Category: South Edinburgh Echo

Fernieside FC Amateur presentation night took place earlier this summer and recognised the efforts of the team after a difficult season.  The past season has been a rollercoaster for Fernie, with more lows than highs.

Local Chinese young people hope Olympics will help dispel misconceptions of their home country.  All eyes will be on China this month, as the 25th Olympic Games begins in Beijing.

People in Burdiehouse and Southhouse breathed a collective sigh of relief  recently as construction work finally began on their new Community Education Centre.

Liberton Primary School's nursery children were among many local groups to participate recently in the Barnardo's Big Toddle.  The nationwide event raises money each year for disadvantaged children, last year generating £1.5million.

Having moved to South Edinburgh 1985 and started life in the area as the parent of pupils who attended Liberton Primary School, Marilyn Taylor – who, having gained a teaching qualification, hadn't worked in education for 17 years – never thought that in summer 2008 she would retire having spent 20 years employed at the Gilmerton Road school.

Edinburgh South Colts narrowly failed to cause an upset in the final of South East Region Youth Football's under-15 Treasurer's Cup, taking their higher division opponents Leith Athletic 93 all the way in a free-scoring match.

Inch Colts' under-19 side swept to a cup double last month by winning both the Bob Bankier Cup and the League Cup.

Its vision is to develop leadership and skills for life, to provide a stepping stone to employment, encourage volunteering, reduce youth crime and to support healthier communities.  But young people in South Edinburgh actually enjoy it!

A local nursery has benefited from the generosity of the Alnwickhill-based Territorial Army.  A number of TA soldiers paid a visit to Mother Goose Nursery, Howdenhall Road, to construct a camouflaged hideaway after youngsters using the childcare facility had attempted to assemble something similar.

A Fernieside couple has made a generous donation to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children after devising an innovative fundraising scheme. Tommy and Jeanette Simpson, of Ferniehill Road, raised money over the Christmas period through a wishing well in their front garden, into which passers-by would drop money. A spectacular festive lighting display on and around their house helped to attract donations from generous local people.