Senior Carer Pat Gibson has been recognised as one of the leading care home employees in Scotland at a prestigious evening awards ceremony celebrating the best of the independent care home sector in Scotland. Continue reading Senior Carer Pat shortlisted for national Care Award
The Scottish Conservatives have called for an extra £200million to be invested in GP services across Scotland.
Scotland will receive an additional £200million as a result of a Conservative pledge, announced today, to create 50 million more appointments in GP surgeries in England. Continue reading SNP must invest extra £200m in GP services, says Briggs
Youth work leaders in Scotland have launched a major national new campaign, calling for ALL political parties to ensure significant investment into the youth work sector. Continue reading National campaign to Save Youth Work
Police are continuing their enquiries and appealing for information after a cyclist was struck by a car in Edinburgh on Wednesday (6 November). Continue reading Hit and run on Mayfield Road: can you help?
TUESDAY 12th NOVEMBER 3.30 – 4.30pm
Competition time at Granton Library! Come and participate in our Bake-Off Event on 12th of November at 3.30pm and you might win one of these prizes:
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The ‘Classical Edinburgh’ exhibition (above) opens today at the City Art Centre.
Classical Edinburgh explores and examines the changes that have taken place in half a century of development which has seen the neo-classical New Town transform from an area of refined respectability to an integral part of a bustling cosmopolitan city.
Using Edwin Smith’s black and white images published in ‘The Making of Classical Edinburgh’ (1966) as a starting point, Colin McLean embarked on re-shooting and re-interpreting these seminal images.
As part of this fine exhibition you can also see a gallery of local photographer’s photos – the result of a recent public competition sponsored by Jessops.
There are eighteen fantastic photographs to view, including one by West Pilton’s Anne Conrad. Anne’s photograph, ‘India Street Short Cut!’ is below.
The exhibition is well worth a visit. It runs until 8 March … and it’s free!
Principal winner, Don Munro, The Scottish National Gallery at Night.
RUNNER UP
CATEGORY: WORKING LIFE
Title: Pumpkin spice and everything nice rush once upon a time in Edinburgh
Location: Princes Street
Category: Working Life
Photographer: Louise Liga Bite
On The Bus Home by Glenn McNaughton
Capital’s communities come together in Remembrance
This weekend, Edinburgh will join the rest of the world in observing Remembrance Day – a commemoration of the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and of civilians in times of war.
“Such crimes are utterly repugnant. They involve the degradation of other humans, treating them as if they were objects or animals to be transported and sold for exploitation.” – Lord Beckett
Four people who trafficked women from Slovakia to Scotland and forced their victims into prostitution and sham marriages have been jailed. Continue reading “Utterly repugnant”: human traffickers jailed at High Court
PUBLIC MEETING
Wednesday 27th November from 7 – 8pm
Drylaw Parish Church, Groathill Road North
A research team from Queen’s University Belfast has found that coffee drinkers have a lower risk of the most common type of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
The results were presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) conference in Glasgow this week and was published in British Journal of Cancer earlier this year. Continue reading Researchers discover coffee drinkers could halve their risk of liver cancer
