Local Round-up: Primary set to celebrate 50th birthday

A PRIMARY school is celebrating its 50th year in its current location.

The current Parsons Green school on Meadowfield Drive was opened on March 28, 1961 after fire gutted the former building at Lillyhill Terrace in 1958.

The school is putting on an exhibition on Saturday morning with a display of memorabilia, and a 1960s-style tea room service will be provided.

For more information or to donate memorabilia, contact 0131-661 4459.

Animal shelter plans fun day

There will be a fun day at the Paws Here animal shelter in Comiston Road on Sunday. The event will feature face-painting, arts and crafts, a raffle and Easter egg hunt. Visitors will also have the chance to meet and feed some of the animals currently living at the shelter. Entry is free.

New life on menu for Royal Mile restaurant

A ROYAL Mile restaurant that has been closed for nearly a year is set to be reopened after being snapped up by the owner of an Indian restaurant in Portobello.

Jackson's Restaurant is to be occupied by the owner of Bonoful.

The restaurant closed in April last year. Barry McNeil, from selling agent Christie & Co, said: "Given that we were allowed to market the business openly, we generated enormous interest. In a six-week period we generated in excess of 20 viewings."

Quake aid recipe book launch

A RECIPE book created to raise money for victims of the Japanese earthquake will be launched at the Acorn Centre YMCA in Junction Place on Friday.

The launch, at 5pm, will include tastings of food from the book and performances of Japanese harp and African drum.

Orchestra to play city show

THE Edinburgh Youth Orchestra will perform a concert in the city next month, featuring a programme of music by Berlioz, Bartk and Shostakovich.

The orchestra will bring together more than 100 young musicians from across Scotland at the Usher Hall on April 17.

Artists have write stuff for collaboration

THE launch of Two in the Bush is to take place in the city tomorrow.

Two in the Bush is a full-colour book of the correspondences that occur when 27 writers studying creative writing at Edinburgh University and 27 illustrators studying at the Edinburgh College of Art swap work in order to inspire each other.

The free event is set to take place at the Forest Cafe on Bristo Place, and will run from 7.30pm to 11pm.