Local- Round-up: Voice support for Japan at karaoke night

THERE will be a charity karaoke night to raise funds for victims of the Japanese earthquake at SuperCube in George Street on April 14.

The charge for a private karaoke room will be dropped to 3.50 an hour, and the venue will double the amount raised in a donation to the Red Cross. There will also be a prize draw. The event runs from 5pm to 3am.

Organiser Justin Reynolds said: "If it was not for karaoke being invented in Japan then I would not have this venue."

Summit on farm disease

THE future of how to control foot and mouth outbreaks has been discussed at an Edinburgh summit.

The event at the Moredun Research Institute examined ways to limit the impact a spread would have on agriculture, while the role of vaccination in the plan was also talked about.

Student in healthcare marathon bid

A STUDENT from the Capital will run the Edinburgh Marathon to raise cash for a Ugandan health charity.

Doug Richards is fundraising for Global Health Network Uganda, which attempts to give a voice to those in sub-Saharan Africa facing problems in health-care provision, ahead of the event on May 22.

People wishing to sponsor Mr Richards can contact him at [email protected].

Strange approach to theatre

STRANGE Town theatre company is hosting a summer project to encourage children between the ages of eight and 14 to create a play in five days.

The project will be hosted by arts trust Out of the Blue at its Drill Hall building on Dalmeny Street, Leith, during July.

Couple's love story lands them wedding prize

A COUPLE have won their own "royal wedding" at Dalhousie Castle near Edinburgh after judges voted their love story the most romantic.

Geraldine Brown and Neil Rowatt, both 36 from Hamilton, won a wedding worth 5000 at the luxurious castle in a competition to find the most romantic love story.

The couple had been together for five years and engaged since 2009 but with two young children and financial constraints couldn't afford a wedding.

Poets' Gaelic celebration

Gaelic poets Rody Gorman and Aonghas MacNeacail will read from their work in bilingual format to mark the publication of the Irish-language issues of the Irish Pages tonight.

The event will take place at the Scottish Poetry Library in Crichton's Close, just off Canongate, from 6.30pm.