The Edinburgh Minute ⏰: Friday 30 June 2023
The Edinburgh Minute ⏰: Friday 30 June 2023
New community football centre, anger over travel blunder, Rankin's Cowgate mystery solved, Union Canal rowing returns + LeithLate festival weekender begins
☀️ Good morning Edinburgh. It’s a busy one. The weekend what’s on guide is below for paying subscribers. Meantime, here’s your Friday Edinburgh Minute.
🚶♂️ Mistakes in Edinburgh’s ‘Spaces for People’ active travel plans were discovered more than three months before local councillors were alerted, it has emerged. Errors in a planned consultation about making the schemes permanent cost taxpayers £20,000. Councillors are unhappy about the delay and say ‘serious questions’ need answered. - Donald Turvill, Local Democracy Reporter, Edinburgh Live.
👑 King Charles will be met by two separate protests - at St Giles’ Cathedral and the Meadows - when he visits Edinburgh next week. - Xander Elliards, The National.
⮑ The visit is coordinated down to the minute, ending with an RAF flypast. Timings are published on the government website.
🛫 The pick-up/drop-off area at Edinburgh Airport re-opens today after a £1.6m revamp. Prices are going up to £5 for 10 minutes. - Kevin Quinn, Evening News.
📚 Congrats to award-winning local poet and author Michael Pedersen, who’s been appointed as the newest Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh. - Lauren Brown, The Bookseller.
📉 The university has dropped seven places to 22nd in the world in a new global ranking. But it’s top for sustainability. - Mila Gresham, The Edinburgh Tab.
🍕 A Broomhouse social enterprise pizza shop that offers ‘Kids Go Free, no-questions-asked, free school holiday meals’ is seeking financial help. - Iona Young, Edinburgh Live.
🛠 Following successful hubs in Porty and Leith, Edinburgh Tool Library held an official opening party last night at a new hub in Colinton. The South West Edinburgh Tool Library allows members to collect and return tools. It’s a partnership with SW20 and CVE. - All the west library details are on a dedicated website here.
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👀 Crime writer Ian Rankin had another local mystery on his hands while in the Cowgate this week. Deep among many replies, local music manager Davie Miller had the answer:
📰 The summer issue of volunteer-led community news magazine C&B News, serving the upper Water of Leith valley, is now available. You can find it online here and in print from this weekend in selected outlets across Balerno, Currie, Juniper Green, Baberton Mains, and Colinton.
⮑ Editor Paul Fisher Cockburn writes: “This special July/August issue includes coverage of summer activities, interviews with notable local residents, and a tribute to the Colinton-based conservationist Duncan Campbell. Plus the latest news from local political representatives, Sports updates, and lots more.”
⚽️ Edinburgh is getting a new £1m community football centre. Work is due to begin in autumn on the Spartans Youth Workplace building at Ainsley Park in Pilton. - Project Scotland.
⚽️ Meadowbank-based League 1 side FC Edinburgh have changed their name back to Edinburgh City after less than a year. - Neil McGlade explains why in the Evening News.
🍷 The family behind award-winning Michelin-starred restaurant Timberyard is planning to open a new wine bar in Abbeyhill.
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