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SW20, South West Edinburgh 20 Minute Neighbourhoods, is a group of local people in Currie, Dreghorn/Oxgangs and Colinton who exchange ideas about how they can make their community better. As residents, parents and professionals from a wide range of backgrounds, they share an interest in aspiring to ‘live well locally’.

2 July 1930—12 June 2024

Eric Robinson was born in Hanley, Stoke on Trent, on 2 July 1930 to Carrie and Leslie Robinson. Music played a significant part in Eric’s life, right from the start. His father Leslie was a violinist who played in various amateur and semi-professional groups, as well as being an accomplished cinema musician accompanying the silent films around Stoke. 

In the General Election, Edinburgh North & Leith constituency, 78,411 people were registered to vote. There was a 63% turnout (13.6% down on 2019). This compares with a 64.09% turnout across Edinburgh as a whole. 

The votes were diivided as follows:

Tracy Gilbert (Scottish Labour Party), pictured: votes, 20,805 (42.1%); shift, +20.4.

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Summer's arrived on Fantasy Island … and for the first time the place is not looking entirely bleak. Can't actually smell the flowers for the traffic fumes but still, an improvement.

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Polling stations will open tomorrow (4 July) at 7am and close at 10pm.

Remember to take with you a form of photographic identification. Acceptable forms of photo ID include: UK passport, UK driving licence, Blue Badge, Older Person’s Bus Pass, Disabled Person’s Bus Pass, and an identity card bearing the Proof of Age Standards Scheme hologram (a PASS card). For a full list, visit here. 

An indoor entanglement. 

No. 37 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.

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