Vicky Allan
Features Writer at The Herald (Scotland)
Creature from the deep (she/her) and the shallows. Herald environment journo and author. Books: Wild swimming and (latest) histfic Murray Hall
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heraldscotland.com | Vicky Allan
Herald writer and wild swimmer Vicky Allanat Portobello beach. STY VAPic Gordon Terris/Herald&Times22/5/25 (Image: Herald&Times_GordonTerris) The bathing season started well this year in the waters at Portobello beach. The warmest and driest UK spring for 50 years meant that, according to the first testing for Escherichia coli and Intestinal Enterococci, the two bacteria that indicate human excrement, the levels were reassuringly low.
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heraldscotland.com | Vicky Allan
Vicky Allan on Edinburgh city cycle lane (Image: Gordon Terris) There are many ways of avoiding cycling through the middle of Edinburgh and I’ve tried a few of them. One is to walk; another is to take a tram; or a bus. There’s also driving or, my favourite, cycling the longest route to your destination via a leafy ex-railway cycle path. I'll admit it, I'm scared of cycling through the city centre.
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heraldscotland.com | Vicky Allan
Councillor Stephen Jenkinson tries out a Lime bike (Image: City of Edinburgh Council) The memories of Edinburgh’s Just Eat bikes – stolen, vandalised, burned, balanced on top of a bus stop, dumped in the river – haven’t quite faded. But, four years after that scheme ended, the city is planning to try a new one, and the question is, Has it learned enough to make this work?
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heraldscotland.com | Vicky Allan
Analyst Martin Lellep has studied bus frequencies in Edinburgh (Image: Gordon Terris) The buses in Edinburgh are "slow", or at least slower than they could be, and that, says a data analyst, is because there are so many stops. Martin Lellep, an analyst from Germany who lives now in Edinburgh, wrote a blog on the subject in which he asked, “Why does a 3-mile journey from Leith to Morningside in Edinburgh take almost an hour by bus?” His conclusion?
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heraldscotland.com | Vicky Allan
2 1/1 This article appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. An article in the Guardian, based on a recent report, caught my eye this week. The carbon footprint, it said, of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza will be greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of a hundred individual countries.
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RT @donaldturvill: 🚲And another great first-person transport piece from @vicky_allan: Is Edinburgh city centre safe to cycle? I (nervously)…
The great thing about journalism is sometimes you do a piece that might change you. I'm not much of a cyclist and wouldn't cycle in Edinburgh city centre because I was scared. Here's what happened when I did...🚲 For the @heraldscotland Edinburgh series https://t.co/UfGRXCYP4o
Loved getting together with the @heraldscotland team to make this video And isn't Edinburgh looking just gorgeous!
Much fun with the @heraldscotland team making this video... @HannahMargBrown @donaldturvill @stell_garrett @brianjaffa @vicky_allan
