… but you don’t have to take them all!
The Scottish SPCA is appealing for help rehoming 16 beautiful bunnies who have made a fantastic recovery from a case of snuffles. The rabbits are currently housed at Edinburgh and Lothians Animal Rescue and Rehoming Centre as they look to start a new life with a loving family. Continue reading Scottish SPCA seeks homes for sixteen beautiful bunnies
Friday 30th September
Castlebrae Business Centre, Peffer Place, Edinburgh, EH16 4BB
10.30am – 1.30pm
Free admission
Home Instead Senior Care is celebrating five years caring for older people across Edinburgh by holding an Older Person’s Companionship Day alongside the annual Macmillan Coffee Morning. The day will bring together a host of local organisations giving people a chance to meet with those helping with companionship and befriending services. Continue reading Older People’s Companionship Day
Parliament will debate creating a new offence to hold abusive partners to account, after it was announced in the Programme for Government. Continue reading No excuses: Holyrood to debate new law to tackle domestic abuse
Police are searching for a group of youths following a serious collision in Groathill Road North this morning. An out of control Mercedes ploughed through a fence and into a stationery caravan in a garden in the busy street just after 8am and witnesses report seeing young people fleeing the scene. Police have enlisted the support of the aerial support to search for the culprits. Continue reading Police helicopter joins hunt for Groathill youths
Edinburgh may be poppy-less in the future if more volunteers aren’t found in the run up to the Scottish Poppy Appeal. Charity Poppyscotland has issued an urgent appeal for area organisers in the capital. Continue reading PoppyScotland issues urgent call for Edinburgh volunteers
Housing Minister Kevin Stewart marked the start of work on a new affordable housing development in the capital when he visit Shrubhill yesterday. Mr Stewart joined representatives from the City of Edinburgh Council and property developers Places for People, during his visit to the development which will provide 236 much needed affordable homes in the north of the city. Continue reading Hundreds of affordable homes set for Shrubhill
Guarantees over the future of Scotland’s mountain weather forecasts were sought by Green MSP Andy Wightman at Holyrood yesterday.
Reports emerged over the weekend suggesting that SportScotland is to end funding of the Mountain Weather Information Service, and In spite of repeatedly asking the Minister for Public Health and Sport if SportScotland had told the Mountain Weather Information Service at a meeting on July 2016 that its funding would end, Ms Campbell was unable to provide an answer.
Andy Wightman MSP, the Scottish Greens’ housing & land reform spokesperson, said: “I’m glad that the minister shares my view that the forecast service is an essential service for climber and walker safety in Scotland and that conversations with the government and its agencies are ongoing. However, the public will be looking for more transparency over what the current funding set up is and how that has been communicated to the MWIS. I’ll continue to seek updates from the minister to guarantee the long-term future of mountain weather-forecasting.
“This is a service that has provided trusted detailed forecasting for mountain users for 13 years and SportScotland has funded it since 2007. It’s a service that is trusted and relied upon by hundreds of thousands of users of Scotland’s mountains every year and safety and enjoyment of those who use our mountains is dependent upon accurate reliable, and above all trusted sources of weather forecasts.”
SUNDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 1.30 – 4.30pm
Inverleith Park (East)
Mondays, 12 – 2pm at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre
Hi folks,
Just to say the Chat Café is up and running again and looking for new people to get involved. It’s for people new to the area, who may be learning English and for longer term residents too who want a chance to get out of the house, meet new people and help new folk settle in. It’s a simple way to get people out of the house to make new friends and support each other.
There is a free creche, so it’s especially useful for young parents who can be very isolated, especially if they are recent arrivals and don’t have family support around them. We talk, share a meal, go on trips, share information etc. All very relaxed and informal.
Chat Café
Mondays 12.00pm – 2.00pm
Royston Wardieburn Community Centre Cafe
Dear Editor,
Industry and agriculture across the world are already capable of providing for the needs of people everywhere, if this is the case why is it not being done? Millions are living in poverty and millions are living on the edge of starvation What are the causes of this terrible situation, and is it beyond our thinking to devise a system that doesn’t have slumps, unemployment and hardship imposed on people?
The present system of capitalism where financial institutions and individuals command great wealth and power that goes with it moving money around the world seeking maximum profit as their main and only consideration.
The question must arise, how did they manage to acquire this great wealth and power to control peoples lives? Historically, through stealing and fighting to obtain land then being in a position to control the lives of people who lived on the land ,this being done through systems of work, Slavery, Serfdom, Feudalism.
Rapid technology from the 17th century on brought in the present system of Capitalism, maintaining their control of the most valuable asset, peoples labour time New technologies increase the inability of the Capitalist system to organise and solve problems here and worldwide because it is based on private wealth and interests.
The value of articles is based on costs of materials, power, transport, etc. and the amount of wages paid to produce it. If this process takes a percentage of a working day, say 4 hours out of 8 hours, everything produced in the second 4 hours is free of labour costs: this is the source of their profits. The flaw in the system is that more is being produced than can be bought by the people that produced them, This is why the capitalist system goes from boom to slump repeatedly, devastating peoples lives.
This surplus of goods is partially covered by exporting and/or trade wars with other countries, but the problem cannot be solved that way particularly as ever new technology is develops. Capitalism is no longer able to solve its problems; it twists and turns but will not give up its control over peoples time. Extending zero hours contracts and the junior doctors working hours are modern variations of slavery in which the employers control not only working time but all time.
This kind of freedom for the wealthy few denies freedom for millions and, as we see every day, sometimes their lives.
Tony Delahoy
Silverknowes Gardens
