Leith local election candidates faced the voters last night at the Leith Links hustings. On the menu were crucial issues for the port including the biomass proposal and the tram project. Leith Waterworld was also discussed and the closure of the family-friendly pool last January has not deterred campaigners, Splashback, from trying to reopen it. Edinburgh Napier News [...]
A charity fashion show has raised nearly £3,000 for children’s charity CHAS. Thursday night saw the opening of Edinburgh’s glamourous fashion event which showcases the work of both student and established designers. The event, organised by students at Edinburgh University, will run a special VIP event tonight (Friday, the 30th) and finish with a [...]
It’s campaign time and on May the 3rd voters will choose the future of the city transport. Transport had been in the spotlight in recent years due to the troubled tram project. Now Edinburgh faces another challenge with European Union strict standards on air pollution. The Green party have highlighted the deadline for the city [...]
The West Lothian zoo is appealing for £60,000 to be raised for three former circus bears. Carmen, Suzi and Peggy are currently in a holding pen in Belgium where they have been held in cages barely bigger then themselves. For the last 20 years they have been transported around Europe as part of a circus [...]
The family of John Carter who was beaten and left to die in a lift in Edinburgh’s Salamander Court in February last year have said “nothing can lessen the heartache we have gone through”. Their statement comes a few hours after Simon Brown and Paul Banks were found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced in [...]
One of Britain’s largest Model United Nations Conferences took place in Edinburgh this weekend. Over 600 teenagers took part in the three-day conference at George Watson’s College. Now in its sixth year, it is the biggest school-based MUN in Scotland and attracts participants from as far afield as Egypt and Turkey. Alexandra Wingate reports exclusively [...]
Staff and students at Jewel and Esk College have launched a new record label, Feast Records. Utilizing the college’s impressive array of recording equipment the label is aimed at promoting “new young musical talent in Scotland”. An event will be held to celebrate the new label on the 30th of March at Edinburgh’s Electric. The [...]
According to a new report Scotland’s capital contributes more to the country’s economy than any other city in the UK. The study was released by London based accountancy firm UHY Hacker Young. Their calculations are based on Gross Value Added (GVA). It basically means the measure of a region’s contribution to the UK economy according [...]
Come rain or shine, this week will see the kick off of the 25th annual Edinburgh International Science Festival. Preparations for the March 30th opening are going “pretty good” according to Frances Sutton, PR manager for the festival, as works are continues to set up for the nearly 200 events being offered this year. Final [...]
Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, has made controversial claims that women should be shown scans of their unborn child before proceeding with an abortion. The leader of Scotland’s Catholic Church said he thinks the NHS should introduce the measure which is currently used in America in order to reduce terminations in Scotland. In [...]
A rare automaton of a black man smoking a cigarette will be sold at auction by Lyon & Turnbull this week. Valued at around £1500, the piece is made by famous Frenchman Vichy and dates from the period 1860 to 1910, known as “The Golden Age of Automata”. Sourced from a private collection near Dundee, [...]
Edinburgh University’s Pollock Halls have the best accommodation fire safety record in Scotland. Following Freedom Of Information requests to Scotland’s largest universities, Napier News discovered that the Fire Brigade were only called to Edinburgh University’s Holyrood halls twice in the last academic year. The site, which houses around 2000 students, has seen dramatic improvements following [...]
The next set of tram works are due to begin this weekend. The existing tram works at Shandwick Place and Haymarket are now being extended to cover West Maitland Street. The works are set to take place from 5’oclock tomorrow morning with other traffic divisions being put in place. Edinburgh Council has thanked the local [...]
A letting agency in Scotland is making the Polish community feel at home by providing information, linguistic support and adverts in the Polish language. Edinburgh has an estimated Polish population of 8,000 and there is a growing number of restaurants, supermarkets and delicatessens in the city. Edinburgh Napier News spoke to Letting Solutions Manager Brian [...]
Edinburgh Napier News speaks exclusively to two of Edinburgh’s newest cafes. Sarah Turnbull reports. Listen here:
After the drama of last weekend’s Six Nations’ climax, the next two days promise a much quieter weekend of sport. Football In the SPL, Hibernian take on Dundee United on Saturday, while Perth side St. Johnstone face Hearts. Other matches include Aberdeen v Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Dunfermline v St Mirren and Kilmarnock v Motherwell. The [...]
Tickets for the Edinburgh International Festival will go on sale tomorrow, 24 March 2012. The festival, which will run from the 9th of August to the 2nd of September, will showcase talents from 47 nations in performances of theatre, opera, dance and music. 4 million people will flock to Scotland’s capital city to watch 40, [...]
Council contractors have cut down five trees along the Water of Leith, despite earlier promises they would be protected. Stop the Chop campaigners were informed of the reversal on Thursday, with three trees removed within 24 hours. The two remaining trees were cut down earlier today. Stop the Chop’s anonymous petition organiser said that [...]
A broken traffic light in Edinburgh’s West End has caused severe delays during rush hour today. The fault is a result of a glitch in the computer system that controls the lights. The biggest problem areas are Haymarket and George Street. Delays are lasting up to thirty minutes in these areas. The lights are changing [...]
Activists from Edinburgh joined the worldwide commemorations of the Tibetan National Uprising Day on Saturday with a march through the Scottish capital. This year marks the 53rd anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising in the country’s capital, Lhasa. The Uprising erupted on 10 March 1952, a decade after the Chinese invasion of the country. One of [...]
An Edinburgh couple have been held at knife-point and robbed in their own home. A group of armed men entered the house on Barnton Avenue West at around nine thirty on Friday evening. Police have disclosed that a four figure sum of money and jewellery were taken from the house. It is believed that two [...]
This week volunteers, business people, residents and council workers have been cleaning up the Royal Mile. The work is helping to conserve and manage the famous street to stop its reputation slipping. After a workshop organised by the council thirty people split into groups of four to repaint, pick up litter and remove graffiti from [...]
Motorists are being reminded to adjust their travel plans as urgent repairs to the Forth Road Bridge will see traffic restricted to a single lane this weekend. The work was scheduled at short notice after damage was discovered to nuts on the bolts on the bridge’s main suspension cables and will close from 3am to 12pm [...]
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Comment: George Watson’s College’s MUN Conference
If there’s one group we like to blame society’s problems on, it’s young people. These binge drinking hoody wearers are disaffected, uncaring and couldn’t spell “politics” if their entire Spelling Bee credibility depended on it, right? Wrong. While some of us continue to bury years of repressed memories of endless evenings spent crying over boys [...]