Month: December 2017

The year in pictures: December

I’m a Celebrity? Former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale joins the cast but is quickly evicted

New £6.2 BILLION aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth springs a leak

Capital of Goodwill?

Christmas crafts in West Pilton

ASHA Christmas Bazaar in Granton

Storytelling at Easter Road

Tree planting in Muirhouse

PEP’s Panto

Sleep in the Park

Drylaw Church Christmas Fair

Forthview Christmas Fair

New Health Centre opens in Pennywell

Muirhouse Community Christmas Party

CAN Opener event at North Edinburgh Arts

 

Edinburgh Cheer initiative

Leonardo staff salute armed forces personnel at Christmas

Civil Service Strollers hold food bank collection

Swinney sets Christmas Holiday challenge

New strips for Leith Primary

Author Alan Bissett visits Spartans Alternative School at Fet-Lor

Wreath-making at North Edinburgh Arts

SHE Scotland event at North Edinburgh Arts

Socks for the Street visits Holyrood

Trump reignites troubles in Jerusalem

Breakthrough in Brexit talks

Joe and Katya win Strictly

Edinburgh Charity Festival at Inverleith

National award for ELREC

The year in pictures: November

Edinburgh Music School Open Day … despite closure threat (later lifted)

Living in Harmony training

Public Meeting to discuss effects of welfare reforms

Forth 1 kicks off Christmas charity appeal

Granton & District Community Council holds open meeting on planning democracy

Wardie Bay Beachwatch: the message is getting though at last (helped by Blue Planet 2)

Hearts players get the Christmas jumpers on early to support Save the Children

16 days of action against gender-based violence

At last … a memorial for Edinburgh’s Elsie Inglis is unveiled at Central Library

Muirhouse Shopping Centre’s coming down …

… so what happens next?

Castle Street Christmas Fair

Paolozzi sculptures take a walk to Hillside Place while Leith Street works continue

Granton Community Gardeners prepare Harvest Meal

Housing Minister visits Muirhouse regeneration area

St Andrew’s Day appeal

First Minister lays wreath on Remembrance Sunday

Muirhouse Housing Association: Moneywise at Craigroyston High School

Robert Mugabe forced out

Royal couple celebrate 70th wedding anniversary

and Price Harry gets engaged

Tree planting on West Pilton Park

Charity cheque from Leonardo’s

Da Vinci painting sells for record £341 million

Ferryhill Christmas Fayre

 

The year in pictures: October

Operation Myriad success

Louise Redknapp stars in Cabaret at Edinburgh Playhouse

Ever-popular charity catwalk fundraiser

Their noble Lordships are at it again …

Madelvic House event

Bake Off finalists

Catalans confronted by Spanish police

Sean Hughes dies

North Edinburgh Fights Back lobbies council meeting

SuperMoon

Harvey Weinstein exposed

Las Vegas shootings

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Monarch Airlines goes bust

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Halloween at Morrisons

Bake Off winner

Art Exhibition for St Columba’s

World Mental Health Day

 

 

The year in pictures: September

Hurricane Irma devastates the Carribean

New gardening group at Granton Youth Centre

Strictly Come Dancing lineup announced

Cheese and wine at Starbank Park

Glowing Gold in September

Community Day in Granton

Inverleith Festival of Walking & Cycling

Davidsons Mains pipe band make a record

ParkLife AGM

Wardie Bay Beachwatch

Dearie me …

The MELA’S back after an enforced absence

Immigration Party at Porty

Aussie Big Band at Bristo Baptist Church

66 Yessers on the march again: Hope Over Fear event in Glasgow

USA and North Korea: more sabre-rattling

North Korea escalates nuclear threat

Traffic misery on Leith Street

Open Day at Fettes HQ

Queensferry Crossing opens

Bus driver miscalculates at Western General

Curry Night at West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre

Ryanair messes up big time over holiday rosters … and there’s even an apology!

Rohingyan families flee persecution in Myanmar

The year in pictures: August

Las Ramblas terror attack in Barcelona

Cash for Kids support for Pilton Youth & Children’s Project

Actor Robert Hardy dies

Hearts sack first team coach Ian Cathro

Yes, it’s Festival time again in Edinburgh

Botanics’ smelly plant makes annual reappearance

Twentieth anniversary of Princess Diana’s death

Community is outraged when a ten year old boy is mown down by a hit and run motorcyclist near Drylaw Police Station

Free football at West Pilton Park

North Korea and USA engage in another bout of sabre-rattling … but on a nuclear scale

Fortieth anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death

Edinburgh Mela’s back!

Racial tensions run high during white supremacist march, Charlotttesville

Dementia awareness event at The Botanics

Bruce Forsyth dies

Craig Levein lands Hearts job

Sierra Leone mudslide kills hundreds and leaves tens of thousands homeless

Mayweather stops Conor McGregor in tenth round of multi-million dollar ‘Fight of the Century’

Kezia Dugdale resigns as Scottish Labour leader

Trinity Community Gala

World of Football opens on Marine Drive

The year in pictures: July

A well-kent face opens new GP surgery at foot of Leith Walk

Community BBQ

Hidden Gems Walks make a welcome return

Sci-Fi Fun at West Piltun!

Charlie Gard’s parents give up their fight

Conservatives reach an expensive deal with DUP

Teddy Bear Picnic at Starbank Park

Spartans support CHAS

Social Bite waterfront housing plans take shape

Jumble and Bake sale at Royston Wardieburn

World Para Athletics Championships take place in London

Floral Clock marks The Scotsman’s centenary

Granton kids take their movies to Europe

First Minister visits Botanics

Playday in Muirhouse

Duvet Morning in Ferry Road Drive

Edinburgh Airport plans to expand