Open day on Saturday 29th September - come down and enjoy the allotment, as well as a variety of workshops including composting and feltmaking.

TWENTY-TWO schools are to be closed across the city in the biggest programme of its kind seen in Edinburgh.

The Friends of Hermitage of Braid and Blackford Hill would like to invite the public to join them on a Rights of Way Walk.

I’m writing my final entry in the Echo from a new desk, as I, like so many others featured in this paper, have taken that big step and set themselves up in a business of my own.

Are you interested in different countries and cultures?  Would you like to share the life-changing experiences of a young person?

Stacy Schumacher was recently appointed as the park’s new countryside ranger and would like to hear from people interested in becoming part of a new Friends of Craigmillar Castle Park group.

South Edinburgh Community Learning & Development Partnership will be launching the Community Learning & Development Plan.  A number of local people will receive their Learner Awards.

The last eighteen months have proven to be professionally quiet for Gilmerton boxer Gary Young.

The Hermitage Golf Club will hold week-long children’s summer camps starting on Monday, July 9, as well as adult classes on Sunday afternoons 2pm-4pm where players of all levels are welcome.

Inch Colts Football Team celebrated the end of another season with an awards ceremony for the whole club in the middle of June.