Category: North Edinburgh News

One in four Scottish children live in poverty as parents locked out of job market

Ambitious targets to reduce child poverty will stall, warns charity

In its state of the nation report, Poverty in Scotland 2018 (below), the independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) warns one in four (230,000) children in Scotland live in poverty. The report comes as Challenge Poverty? Aye we can! gets underway, a campaign by the Poverty Alliance which shows how poverty in Scotland can be solved and allow everyone to take part in society. Continue reading One in four Scottish children live in poverty as parents locked out of job market

Save Leith Walk respond to Drum statement

Save Leith Walk has submitted 15,850 objections to Drum Property’s
plan to demolish 106-154 Leith Walk, to destroy the independent
businesses using the building and to build an over-tall and
dominating student residence in its place. All these objections
were gathered voluntarily and everyone given an opportunity to make
their own personal views clear.

Continue reading Save Leith Walk respond to Drum statement

Support for Drum’s Leith Walk plans

Drum’s future vision for Leith Walk

Drum Property Group has revealed high levels of public support for its planning application which is set to transform Stead’s Place, near the foot of Leith Walk. More than 2,000 letters of support for Drum’s development proposals have been lodged with the City of Edinburgh Council, in advance of the committee hearing later this year. Continue reading Support for Drum’s Leith Walk plans

Should we be sending dirty nappies in the post instead of crisp packets?

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Last week, environmental protesters have hit the headlines for posting their empty crisp packets back to the UK’s largest crisp makers, Walkers – but ready salted snacks aren’t the only offenders. Continue reading Should we be sending dirty nappies in the post instead of crisp packets?