Month: March 2013

Local football sides in weekend action

This weekend sees four local football sides in action.

Muirhouse based Civil Service Strollers are playing host to borders side Selkirk FC in the King Cup, Selkirk find themselves near the bottom of the First Division and Civil Service are occupying fourth spot in the Premier League. Civil will be hoping to bounce back from their dire weekend last week where they were beaten 7-3 by Midlothian club Whitehill Welfare.

Leith manager Derek Riddell with the Alex Jack Cup. (Picture: Thomas Brown)
Leith manager Derek Riddell with the Alex Jack Cup. (Picture: Thomas Brown)

Spartans travel to Peffermill to play Edinburgh University in the King Cup also, Spartans were also beaten last week by Stirling University and they will be hoping to return to winning ways tomorrow.

Match of the day has to be the Craigroyston v Leith Athletic fixture, Leith and Craigroyston are contenders for promotion from the first division and played each other at the tail end of last year in the Alex Jack Cup Final which leith ran out one nil winners.

All the games kick off at 2.30pm and you can find more information at the East of Scotland FA website

Art project planned for Granton tunnel

A project initiated by the Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust will see the tunnel at Granton (behind Morrisons) transformed from bare walls to an Innertube map art extravaganza.

The project which is being managed locally by the Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre will see a design which is featured around the Innertube Map painted onto the walls in the tunnel.

Local youngsters get practising for taking part in the project. (Picture: Thomas Brown)
Local youngsters get practising for taking part in the project. (Picture: Thomas Brown)

Leith-based artist Chris Young has been commissioned to come up with the design, work with local young people to develop the design and implement it. Chris has been involved a variety of community lead projects and is looking forward to starting at the Granton site next week.

The design that Chris proposed at the site was then taken to local young people at Fet Lor Youth Centre and they had a chance to make comments and even have their own artwork included in the plans.

Last night Chris attended their youth club and they had the opportunity to prepare a design and painting their design. Around 13 young people took part and these young people will all be involved in the implementation of the project on the tunnel.

Don’t worry, if you would like to have the chance to get involved or fancy doing some painting at the tunnel with Chris then please contact Thomas Brown at Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre on 0131 315 4989 or email thomas@drylawnc.org.uk   Over the coming weeks we will be updating on the progress at the tunnel and keeping you informed how you can get involved.

You can see a short video below of what the young people made at Fet Lor and also see their finished product.

Total Craigroyston run training session on housing

Total Craigroyston are running a training session on housing options for local staff. The session is on 20th March, registration at 9.30 am, at Spartans Community Football Academy.

This session will cover Housing Options, homelessness prevention, early housing intervention, issues around welfare reform, as well as housing support and advice services.

The session is aimed primarily at staff whose clients could be affected by homelessness or experience other problems with their housing.

If you would like to go to the training then please get in touch with info@totalcraigroyston.co.uk.

Granton Campus hit by food scare

EdColl Tuna sandwiches may be the cause of an outbreak of illness at Granton Campus – the former Telford College – yesterday afternoon. Seven students and staff were taken to hospital suffering from an allergic reaction which is being linked to tuna.

Head of Communications at the college Moira Findlay said “An isolated incident occurred this afternoon at Granton Campus of Edinburgh College, where a small number of students and staff suffered an allergic reaction.

The incident is currently under investigation, but it is believed that this may be linked to a batch of tuna sandwiches.

An ambulance team from Scottish Ambulance Service attended to a small number of patients on site, who responded well to treatment.  Almost all have been admitted to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, for observation.”