TV Preview: Downton Abbey | Parade’s End | Strictly Come Dancing
A lavish harlequinade of withering gazes, arched eyebrows and stoic suffering: yes, Downton Abbey is back.DOWNTON ABBEYSunday, STV, 9pmPARADE’S ENDFriday, BBC2, 9pmSTRICTLY COME DANCINGSaturday, BBC1,...
View ArticleMSP invites community groups to parliament
MIDLOTHIAN North and Musselburgh MSP Colin Beattie has hosted an event for three community organisations from his constituency at the Scottish Parliament.Mr Beattie invited Irene Hogg and Paula...
View ArticleJob chance for music students
TALENTED musicians from Stevenson College Edinburgh are being given an opportunity to secure employment in the music industry while they complete their studies.The college has teamed up with national...
View ArticleCall to keep rail line public
EDINBURGH North and Leith MP Mark Lazarowicz has called for the East Coast Rail Line to be kept in public hands, as the consultation into its future closes.The Westminster government plans to sell off...
View ArticlePortobello High School ruling: Two sides to Porty politics
IT’S the issue which has divided the seaside town, but, asks Gina Davidson, do tensions over the new high school really run deep?DOWN a long hallway and in a comfortable kitchen with French windows...
View ArticleToddler consumes 15 times safe limit of tranquilliser
A TWO-YEAR-OLD’S life was put at risk after the child was allowed to consume more than 15 times the safe amount of a powerful tranquilliser.Danielle Murray, 20, admitted allowing the toddler access to...
View ArticleFortnightly collections row: ‘If this rubbish isn’t cleared we’ll dump it on...
FURIOUS residents, whose bins have gone unemptied for almost three weeks, have vowed to dump a carload of rubbish on the council’s own doorstep as complaints about collections mount across the...
View ArticleTories place trust in ‘free’ school plans for Castlebrae High
EDUCATION chiefs are being urged to keep a “failing” high school open and instead hand over control to a trust.The Conservatives are calling for Castlebrae Community High School, which has been...
View ArticleTransport chief chuffed with extra trains
East Lothian Council has welcomed the extra trains that the Government has announced will run between Edinburgh and Dunbar on Saturdays from mid-December.The additional train services in the county are...
View ArticleOwner’s heartbreak as dog killed in sewer fall horror
A HEARTBROKEN dog owner has told of his horror after watching his pet disappear down an uncovered sewer before being washed away.Paul Stewart, 46, had taken his 11-month-old cocker spaniel, Revel, for...
View ArticleNew pricing structure puts taxi fares up
TAXI passengers in West Lothian are to see their fares increase after a new pricing structure was agreed by the council.From October 22, the initial cost of booking a taxi will go up by 40p – to £2.60...
View ArticleGay marriage opponents ‘disenfranchised’
OPPONENTS of same-sex marriage are disenfranchised because all the mainstream parties are in favour of the policy, a churchman has claimed.The Rev David Robertson, director of the Solas Centre for...
View ArticleLeaders: ‘Sense of relief that deal has been agreed’
THERE are no surprises, pleasant or otherwise, in Health Minister Alex Neil’s announcement today that work will soon begin on the building of a new Sick Kids hospital.For months, only the ridiculously...
View ArticleLothian beaches make the grade in quality survey
NINE beaches stretching east from Portobello to Pease Bay in East Lothian have met the highest quality guidelines in the latest survey by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.The figures for the...
View Article‘90% of bin collections were on time’
RESPONDING to widespread complaints about late bin collections, the city’s environment convener Cllr Lesley Hinds, said: “This is one of the biggest changes to collections in recent years and obviously...
View ArticleAssisted suicide Bill backed to proceed, says Margo MacDonald
INDEPENDENT Lothians MSP Margo MacDonald today announced she had secured the necessary backing to go ahead with a new Bill to permit assisted suicide.And she claimed recent cases south of the border...
View ArticleFrank Boyle cartoon 19/09/2012
Today...Boyling PointFollow Frank Boyle on Twitter at {http://www.twitter.com/boylecartoon|@boylecartoon|Frank Boyle Twitter}.• Frank Boyle’s latest book Boyling Point 2 is available for £8.99 with...
View Article28 jobs to go as city Remploy site closes
THE UK Government was today accused of treating disabled workers with contempt after hopes of saving a Edinburgh factory were dashed.The Department of Work and Pensions announced the Remploy site in...
View ArticleDiscussion on NHS patient care pay-outs
A CONFERENCE to discuss the implications of handing NHS patients funding to pay for their own healthcare has taken place in the Capital.Healthcare professionals from across Scotland attended the event...
View ArticleSir Tom Farmer dives into salvage bid with Waterworld plea
SIR Tom Farmer today backed the campaign to save Leith Waterworld as councillors prepared to give the community bid a second chance.The KwikFit founder said closing the leisure pool at a time when the...
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