Author: davepickering

Edinburgh reporter and photographer

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

 

Message from the Skies set to light up Edinburgh

Lucy’s in the skies!

A talented Davidsons Mains pupil will see her words in lights when an imaginative new project launches next week. Edinburgh’s Hogmanay is to celebrate Edinburgh’s and Scotland’s rich literary heritage and its young people with the launch of the innovative and collaborative Message from the Skies. Continue reading Message from the Skies set to light up Edinburgh

Staying safe over Hogmanay

People should ’know who to turn to’ for health advice ahead of the New Year weekend. Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith says it’s really important to know where to go for help over New Year, with seasonal illnesses such as flu and norovirus rising and further weather warnings for snow and ice that can lead to road accidents, slips and falls. Continue reading Staying safe over Hogmanay

New Year Honours for Edinburgh’s ‘extraordinary people’

A community pharmacist, the driving force behind Spartans Community Football Academy, a voluntary sector leader and the founders of SiMBA and Street Soccer are among the Edinburgh folk to receive New Year Honours announced yesterday. Continue reading New Year Honours for Edinburgh’s ‘extraordinary people’

The year in pictures: June

Granton Community Garden Open Day

All About Me course comes to an end

Adam West, best known as TV’s caped crusader Batman, dies

One Love Manchester gig: a city unites against terrorism

Young Carers benefit gig

London Bridge terror attack

Trump turns his back on global pact

Theresa May wishes she hadn’t called that snap general election …

Amazing Harmonies at West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre

Prince Edward visits new Fet-Lor

North Edinburgh Young People’s Forum Awards Night

Lifeline collapses

Short and sweet: UKIP leader Paul Nuttall calls it a day

St Columba’s Charity Disco

Grenfell Tower: an awful accident waiting to happen …

Power of Food Festival

 

PYCP’s AGM

 

Young Carers benefit gig

Minions are back – Despicable Me 3

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Hoardings project

The year in pictures: May

Massacre in Manchester

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CAN holds People Powered Community event

Another terror attack – this time it’s New York

SAMH Redhall Walled Garden opens it’s gates

Portugal wins Eurovision Song Contest

Saving a life at the community shop

 

Sgt Pepper is fifty!

Planting day at West Pilton Park

Enough’s enough: Prince Philip steps back from public duties

Gala at The Botanics

Special anniversary event for North Edinburgh Childcare

Drama in Leith

Stockbridge Colonies Yard Sale

An evening of European culture at North Edinburgh Arts

Goldenacre bowls

Singing out with the Timebank Temptations

Table Sale at Royston Wardieburn

Ukelele Day!

HOLYROOD ELECTIONS: SNP returned as biggest party … but no overall majority

COUNCIL ELECTIONS: SNP takes Edinburgh with the Conservatives close behind

 

Picnic at Starbank Park

Moors murderer Ian Brady dies

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Local women fight back against benefit reforms

MYDG’s circus skills project exhibition at North Edinburgh Arts

Pilton Community Health Project launches latest recipe book

Fair Trade Fiesta

Fifty years since Celtic won the European Cup

A Very Clever Cat ccomes to North Edinburgh Arts

Corbyn’s cunning plan …

Fire at the old Royal Victoria Hospital building in Craigleith

Woman cyclist killed at West End

Brushing up your skills in Muirhouse

Theresa May surprises the nation and calls a snap general election in June: not too keen on public debates, though!

Jo Cox one year on

Woman pedestrian dies in Davidsons Mains bus accident

Jack Sparrow’s back

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FashionABLE event at Waverley Station

Victory for Macron in France

 

 

The year in pictures: April

Here we go: Brexit negotiations begin

Austerity is never far from the headlines

The UKIP Dream Team or Dumb and Dumber: Paul Nuttall with Nigel Farage

One for Arthur becomes only the second Scottish-trained winner of the Grand National

Event to mark World Autism Day

City council elections are looming: ELREC organises registration event

Open Weekend at Granton Hub

Election Fever? Craigleith Blackhall CC organises local election hustings

Social singing group starts at North Edinburgh Arts

Easter Funday with the Centipede Project

Granton & District Cc’s local election hustings cancelled

Bert’s Easter Egg hunt in North Edinburgh Arts garden

Edinburgh Helping Hands organise free community football sessions at Millennium Park

Holyrood turns on ‘heartless’ Tories

Another year ticks by: Madeleine McCann now missing for ten years (3 May)

ELREC pose an uncomfortable question …

Final lineup in Forth …

Cleaning up the planet, starting in Leith …

Borussia Dortmund team coach is attacked

Big Spring Clean in Muirhouse and Pennywell

Leith celebration

Let’s hear it for the girls?

 

Green light for new film and broacdcasting studio complex at Loanhead

 

Porgy and Bess: Scottish National Zazz Orchestra at Usher Hall

Home truths: Edinburgh’s housing stock depleted by short-term lets

Capital-ism: Edinburgh landlords fill their boots while waiting lists grow longer

More than 30 landlords are operating lucrative short term letting businesses in Scotland’s capital, a new report reveals, adding to the pressure on Edinburgh’s housing stock.  Continue reading Home truths: Edinburgh’s housing stock depleted by short-term lets