Below are reports of past events. Click on the titles to read the full story
The Edinburgh weather was kind for the inaugural Farmers’ Market in Juniper Green on Saturday 25th September. Piper Christopher Grieve announced the market’s arrival with a selection of Scottish tunes. Eight stallholders brought a range of food including game, vegetables, bread, pies, cakes and meat. There were traders selling soap products and wooden items too. The Kinleith Arms proprietor Gillian McIntee served coffee and rolls to some of the market...
Found on the scene of the crime: broken glass, bottles, cans, paper, plastic bags, parking cones, sweet wrappers, three shoes (two matching), a kitchen waste bin, an iron hoop off a barrel, a football, cigarette butts and polystyrene food containers. Picking over the crime scene and gathering evidence with the meticulousness of seasoned detectives: pupils from Juniper Green Primary School with their parents, Juniper Green and Baberton Mains residents and members of Juniper Green...
Echoes of 1880 when Gladstone spoke in Juniper Green Parish Church to 1,000 people were evoked on 28th April at the hustings organised jointly by Balerno, Currie and Juniper Green Community Councils. Gladstone’s audience was accommodated by removing all the furniture and allowing standing room only. 130 years later the church was packed again, and, with everyone seated this time, well over 400 local electors attended to listen to the Edinburgh South West candidates...
Now the soil’s warming up after our long hard winter, something new has cropped up by the Tennis Courts in Juniper Green! This huge green rough hewn rock looks as though it’s been there for ever but it was only set in its place on March 3rd This was an achievement in itself owing to the then snow-bound conditions at the stone carver’s workshop!
The beautiful images on it, which were under wraps till the following Sunday, were designed by local ceramic artist...