April 2018 News

The driving force behind a life-saving project to install public access defibrillators in Edinburgh has been invited to the Royal Wedding.

The new Pennywell All Care Centre was officially opened today. Staff and guests welcomed Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport, Shona Robison, for the formal ribbon cutting ceremony.

Final designs for the road layout and kerb lines on Picardy Place have now been agreed by the Council following further discussions with cycling and pedestrian organisations and the local community.

Pupils will begin their summer term at Oxgangs Primary School as normal tomorrow (17 April).

Events aimed at encouraging more and more people to walk and cycle are to be held in each of the four Edinburgh localities for the first time this year as part of a calendar of active travel events.

Marking the centenary year of the first women receiving the right to vote in the UK, a new exhibition is to open at The Museum of Edinburgh charting the significant role the women of Edinburgh played.

Ties of friendship between the Chinese city of Fuzhou and Edinburgh in Scotland were strengthened this week as a letter of intent between the two Capitals was signed on Thursday (12 April).

On her 100th birthday, Edinburgh volunteer Doris Keir shows no signs of slowing down.

Following proactive inspections by the Council of recent repairs carried out by the Edinburgh Schools Partnership (ESP), further work is to be carried out immediately on Oxgangs Primary School.

A major £1.5 million resurfacing project will be carried out on one of Edinburgh's main arterial routes this spring.