The Tollcross Traders Association were co sponsors with the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce of the Schools and Community Murals competition at the recent Canal Festival. Have a look at our Gallery page to see all the entries. The resuilts will be announced later.

City woman has tails wagging with first organic

dog bakery

Jemma Wallace pictured with her dog Ruben.

Picture by Jane Barlow. Article by SUE GYFORD.

SOME people just can't help making a right dog's dinner of things. But for Jemma Wallace, it has all been deliberate - the entrepreneur is dishing up hand-made organic snacks from Edinburgh's first professional dog food bakery.

By day she publishes newsletters for the University of Edinburgh, but when she leaves the office she heads straight for her kitchen at the Scruffy Dug Co, rolls up her sleeves and follows some rather unusual recipes.

Pampered pooches can choose between two flavours of biscuit so far - peanut butter or cheese - with the range due to expand in future.

Ms Wallace, 28, started baking last summer after being inspired while on holiday in the US.

She said: "There's a company call the Three Dog Bakery over there who do this and I thought, 'That sounds mad'.

"Then I thought actually it was the kind of thing that might come over to the UK in a while so I thought I'd have a go at it and see how it went."

By SUE GYFORD

VISITORS to the historic Bruntsfield Short Hole Golf Club will soon be able to steer a safe course through to the 36th hole thanks to local traders.
For businesses have sponsored a new set of signs to be placed around the course guiding golfers from one hole to the next.

The scheme has been so popular that there are too many advertisers for the 36 holes, so tee markers will also be placed at various points around the course to show people where to start hard-to-find holes.They have been paid for by the Tollcross Traders' Association, which ordered one marker for each business which paid its annual membership fees on time. The signs will be on aluminium plates sunk into the ground.

There are also signs advertising the Association and Club itself.

Tollcross Traders Association are happy with the outcome of a recent walkabout in the area with the Edinburgh Councils' Parking Operations Manager. They now have over 40 new pay and display parking spaces.

"Parking is always going to be an issue in a big busy city like Edinburgh so to get another 40 spaces for our customers is a big plus."

"Although the spaces are not free like most out of town shopping centres, at least customers can park safely knwing that their cars will not be subject to a fine or even getting them towed away."

So the message is - Tollcross is open for business.

The new pay & display parking spaces are located at:-

Wrights Houses (behind Barclay Church) - extended to accomodate 8 cars.
10 new spaces in Gilmore Place outside the shops at Lochrin buildings and another 10 west of Hailes Street outside the old TA building.
Gilmore Place nearer Viewforth has 10 new spaces.
Tarvit Street - extended to accomodate 9 cars
Lochrin Place at the Home Street end has now got 10 spaces that are shared use (both pay & display and permit holders).

Have a look at our PARKING GUIDE which gives you a better idea of their location and number of spaces in each street.