The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Weekend edition 19 - 21 July 2024
Cowgate traffic plan, city centre police chase, food fest opens, Leith company's £100m valuation + cathedral candlelight concerts in your weekend guide
🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. Here’s Friday’s Edinburgh Minute, followed by the weekend guide for paid-subscribers.
🚦 Plans to reduce motor traffic on city centre streets could be introduced in a newly proposed phased approach, including making the Cowgate a one-way street, reports Sarah McArthur for Edinburgh Inquirer.
🎬 The filming of ‘an Indian romantic comedy’ will see road closures at the Lawnmarket and High Street this weekend. - Kevin Quinn, Evening News.
🚉 The council is losing another senior officer in the transport team as Hannah Ross, Head of Major Projects and Commissioning, joined Scottish Rail Holdings. - Phyllis Stephen, The Edinburgh Reporter.
🚨 A teenager has been charged after allegedly leading police on a chase in a stolen Range Rover and hitting a woman on Princes Street on Wednesday. Police said: “A 17-year-old male was arrested on Market Street by officers following a short foot chase.” - Matthew Fulton, STV News.
🚔 Police released this statement.
🥃 The Leith-based Artisanal Spirits Company has seen the value of its cask inventory rise by £76m to more than £100m. - Karen Peattie, The Herald.
🚢 Michelin-star chef Conor Toomey, formerly of Condita restaurant, will offer a new menu on the Fingal floating hotel in Leith next month. - Sarah Campbell, The Herald.
✈️ US airline JetBlue has been announced as a sponsor of this year’s Fringe Festival.
🎭 If wordplay is your thing, you might enjoy this list from Chortle of ‘Edinburgh Fringe: 10 punbelievably good show titles’.
⮑ Speaking of puns, David Hepburn writes in The Scotsman: “Edinburgh’s Bonhams Auction House should perhaps be renamed ‘Bone-hams’ next week, as the art experts put 261 dog-centric lots under the hammer.”
⚽️ Manchester United and Rangers will face-off for the first time in over a decade at Murrayfield at 4pm on Saturday. - Lothian Buses shared this transport update.
🌯 The city’s only free-to-enter food festival returns to Assembly George Square Gardens this weekend, from Friday 19 July through to Sunday 28 July. - Gary Flockhart previews the stallholders in the Evening News.
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📌 “Join Kornelia, from Hastate Design, and Neil, the head gardener at the Greywalls Hotel Gardens, for a garden design masterclass. During this workshop you will be introduced to the fundamentals of garden design, with the focus on the right plant selection for your garden.” - Thanks to Kornelia, Founder, Hastate Design, for sharing this.
📌 "Come and join the Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society team on a dig at Cammo Estate, an area packed full of archaeology and hidden stories just waiting to be uncovered – by you! Their first 2024 Open Day will take place on Saturday 20 July with John Lawson, Curator of Archaeology for Edinburgh City Council, and will include guided walks of the different areas of excavation, a chance to take part in the excavation, and the opportunity to see some of the ‘finds’ as well as historic information about the estate.” - More details from the dig team are here.