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Morrisons to offer online shopping
Morrisons, the UK’s fourth biggest supermarket chain, is to launch an online grocery service. Morrisons is currently the only one of the big four – Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s are the others – not to offer an online shopping option to their customers, but a deal with internet grocer Ocado will see it offer the new […]
Arts the way to do it
17/05/2013
North Edinburgh Theatre Project is preparing for a summer spectacular – and you can be part of it, as Stephanie Knight explains … This message is to everyone to remind you that as from tomorrow (Saturday 18 May) we shall be having workshops from 12 noon – 2pm as well as the Friday evening workshops from […]
Living in Harmony: making it happen
17/05/2013
National, citywide and local agencies, organisations and individuals joined together to find ways to fill the gaps when CORE (formerly the Black Community Development Project) was forced to close last year. That work continues, as Pilton Community Health Project’s Anita Aggarwal reports … You may be aware that since the closure of CORE last year a small […]
Read all about it – Pickles weighs in to support local newspapers
17/05/2013
Local newspapers received support from an unlikely source yesterday – no less a formidable figure than Westminster heavyweight Eric Pickles! Read on … Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is throwing his support behind Local Newspaper Week with a new law that will enshrine free press and help independent local newspapers thrive. In a letter to the […]
Housing Minister welcomes Varcity North tenants
17/05/2013
Housing Minister Margaret Burgess welcomed new tenants to the first completed phase of Miller Homes’ Varcity North development in North Edinburgh yesterday. In total, 89 new apartments, consisting of one, two and three bedrooms, will be available at mid-market rental rates at the development. In 2011, Miller Homes, the City of Edinburgh Council and Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) […]
Concern over RBS job losses
17/05/2013
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to cut a further 1,400 jobs from its retail banking head office over the next two years, it announced yesterday. The Bank said that up to half of the losses will be at the bank’s offices in Edinburgh, where the ‘back room’ jobs under threat include marketing, communications and […]
Centipede jumps for joy following grant news
16/05/2013
Go For It, Centipede! Funding boost for Muirhouse Project Muirhouse Centipede Project has received a grant of £60,000 from the Church of Scotland to build on it’s successes over the last year. The local project’s founder Linda Dunbar takes up the story: The Centipede project has received the great news that we have been awarded […]
Local BBs beat retreat
16/05/2013
Sixty young people from The Boys’ Brigade (BB) took part in the annual Beating Retreat ceremony at Edinburgh Castle last Saturday (11 May). The event, now in it’s 56th year, featured the pipes and drums, bugles and trumpets of The Edinburgh, Leith and District Battalion, The Central Band of the Boys’ Brigade, 3rd Johnstone Flute […]
TPAS award for Port of Leith Housing
16/05/2013
Port of Leith Housing Association (PoLHA) is celebrating after becoming the first community-based housing associaiton in Edinburgh to achieve TPAS accreditation – marking it as one of the most innovative and tenant focused organisations in the country. TPAS Accreditation is awarded by the Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS) to social landlords that go the extra […]
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