Corstorphine News

by John Barrettformer local Member of Parliament and Councillor

Founded in 1880, the Corstorphine Literary and Geographical Society (familiarly known as The Lit) was strongly supported by the Corstorphine community for many years, with good turnouts to their weekly meetings to hear illustrated talks on a wide variety of subjects. It now needs new people to volunteer to get involved and to help run it.

If you can help, or would like more information, please give me a ring on 0780 1057 446. I suggested that weekly meetings were too much for many people and that they should change to a monthly format on the first Monday of each month . This is being tried from March to June and hopefully by then some volunteers will have stepped forward. The opening meeting is in St. Ninian’s Church at 7.45pm on 6th March and is a talk about my life after stepping down as an MP. (well, I did offer to help!) The following monthly meetings will be on Historic Corstorphine, The Corstorphine Witch Hunt and a musical evening by the Corstorphine Singers in June. A £3 voluntary donation on the night will help cover any costs. All welcome. There will also be a Council by-election in the Corstorphine/Murrayfield Ward on 9th March. To avoid a low turnout of voters in the local by-election, hopefully, all candidates will engage with the public between now and then and a strong local champion will be elected. It is important to elect people, regardless of party, who will be an effective representative of the local community.

The late Donald Gorrie, who was a local champion, would have been 90 this year. He was a long term Corstorphine Councillor and my predecessor as Member of Parliament in Edinburgh West

There will be a dinner on 14th April in Corstorphine to celebrate Donald ’s life and work and I was delighted to be asked to speak at it along with the current Lord Provost, MP and MSP. Anyone wishing to find out more about the event should email Devin Scobie at devinscobie@hotmail.com

John Barrett

Cleland Roofing Solutions Ltd started up at an office right next to Turnhouse Golf Club. We have 4 vans with 4 squads working covering all of Scotland. All carry out all roofing works and roughcasting which include:

SLATING AND TILING

BUILT UP FELT SYTEMS

GUTTER REPAIR AND RENEWAL

VELUX SUPPLIED AND FITTED

ALL LEAD WORKS

RENDER AND HARLING

MEWP WORKS

ROPE WORKS

All the tradesmen are City and Guilds qualified. We have IPAF and PASMA certificates.

We are members of Safe Contractors, Confederation of Roofing Contractors and Federation of Small Business. (SeeBelow) Fully insured for all working at height, gas and rope works.

Head Office: 6A Lothian Street, Bonnyrigg, EH19 3AD Office: 146/2 Turnhouse Road Edinburgh EH12 0AD 07738 659 959 or 0131 364 4212

George@clelandroofingsolutions.co.uk www.clelandroofingsolutions.co.uk

George Cleland -Managing Director

We have over 100 years combined experience in the trade

Serves 4

Preparation time 10 minutes

Cooking time 15-25 minutes

Ingredients

• 400g firm tofu

• 1 tbsp vegetable oil

• Toasted sesame seeds and sliced spring onions, for sprinkling

For the sauce

• 100g soft light brown sugar

• 3 tbsp water

• 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar

• 3 tbsp soy sauce

• 1 glove garlic, crushed

• 1cm piece fresh root ginger, peeled and grated

• 1 whole star anise

• 1-2 tsp hot sauce, such as Sriracha