The full Final Business Case (FBC) for taking trams to Newhaven was published yesterday – the day after city councillors voted to make cuts of £33 million to council services and shed up to 200 jobs. The £200 million tram line extention has the full backing of the city’s ruling SNP – Labour ‘Capital Coalition’, so it’s almost certain that the controversial project will get the green light next month. Continue reading Forget council cuts … here comes your tram extension
Port of Leith Housing Association (PoLHA) has been named one of The Sunday Times’ 100 Best UK Not-For-Profit Organisations to Work For 2019. Continue reading Port of Leith Housing Association is one of UK’s Best Places to Work
Ray of hope for projects hammered by Health & Social Care grant cuts
Up to 200 council jobs in the Capital will go as the SNP-Labour administration passed a controversial austerity budget which sees £33 million of cuts to vital public services across the city. Continue reading Capital Coalition votes through £33 MILLION cuts package
This Saturday at Ocean Terminal
Marine Parade graffiti wall in Newhaven
Following the success of Rock the Dock, the launch event for the UK’s longest legal graffiti wall, artists from across Europe are set to return to Leith for a another community-led graffiti jam – this time with a skating twist. Continue reading Rock’n’Roll the Dock in Leith
Participatory Budgeting event: Leith Community Centre
Saturday 23rd February 12 – 3pm
There are 30 applicants to £eith Chooses – 8 for the ‘Food’ theme, and 22 for the ‘Supporting Vulnerable People’ theme. Lots of really great project ideas!
View them all here in the ‘£eith Chooses Gallery’.
Before the 23rd February
Email Caroline.Lamond@edinburgh.gov.uk for either / both of the above
On the day
Come early, if you can – doors open at 12 – don’t leave it to the last minute, because:
It’s the news that audiences from across Scotland have been waiting for, The Walt Disney Company UK and Ireland and the Edinburgh Playhouse has announced tickets to the award-winning musical THE LION KING will go on sale from 5 March 2019.
The iconic musical will be performed at The Edinburgh Playhouse from 5 December 2019. Continue reading Edinburgh Playhouse THE LION KING dates announced
Local MP Deidre Brock has warned that leaving the EU single market will severely damage Scotland’s world-leading games industry. Continue reading Game Over? Brock warns of Brexit threat to Scotland’s Games Industry
Police are appealing for witnesses following a hate crime on board a bus travelling in the Leith area. The incident happened between 5.40pm and 6.20pm on Monday (11th February) on board the Number 22 Lothian Bus service from Ocean Terminal to The Gyle. Continue reading Hate crime on Edinburgh bus: police seek woman
Loan scheme to ease burden of owning a surgery Continue reading Funding boost for GP practices
Stockbridge Library
Thursday 28th February, 2.30 – 3.30pm
Choose life. Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location is a close analysis of Irvine Welsh’s book Trainspotting and the play and the film of the same name.
For author Tim Bell this is personal, bringing up a young family in Leith with it all going on around him. He got caught up in the literature and has been doing Trainspotting tours, interpreting the book on location for locals, tourists, aficionados and academics, for 15 years.
Book your free ticket by speaking to a member of staff or via the following LINK – https://bit.ly/2ULouOt
