The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Tuesday 24 September 2024
Corstorphine Connections delay, Cowgate bike attack update, new Rose Street bar, new bus route + a Bruntsfield book festival
️🌦️ Good morning Edinburgh. Here’s Tuesday’s Edinburgh Minute.
🚦 The council has delayed its final decision on the Corstorphine Connections Low Traffic Neighbourhood trial scheme. Councillors were due to vote on the project’s future at today’s 10am Traffic Regulation Orders Sub-Committee meeting. - “However it has now emerged that report was pulled just hours before the meeting over concerns objections "weren’t clearly being articulated in the report,” writes Local Democracy Reporter Donald Turvill in The Edinburgh Reporter.
⮑ There’s plenty more on the ongoing row in this week’s edi.bike newsletter.
🚔 A 37-year-old man appeared in court yesterday charged with assault after a video of a violent attack on a cyclist in the Cowgate was shared on social media. - BBC Scotland News.
🚨 A driver was taken to hospital after car ended up on its roof on Saughton Road at around 4.30pm yesterday. - Lee Dalgetty, Edinburgh Live.
📚 A temporary library is to be set up outside Davidson’s Mains Primary School while Blackhall Library remains closed over concerns about crumbling concrete. - Donald Turvill, Local Democracy Reporter, STV News.
📸 Read the story behind today’s cover image on Tom Duffin’s page here.
💰 Climate justice campaigners staged a musical demonstration at the UK Government’s offices at Sibbald Walk. - North Edinburgh News.
🕺 An event called JimFest is being planned for Sunday afternoon at the Meadows Pavilion in memory of James Hunter Brown, known locally as ‘Organic Jim’. - Lee Dalgetty, Edinburgh Live.
🚎 Bus firm Ember has announced a new electric bus route between Aberdeen and Edinburgh, starting on 22 October. Stops on the £15.50 journey will include Forfar, Brechin, Dundee, Kinross, Rosyth and more. - Jamie Sinclair, The Press & Journal.
🛜 Tech events this week in town include Entrepreneurs Social Club, Fintech Summit, the Scottish Financial Technology Awards and the Scottish Notion Meetup. - More in this week’s Campfire newsletter.
🍻 Organisers of the Women in Beer festival say they are aiming to grow Edinburgh’s community of female brewers. - Laura Alderman, STV News.
⮑ There’s also a preview of the weekend’s Gravity Beer Festival at Summerhall in Beer Today.
🍸 A new bar called Manahatta aims to ‘bring a taste of the Big Apple to Edinburgh’ when it opens on Rose Street on 26 October, following a reported £2.45m investment. - Adam Robertson, The National.
⮑ The bar shared this video on Instagram.
🍩 Leith Walk’s Babyfaced Baker is opening a new shop in Portobello on Friday. - Instagram.
🍕 ‘Glasgow versus Edinburgh. Which city has the best pizza restaurants? We decide.’ - Gaby Soutar, The Scotsman.
🪑 Writer Sarah Wood Gonzalez has published her top seven favourite antique and vintage furniture stores in and around Edinburgh
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📌 “The Autumn edition of the Portobello Reporter is out, opening with a piece on October's Book Festival.” - Thanks as always to Tim, Porty resident & Minute Fan, for sharing this.
📌 “Come to a free neuroscience-themed walking tour around the University of Edinburgh to discover the secrets of maintaining a sharp mind 🧠. Taking place on Saturday the 28th of September at 10:30am, Jana, a Psychology student at the University of Edinburgh, will take you around the historic university and show you the many connections this place has to the inner workings of your brain. The tour is suitable for adults, as well as families with children aged 10+, so come and enjoy a nice walk on Saturday!” - Thanks to Jana Tomastikova for sharing this.
📌 “Donald Smith introduces the theme and stories of chivalry. What was the reality in Scotland, and how did the Crusades figure in ‘knightly values’ in Edinburgh and Scotland? Was anyone chivalrous?” - Thanks to the Corstorphine Trust for sharing this.
📌 “Leith-based transformation & change coach Caitlin McDonald is fundraising for the MicroLoan Foundation in this year's Coachathon by offering coaching sessions for a £50 donation directly to the Foundation. Request a session via the booking link on the Coachathon page - make your donation by 9 October to secure a coaching session and support women to overcome poverty in sub-Saharan Africa!” - Thanks to Caitlin McDonald, International Coaching Federation member, for sharing this.
📌 “Northern Home is a free to enter photographic exhibition featuring ultra high resolution panoramas captured from around the highlands. Each photograph has been chosen because it represents a key moment in my own mental health journey and together tells my story of healing. Come along to learn about the Highlands and how you can go to the beautiful places we are lucky enough to call home.” - Thanks to Mark Piasecki, North Hold, for sharing this.
📌 “Readers: Friday & Saturday is the Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival at Holy Corner. Panel content includes the Women's Prize Discoveries, indie publishing, regency romance, Scottish witch trials, modern families, happily-ever-afters, cosy fantasy, and bringing women to the centre of historical fiction. Writers: workshops include hooks, lines, & pitches, writing with folklore & fairy tales, and writing commercial fiction (all writers very welcome!). Come meet your new favourite authors and enjoy buzzy Bruntsfield!” - Thanks to the organisers for sharing this.
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Very important EDIT: Added the weather emoji before 'Good morning Edinburgh' to reflect today's forecast: ️🌦️
STV appear to have failed to say what venue(s) is/are hosting Women in Beer.