The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Wednesday 11 September 2024
Hutchison Vale football fraud probe, Drumbrae travellers debate, Javits expansion + Tool Library's 10th birthday festival
🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. It’s another ‘sometimes sunny but cold in the shade’ sort of day today. Here’s Wednesday’s Edinburgh Minute.
⚽️ Police say they're investigating a report of fraud after parents at Hutchison Vale under 16s football club claimed they were £25,000 out of pocket. The money was raised for a tournament in Spain which was never booked. - Jack Foster & Craig Turnbull, Forth 1 News.
🚅 Hundreds of passengers on an Edinburgh-bound train were 'stranded' overnight into the early hours of Tuesday morning after a fault on the tracks. - Rory Cassidy & Katie Williams, Daily Record.
⛺️ Tensions over travellers in Drumbrae will be heard in parliament this week. - Kevin Quinn, Evening News.
⮑ Last month it was reported a live chicken was among things left behind on the park next to Drumbrae Leisure Centre. - Phyllis Stephen, The Edinburgh Reporter.
🚨 Police say they are following up on local concerns about anti-social behaviour in the Nicolson Square area. - John Hislop, The Edinburgh Reporter.
🍟 Javits takeaway has submitted plan to merge two units at Westside Plaza in Wester Hailes. - Kris Gourlay, Edinburgh Live.
🗣️ The council’s new Transport and Environment Convener Stephen Jenkinson says ‘tough decisions will have to be made’ as he weighs up his ambitions with the reality of funding cuts. - He’s interviewed in the Edinburgh Inquirer.
🏡 New three-bedroom townhouses built on the site of the former Royal Hospital for Sick Children campus opposite the Meadows are now on sale. Prices range from £1.55 to £1.75 million. - The Edinburgh Reporter.
🛠️ A series of events celebrating Edinburgh Tool Library’s 10th birthday was launched at Leith Walk Police Box. Crafting, making, repair cafes, family-friendly woodworking (and robot building) and film screenings are among the events planned around town for the rest of this year. - See the listings on Eventbrite.
🛜 Do the dangers posed by artificial intelligence outweigh the benefits? Academics from the University of Edinburgh look at both the positives and the drawbacks of the technology. - Lewis Michie, STV News.
📆 Today’s the council’s planning committee meets from 10am. On the agenda: Proposed compulsory purchase order of land at Meadowbank, a report on designating South Queensferry as a ‘town centre’ as opposed to a ‘local centre’, the Seafield masterplan, the draft Princes Street and Waverley Valley strategy + an update on the council’s ‘affordable housing’ programme.
⮑ Tomorrow’s Transport and Environment Committee agenda includes: an update on the council’s George Street and First New Town project, table & chair permits + the draft Climate Ready Edinburgh plan.
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📌 “Do you want to sing? Join us at Songworks Community Choir, Thursdays 7-9pm at Columcille Centre, 2 Newbattle Terrace, in Morningside. New term starts 19 September, see website for further details.” - Thanks to Songworks for sharing this.
📌 “Volunteer Recruitment Fair 2024. This year the fair will be held on 1 October 2024 from 10:00 until 17:30 at St Paul's and St George's Church on York Place. Scotland’s largest Volunteer Recruitment Fair is delivered annually by Volunteer Edinburgh, helping hundreds of people in their search for opportunities.” - Thank you to Volunteer Edinburgh for sharing this.
📌 “'The Assisted Dying (Scotland) Bill - Many Risks, Few Safeguards’ event in the Solicitors to the Supreme Courts Society Lounge, Parliament House, Edinburgh on Wednesday 25 September 2024 at 6pm. All welcome eg students, lawyers, medics. Discussion of challenges presented by the proposed new legislation and comparison with other countries.” - Thanks to subscriber June for sharing this.
📌 “Join Take One Action at the Grassmarket Community project for a screening of Until The End of the World, a journalistic exploration of commercial fish farming worldwide and its impacts. We'll also have a Q&A with director Francesco de Augustinis and an exploration of the issue here in Scotland, and how it manifests in the salmon farming industry. We'll hear from Rob Edwards from The Ferret, veteran environmental journalist and there will be the chance to ask questions and access resources to find out more.” - Thank you to Rachel, Take One Action, for sharing this.
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Unrelated to any of today's points & apologies if an edition earlier in the week pointed this out but the bus trackers do now seem to be tracking, if the westbound 44 stop by the RSA is anything to go by.
Yes, I noticed they were working eastbound in Fountainbridge yesterday evening. At last!