The Edinburgh Report

Cammy Day Council Leader Edinburgh on Visitor Levy

A paper has been published ahead of a council meeting next week which outlines how the council will collect and spend the visitor levy. The Scottish Government passed the necessary legislation earlier this year.

Jyll Bradley artist

We explore the new sculpture at Fruitmarket - Pardes by Jyll Bradley --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message

Cllr Ellie Bird speaks about the Scottish Youth Parliament elections

Cllr Bird is the Young People’s Champion and very much involved with the Scottish Youth Parliament and the elections which begin on 8 November 2021 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message

Speaking to Michael Jenkins of Forest Trends

Michael Jenkins President of Forest Trends on the COP26 announcement of $20 billion on deforestation and land degradation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message

Meeting people on a Pilgrimage for COP26

A walk is taking place from Dunbar to Glasgow in time for COP26. We joined the walk just after it left the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and went with them as far as Granton Castle Walled Garden where the Keeper of the Soil, artist Natalie Taylor, collected a small sample of soil in her hand made cape with its special pockets. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message

Speaking with Ali Pretty of Kinetika about the Beach of Dreams flags

Ali Pretty describes herself as an artist activist and has just joined the Pilgrimage to COP26 in Edinburgh with 500 flags made as part of the Beach of Dreams project. The flags will be displayed at St Mary’s Cathedral in Palmerston Place and will then be carried to Glasgow from Monday morning. Each flag represents a mile of coastline from Lowestoft to Tilbury chosen by one person to explore how we are looking after the coastline the community and ourselves. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message

A cycle with Daniel Johnson MSP

The Edinburgh Reporter invited Daniel Johnson MSP for a cycle and a chat about his role in the opposition and also a bit about his constituency of Edinburgh Southern. Despite the rain the chat is sparkling! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message

Council moving BioQuarter forward

The council is moving forward with development at BioQuarter with a move to appoint a commercial partner to assist in the next steps. Here we talk to the Council Leader about BioQuarter --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message

Meeting Jaxx Waygood a visual artist working with metal

Jaxx Waygood is a visual artist and his artistic and sculptural blacksmithing exhibition is on at the Art & Craft Collective 93 Causewayside in Edinburgh. He is a recent Edinburgh College of Art graduate on the MA programme but has a lot of different past experiences which we talk to him about here - including working on the Lord of the Rings TV series --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message

Fire at Earth in Common

Charity Earth in Common has its base at Leith Croft. On Sunday morning they discovered that a fire had destroyed their shed causing about £2,000 of damage. CEO and founder Evie Murray explained to us what had happened. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message