ROOST AUCTION THIS WEEKEND
Custom Lane, Commercial Street
Dreamboats and Petticoats The Musical returns to celebrate 10 years of the multi-million selling albums that inspired the Olivier Award nominated musical. The show opened at Theatre Royal Windsor in January before embarking on a nationwide tour which arrives in Edinburgh next week. Continue reading Dreamboats and Petticoats at The Playhouse
Edinburgh’s most spectacular local festival returned to Calton Hill at the weekend for the revived tradition of the Beltane Fire Festival. Run by the Beltane Fire Society, celebrating their 30th festival, it was another wild night of revelry, fire-play, interactive physical theatre and thunderous drums. Continue reading Beltane Fire Festival: ‘celebration in it’s purest form’
ZOO ARTS: NATIONAL GALLERIES VISIT
Wednesday 17 May Continue reading Zoo Arts: Free trip to National Galleries
Local business owners who take on temporary workers over the next few months are being warned not to let paperwork oversights give them the summertime blues. Continue reading Don’t let holiday workforce give you the summertime blues, local business owners warned
COMING up next Friday (12 May at 12.00pm) is ‘fashionABLE‘ catwalk show in Waverley Station with special appearance from Jack Eyers in his World Fair Trade tartan kilt. Continue reading Full steam ahead for fashionABLE catwalk show
The City of Edinburgh Council election – Thursday 4th May 2017
Scotland goes to the polls to elect new local councillors today. There are seventeen wards within the City of Edinburgh Council area and a total of 63 councillors. Three or four candidates are elected in each ward.
Your polling place will be on your poll card or you can find your polling place using the Find your polling place tool Polling stations are open from 7am – 10pm.
The voting system for this election is the Single Transferable Vote (STV). You should vote using numbers (1 for your first choice candidate, 2 for your second, etc) and can vote for as many or as few as you wish.
The names of the candidates for each ward are listed below in te order that they appear on the ballot paper:
FRASER, Daniel (Scottish Libertarian Party)
HUTCHISON, Graham (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
INGLIS, Otto (UKIP)
LANG, Kevin (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
LONGSTAFF, John (Independent)
MCKINNON-WADDELL, Iain (Scottish Green Party)
MITCHELL, Pamela (Scottish National Party (SNP))
WHITEHEAD, Bruce (Scottish Labour Party)
WORK, Norrie (Scottish National Party (SNP))
YOUNG, Louise (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
BRUCE, Graeme (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
FARTHING, Emma (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
GARDINER, Neil (Scottish National Party (SNP))
HENDERSON, Ricky (Scottish Labour Party)
NOREIKIENE, Ernesta (Scottish National Party (SNP))
WEBBER, Susan (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
WESTON, Evelyn (Scottish Green Party)
ALDRIDGE, Robert Christopher (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
BRIDGMAN, Claire (Scottish National Party (SNP))
BROWN, Mark (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
KEIL, Karen Ann (Scottish Labour Party)
MEYER, Phyl (Scottish Green Party)
BIRD, Eleanor (Scottish National Party (SNP))
CAMPBELL, Jim (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
DAY, Cammy (Scottish Labour Party)
GORDON, George (Scottish National Party (SNP))
MACKAY, Gillian (Scottish Green Party)
PUGH, Heather (Scottish Labour Party)
ROSS, Nicola (Independent)
WIGHT, Tim (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
BAGSHAW, Nigel (Scottish Green Party)
BARRIE, Gavin (Scottish National Party (SNP))
DALGLEISH, James (Scottish Labour Party)
LAIRD, Tom (Scottish Libertarian Party)
MITCHELL, Max (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
OSLER, Hal (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
WHYTE, Iain (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
WOOLNOUGH, Tina (Independent)
DOUGLAS, Scott (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
GLOYER, Gillian (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
NEVENS, Kate (Scottish Green Party)
NISBET, James (UKIP)
ROSS, Frank (Scottish National Party (SNP))
SCOTT, John Ferguson (Independent)
WHITELAW, June (Scottish Labour Party)
DIXON, Denis (Scottish National Party (SNP))
FULLERTON, Catherine (Scottish National Party (SNP))
GRACZYK, Ashley (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
HAYTER, Simon (Scottish National Party (SNP))
HEAP, Dan (Scottish Green Party)
SCOBIE, Devin Scott (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
SMITH, Carmel (Scottish Labour Party)
STRANGE, Calum (Scottish Libertarian Party)
WILSON, Donald (Scottish Labour Party)
ARTHUR, Scott (Scottish Labour Party)
DOGGART, Phil (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
LEWIS, Richard John (Scottish National Party (SNP))
MARSDEN, Sara (Scottish Green Party)
RUST, Jason (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
WALKER, David Richard (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
CORBETT, Gavin (Scottish Green Party)
JOHNSTON, Andrew (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
KEY, David (Scottish National Party (SNP))
LANG, Jenni (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
SUBRAMANI, Rojan (Independent)
WIMBERLEY, Anne (Scottish Labour Party)
COOK, Nick (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
HOWAT, Sandy (Scottish National Party (SNP))
LAND, Chris (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
MAIN, Melanie (Scottish Green Party)
ROSS, Neil (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
WATT, Mandy (Scottish Labour Party)
DORAN, Karen (Scottish Labour Party)
MILLER, Claire (Scottish Green Party)
MOWAT, Jo (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
RANKIN, Alasdair (Scottish National Party (SNP))
SIDOR, Peter (Scottish Libertarian Party)
STEVENS, David (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
DONALDSON, Marion (Scottish Labour Party)
GARDNER, Nick (Scottish Labour Party)
JACOBSEN, David Don (Socialist Labour Party)
MARGA, Cristina (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
MCNEESE-MECHAN, Amy (Scottish National Party (SNP))
MELVILLE, Alan Gordon (Independent)
RAE, Susan (Scottish Green Party)
RITCHIE, Lewis (Scottish National Party (SNP))
TOBERMANN, Harald (Independent)
ZAPOROZCENKO, Vita (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
BOOTH, Chas (Scottish Green Party)
DIJKSTRA-DOWNIE, Sanne (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
MCVEY, Adam (Scottish National Party (SNP))
MUNRO, Gordon John (Labour and Co-operative Party)
PENMAN, Paul (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
CAMPBELL, Ian (Scottish National Party (SNP))
GRIFFITHS, Joan (Labour and Co-operative Party)
HADFIELD, Patrick (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
LUNN, Alex (Scottish National Party (SNP))
MARTIN, Lyndsay (Labour and Co-operative Party)
MCLELLAN, John (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
STANIFORTH, Alex (Scottish Green Party)
WADHWA, Mridul (Scottish National Party (SNP))
BURGESS, Steve (Scottish Green Party)
DICKIE, Alison (Scottish National Party (SNP))
FARTHING, Dan (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
PERRY, Ian (Scottish Labour Party)
ROSE, Cameron (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
CAMERON, Lezley Marion (Scottish Labour Party)
HOWIE, Derek (Scottish National Party (SNP))
KNOX, John Christopher (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
MACINNES, Lesley (Scottish National Party (SNP))
NICHOL, John (Scottish Green Party)
POGSON, Tim (Scottish Labour Party)
SMITH, Stephanie (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
BRIDGMAN, Mike (Scottish National Party (SNP))
CAMPBELL, Kate (Scottish National Party (SNP))
CAMPBELL, Mary (Scottish Green Party)
CHILD, Maureen (Scottish Labour Party)
LAIDLAW, Callum (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
LESLIE, Callum (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
WALKER, David (Scottish Labour Party)