JUNIOR CREATIVE WRITING GROUP – TUESDAY 5th MAY 6 – 7pm
Do you love using your imagination to create stories?!
Join us at our Junior Creative Writing group this Tuesday, 5th May at 6pm 
This week we’ll be working as a group to write our very own picture book!
THURSDAY 23 APRIL at 7pm
Tune in to Facebook tomorrow night at 7pm for a Bedtime Story read by one of our librarians Faye.
She will be reading the beautiful, sensitive story of ‘Astrid and the Sky Calf’ written by Rosie Faragher.
If you miss it, don’t worry it will be staying up on Facebook for some time.
A reminder that our next Junior Creative Writing session will be on Tuesday 10th March at 6pm.
We’re having some special guests from Edinburgh Playhouse along to host a Matilda themed workshops.
Come and join us!
Ages 8+
Do you have an enquiry for the North or South West council locality offices?
Representatives from both will be at Drumbrae Library Hub on Thursdays from 2pm-4pm to assist you.
Pop along and meet them.
NEN PUBLISHED OUR FIRST BLOG POST ON THIS DAY IN 2011
The very first NEN blog post was published on this day in 2011. The post read:
Hello, and welcome to the brand new NEN blog.
For those of you not already familiar with the newspaper, we are a local community paper serving the North Edinburgh community. We’ve been here for over thirty years.
This blog, along with our new Facebook page and Twitter stream, represents our first foray into the world of social media. We really want to encourage more participation, more questions and ideas from the North Edinburgh community – both online and offline – and hope that these new tools will help us to do that.
We already have a good website, where you can always find the latest edition of the printed newspaper. The blog won’t be replacing that, but will instead be there to show people the latest news about the area, and also to help us cover the current funding crisis we are facing as an organisation.
Above all, we want to include your input on the blog – be it ideas for stories, comments, pictures and events. So get in touch!
The NEN’s website was sadly deleted when funding ceased but our social media presence continues on both Twitter and Facebook and the blog is still going strong with 10 – 12 posts daily.
2025 was the NEN blog’s busiest ever year with 36,000 visitors. As I write this we’ve published more than 38,000 posts – all of these remain accessible online – and we’re currently on a run of publishing on 2749 consecutive days.
When the NEN office in Crewe Road North closed much of the NEN archive material was lost, but thankfully some of our picture library was salvaged and can now be found at granton:hub (Madelvic House), where the volunteer archive team has also collated all remaining hard copies of the North Edinburgh News newspaper.
Hopefully, between the physical archive and the NEN blog, you can find all you need to know about our community’s rich history – and we’re adding to that history every day!
FRIENDS of CLERMISTON PARK
Community Survey – Share your views!
What would you change or add to the Park? We really want to hear from the Community. We would use the responses to shape what we focus on & to evidence any funding grants we apply for.
It takes 3 mins & can be anonymous if you want.
Its also simple, short & suitable for all ages! Please help any children or young people to fill out the survey so that we can hear from all age groups.
Survey Link: https://forms.gle/YDmWHjkJ1SDAGAq46
Printed copies available from Drumbrae Library Hub or download from our website.
Closing date: 30th November (St Andrew’s Day)
Thank you!
Road Policing officers are appealing for information following a crash in the Clermiston area.
Around 8.15pm last night (Friday, 14 November, 2025), we were called to a report of a crash on Clermiston Road involving a white Mercedes Vito van and a black Sur-Ron electric motorcycle.
Emergency services attended and the rider of the motorcycle, a 28-year-old man, was taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with what are described as serious injuries.
The road was closed to allow for investigations to be carried out and re-opened around 11.45pm.
Sergeant Paul Ewing said: “Our enquiries are ongoing, and I would ask anyone who has yet to speak to police to get in touch and review any dash-cam footage for anything that may assist with our enquiries.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101, quoting incident number 3236 of 14 November, 2025.
Road policing officers are appealing following a serious crash in the Drumbrae Terrace area.
The incident happened around 1.30am this morning (Thursday, 16 October), and involved a black Suzuki Jimny car which hit a building at Drumbrae park.
Emergency services attended and a 20-year-old man, a passenger, was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh where his condition is described as critical.
The driver, an 18-year-old man, and another passenger, a 19-year-old man, were treated at hospital for minor injuries.
Sergeant Grant Hastie said: “Our enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances and we are asking people in the area to check any private CCTV from the surrounding streets to see if they have captured anything that could assist.
“If you were driving in the area please also check to see if you have any dash-cam that might help with our investigation.”
Anyone with information is asked to call Police Scotland on 101, quoting incident number 0194 of Thursday, 16 October, 2025.
It’s the Edinburgh school half term break next week and we’ve got a full programme of events scheduled!
Booking is only required for the author visit from Emily McKenzie on Thursday which can be accessed from tomorrow morning at 10am with the following link:
