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Friends of Craighouse

Love Stories

Parcel pains

#GE2015

Today at Edinburgh International Science Festival 

The former Edinburgh Napier University building at Craighouse has already been sold. The planning process is underway, but the Friends of Craighouse have not yet given up hope that they can have the planning decision reviewed in a judicial review. They now have a fighting fund of over £6,000 and they are asking for further donations so that they can proceed.

More information on their website here.

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Indulge us. In the wake of Andy Murray’s wedding to his teenage sweetheart yesterday you may be thinking about love and marriage. And it is Sunday. So here is something to make you stop and think.

“I am still regularly astonished by the beautiful love stories that spin out of our recording booth week after week….

Posted by TED on Saturday, 11 April 2015

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Our Mike Smith has just got married (well he’s two months in….). The new Mrs Smith bought some things online. Good news for someone who does not like going shopping (like Mr Smith). But then it got to delivery time and that was where the problems started.

“Now we may live in an age of instant communication with the aforementioned internet, mobile phones and ‘smart’ technology. We can transfer money between bank accounts in seconds and instantly converse with someone on the other side of the world through wonderful inventions such as Skype. However, there remain tasks which have yet to catch up with technology – and arranging a parcel delivery where everything goes to plan appears to be one of them.”

Read more here.

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The Edinburgh Reporter’s current project is to interview the 33 Edinburgh candidates for the General Election.

So far not too many have contacted us or replied to our emails. But there are some who have and you can watch those videos here. (Or scroll right down to the bottom of the page and watch our Vimeo channel there) Others will be added just as soon as possible.

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There are many many things to see and do at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, but this evening there is a discussion event about cycling which has attracted our attention:

Journalist and author Max Glaskin presents an evening of science hacks for cyclists, exploring how and why a bicycle works whilst investigating topics such as: the enigma of the self-stable bikes; the make-up of metal; the secrets of slipstreaming; the dirt behind these ‘clean machines’ and the truth about hairy legs!

More details about the event and booking a ticket here.

 

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