Witness appeal

Lothian and Borders Police are appealing for witnesses following an alleged assault in a nightclub in Edinburgh in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A 19-year-old man suffered a broken jaw in the incident in the Liquid Rooms, in Victoria Street, between 1-1.15am.
A 20-year-old man has been arrested and charged in [...]

Women encouraged into technology

Some of Scotland’s biggest businesses will, on Tuesday 7th September, launch a group to encourage more women to take a leading role in the technology sector where women account for just one in five of the workforce.
Businesses, including Cisco, Dell, IBM, HP, Scottish Enterprise and Oracle, will launch the Scotland Women in [...]

Duathlon won by locals

The City of Edinburgh got what it hoped for this weekend when home-town girl, Catriona Morrison, stormed to victory at the 2010 GE Edinburgh ITU Duathlon World Championships. The senior men’s race was dominated by the Belgians, who finished 1-2-3 with Bart Aernouts claiming the gold.
Gwen Jorgensen (USA) made the early running in the elite [...]

What’s on this week? – 6th September

Undergraduate open day at Edinburgh University on 6th and 26th September. Now that it is set to become more difficult to get a university place be sure to get along and find out all you can in advance of choosing where you might want to go.
Thrive for Business have a business [...]

GE Edinburgh ITU Duathlon this weekend

The 2010 GE Edinburgh ITU Duathlon World Championships are set to take place this weekend. World titles will be contested at Edinburgh’s iconic, and very hilly, Holyrood Park – one of the most challenging courses ever used for an ITU Duathlon World Championships, as confirmed by those athletes already at the race site.
The Edinburgh crowd [...]

Doors Open across Scotland

Every weekend in September, buildings across Scotland open up their doors to the public for free, coordinated nationally by the Scottish Civic Trust with support from Historic Scotland.  Civic societies, local authorities, heritage and building preservation trusts act as area coordinators, and are supported by many thousands of volunteers.
Sites include private homes, never normally open [...]

Edinburgh is the UK’s favourite city!

Edinburgh has been voted favourite UK city in the prestigious Conde Nast Readers’ Travel Awards 2010.
Edinburgh scooped the top spot with high scores across the board particularly for aesthetics/architecture (93.72) and user-friendliness (90.46).
Edinburgh came second in the same awards in 2009 with a total score of 90.88 and this year [...]

St Columba’s Fun Run

This takes place on Sunday 26th September at Victoria Park from 10.30a.m. You don’t need to be a complete marathon expert to take part. There is a child’s race over 1k and adults can run, walk hop skip or jump either 2.5k or 5k.
Fancy dress is optional..the only thing you really have to do is [...]

Pope’s visit to Scotland

The Leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith Patrick O’Brien, is today
launching the St Ninian’s Day Parade – a ‘grand Scottish spectacle’ to
welcome Pope Benedict XVI to this country next month, while also raising money for good
causes at home and abroad. To launch the event, the Cardinal will be joined by the
Minister [...]

JK Rowling – philanthropist extraordinaire

The Edinburgh author JK Rowling has donated £10million to Edinburgh University to establish a research centre in the name of her late mother Anne.
The University announces the news here.
The author resigned as patron of the MS Society Scotland in 2009 following a conflict with the charity’s London management and vowed at the time to donate [...]

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