Twelve things you didn’t know about the spectacular winter trail, Christmas at the Botanics, which returns for its third consecutive year running for 30 nights from 22 November to 29 December.
Tickets for this year’s show are currently on sale. For further ticket information, pricing and timings, please visit https://www.rbge.org.uk/whats-on/christmas-at-the-botanics-2019/ Continue reading 12 days of Christmas at The Botanics
STOCKBRIDGE LIBRARY
Saturday 23 November at 2.15pm
Film of the Book – 1984.
25 year anniversary screening of the film. This is an accessible film event with subtitles for those who are deaf or hard of hearing. Audience 15+
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Muirhouse library partners with Craigroyston Community High School to spark conversation about identity and self-expression
Scottish Book Trust, the national charity changing lives through reading and writing, has announced that Glasgow-based poet and young adult author Dean Atta will visit Muirhouse Library for Book Week Scotland 2019 on Monday 18 November from 11am – 12.30pm. Continue reading Dean Atta comes to Muirhouse Library for Book Week Scotland event
From unsighly hoardings and dodgy scaffolding to disrespectful tratment of memorial benches and lax planning enforcement, the council has come in for a lot of criticism over Edinburgh’s Hogmanay 2019 preparations.
This is the council’s response: Continue reading Bah humbug! Council responds to Christmas criticism
The Rt Hon Lord Provost and Lord Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh Frank Ross joined First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and senior military personnel, members of the wider Armed Forces community and members of the emergency services for the official wreath-laying ceremony at the Stone of Remembrance yesterday. Continue reading Scotland remembers
Edinburgh’s Community Alcohol Partnerships are launching Alcohol Awareness Week between 10am – midday in the Market Place at Waverley Train Station this morning. Continue reading CAPs mark Alcohol Awareness Week
Strike ballot gets underway at distribution firm
Morrisons supermarkets across Scotland could be hit by food shortages in the run up to Christmas as an industrial action ballot gets underway today in its distribution partner XPO Logistic. Continue reading Christmas food shortage threat at Morrisons
