John Muir Trust in 1997 to promote Muir’s message of preserving and exploring the wilderness.
Independent Leith Walk traders were left stunned yesterday – almost speechless – at news that yet another supermarket may open soon in Broughton.
The Cooperative Group has applied for planning permission to convert the former Hopetoun Bar Diner at 8 McDonald Road (Ref. 11/00435/FUL) into a Class 1 retail unit ('convenience store').
It may feel as if this winter will never end, but there's light at the end of the tunnel.
A wander around the Botanic Gardens yesterday afternoon, in fitful shafts of sunshine, revealed this uplifting sight.
Where balmy Inverleith goes, Baltic Broughton will evenutually follow. Chin up, everyone!
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Contact the Elderly is a national charity running a national 'Campaign to End Loneliness' this week. Since 1965 it has believed reaching out to those experiencing social isolation in older age – and their helpers – can have major benefits.
The group's plan of action is simple, effective and rather touchingly British. It arranges monthly tea parties for small groups of older people and other volunteers within their community. By this means, people of all ages are brought together, making friendships and networks of support.
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Brief biographical details provided by his family say that he '... attended school and lived at a psychiatric hospital. He was good at individual sporting pursuits such as walking, swimming, trampolining and riding.
Union Gallery's new exhibition features the work of two Edinburgh-based artists who approach 'Being Human' from quite different angles.
Audrey Grant began as a painter in the early 1990s with a Foundation Course at the Leith School of Art. Since then – particularly since 2006 when she won a Visual Arts Creative Development Grant from the Scottish Arts Council – her work has met with increasing attention and acclaim. She is, suspects Union's Bob Dawkins, on the cusp of major recognition from national institutions.
Local author Margaret Irvine will be at McDonald Road Library on 26 February to discuss her autobiographical Tenterfield, My Happy Childhood in Care.
Statistics produced by the Scottish Government suggest two unlikely groups as Edinburgh's safest drivers.
Between 2005 and 2009 the safest way of travelling upon Edinburgh's roads was in a vehicle other than a bus, car, bike, motorcycle or goods vehicle (for example, a sit-on lawnmower or Challenger tank), on a Monday between midnight and 6:00am, with a female at the controls aged between 5 and 15 or 85 and over. No-one fitting all these criteria was involved in a serious or fatal accident.
Edinburgh North and Leith MP Mark Lazarowicz is to host a free, public meeting to discuss Fairtrade on 5 March.
He is inviting experts, practitioners and constituency residents to discuss the future of Fairtrade: whether it should just continue to expand and improve, or whether it needs to change course in some way. How can more businesses and individuals be encouraged to join in?
Broughton's proliferating stickers are at their thickest where Broughton Street meets York Place.
Just about every vertical pole and lamppost is festooned with these unsigned enigmas.
Spurtle would welcome further photographic evidence and explanations.