The Edinburgh Reporter May 2024

EDINBURGH’S FREE LOCAL NEWSPAPER...A CAPITAL READ FROM START TO FINISH May 2024 Alan Simpson McVey mauling Shaggy dog tail Fette ...

2 NEWS Editorial About us... Our news relates to Edinburgh and the immediate area. If you would like to submit an article or pho ...

3 Edinburgh’s bloomin’ lovely By PHYLLIS STEPHEN FOUNDER OF EDINBURGH based charity Invisible Cities, Zakia Moulaoui, joined a r ...

4 Is it Leith no more? By PHYLLIS STEPHEN AND STEPHEN RAFFERTY THE FIRST SNP COUNCILLOR to lead The City of Edinburgh Council ha ...

55 Celebrating the 900 Value of NHS should not be underestimated Council needs to care for its tourist industry By OLIVIA THOMAS ...

By PHYLLIS STEPHEN RESIDENTS IN GREENDYKES are calling on the UK Government to help as their heating costs have gone up by 500%. ...

77 By STAFF REPORTER THE DEPARTMENT STORE on Princes Street which used to be British Home Stores for so many years is now home t ...

By PHYLLIS STEPHEN PROFESSOR SIR GEOFF PALMER, OBE, has received the highest Scottish royal honour, the Order of the Thistle, wh ...

99 By PHYLLIS STEPHEN OWNERS OF A YOUNG SAMOYED DOG have praised the Edinburgh veterinary team which saved her life. Just months ...

1ST In 1589, the King (James VI) and the Queen (Anne of Denmark) landed at Leith. In 1612, the council instructed the treasurer ...

11 Debbie Anderson invites you to take yourself back to your childhood with traditional jars of sweets in her shop. Chewits and ...

1212 FEATURE I t had been over 20 years in the planning but when the Fettes Avenue headquarters of Edinburgh City Police opened ...

1313 formed and Fettes lost its headquarters function. Gradually, many of the support functions moved out, leaving the building ...

14 BUSINESS Picardy possibilities By PHYLLIS STEPHEN THE NEWEST RESTAURANT in the New Town, is Under the Table opened by chef Se ...

1515 Jupiter Artland opens for the summer Hidden Door celebrates 10th birthday By STAFF REPORTER JUPITER ARTLAND AT BONNINGTON H ...

16 FOOD AND DRINK SUMMERHALL has, since 2011, established itself as one of Edinburgh’s leading cultural venues. For its Director ...

OVER THE YEARS I’ve entered the odd food or cooking competition including MasterChef, but that was more than 20 years ago, when ...

18 THEATRE There are show-stoppers and then there are show stops - let’s hope for the former this May as Elaine C Smith transfor ...

19 In the same week, the Festival Theatre welcomes Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures Company back with their fast-selling producti ...

20 Edinburgh City 2008s on the Scottish Cup trail Emma will recruit junior cricketers [email protected] EDINBURGH CITY u ...