Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is holding a plant sale at their nursery in Inverleith Avenue South (off Inverleith Place) this Sunday (13 May) from 2 – 4pm. Entry is £3, free to RBGE members.
Day: May 9, 2012
A Ragged Trousered Appreciation
A Timely Reminder
On Saturday 21 April at North Edinburgh Arts Centre the audience was treated to a brilliant performance by two magnificent actors playing all the characters in Robert Tressell’s classic story ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’.
The subject, of grinding exploitation of workers employed by a building and decorating firm, was played with emotion, seriousness and a good deal of humour. The confusion and self-interest of some of the characters has its modern counterparts, but so does the message of what must still be done.
The actors, Rodney Matthew and Neil Gore, will be giving performances of the play at the Edinburgh Fringe at Venue 2 this August. It deserves to – and should – play to packed houses.
A Delahoy
Weekend fire in West Pilton flat
Fire crews were called out to a fire in the kitchen of a flat in West Pilton Gardens, Edinburgh on Saturday evening.
Two fire engines and a height appliance attended the incident, caused by a cooker catching fire, after the call came in at 8.22pm. Two firefighters entered the ground floor flat in the three-storey block and extinguished the fire using a CO2 extinguisher and a high-pressure hose reel.
An ambulance attended and paramedics checked over a 20-year-old male, 19-year-old female and a 10-month-old baby, but none of the occupants required hospital treatment.
Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service