Community news: Event serves up breakfast and advice

The benefits of social media to businesses will be the subject of a networking event in the Capital.

In partnership with the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, Stevenson College and Edinburgh Telford College, Jewel and Esk College is hosting a business breakfast on September 8.

The event will focus on how social networking sites can be used in business and how to get the best out of them.

Art lecturer hopes to make a big impression

A FREE lecture discussing the inspiration behind some of the greatest works of impressionist art is to be held in the Capital

Sun and Shade: The Impressionist Garden will see Dr Clare Willsdon, reader in history of art, University of Glasgow, and co-curator of the Impressionist Gardens exhibition, investigate the inspiration to the Impressionists of garden imagery.

The free lecture is being held on Tuesday, at 12.45pm, in the Hawthornden Lecture Theatre of the National Gallery Complex.

Painter hosts new display

AN exhibition of the work of city-based artist Derek McGuire opens in the Union Gallery next month.

The show, ELLA NOVO LOCO in reference to the "new place" the artist finds himself in, features more than 20 new paintings.

It opens on September 9 in the Broughton Street gallery.

Schools get puffin crossings

FOUR new puffin crossings are to be installed at Crewe Toll roundabout and Broughton Road near Broughton Primary School.

The city council has advertised the 36,000 contract for the works to be carried out later this year.

Tickets have gone on sale for a one-day horror film festival.

Horror film fans race for festival place

The programme for Dead by Dawn: Un-Halloween has yet to be announced, but fans of the annual festival are expected to snap up the limited tickets for the special event.

The one-day festival on October 9 was organised after it was decided not to hold the full event this year, to give organiser Adele Hartley a rest.

Those brave enough to go along are promised a full night of terrifying cinema.

Police on top of 999 calls

THE police call centre at Bilston Glen has continued to hit targets for answering 999 calls.

The centre answered 96 per cent of the 29,712 emergency calls within ten seconds between April and June.

A total of 98 per cent of non-emergency calls were answered within the 40-second target.