Topic: Sport

Concern grew last month over the future of Inch Park, home to many local sports clubs.

Fernieside hope that on-form striker Robert Thorburn can provide the inspiration to improve the side's league position in the new year.

 

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.

The conditions at Saughton Enclosure for Fernieside Amateur’s last game of the campaign were horrendous, with gale force wind and rain preventing them and Edinburgh Rose from serving up a memorable game to close the season.

As a grieving Gilmerton public comes to terms with the loss of local lad Alex Scougall, the young man’s father has spoken to the Echo about his “likeable, happy-go-lucky son”.

Gilmerton Community Centre has two very good quality bowling mats 45 inches x 6 feet plus a double mat handling unit (cost £2000.00 will accept £800 ono).

Fernieside Park is getting a new changing pavilion as part of the Council's plans to improve communial sports facilities in the city.  The existing building will be demolished when the new pavilion is complete.