Pupils at Edinburgh state schools return for the Spring Term today.

Edinburgh state schools break for Christmas today.

Free, informal event to discuss next September's Independence referendum. Music, poetry, refreshments, elastoplast.

Ian Gardiner will talk tonight on 'The Falklands War from the Perspective of 45 Commando'.

The Broughton Project Group are holding a tidyup of Barony Community Garden. Refreshments available. Bring your own gardening kit if you have it, and dress for the weather.

Scotland's finest LGBT performers celebrate and toast the LGBT community: Sandra Macbeth, Edinburgh Gay Men's Chorus, Loud & Proud Choir, Gale Force Wind. Café + cold refreshments and cake as part of ticket: £5 waged, £2.50 unwaged. Booking essential via admin@lgbthealth.org.uk or Tel. 523 1100.

Rummage for treasures – small furniture, music, books, bric-a-brac, fleas. Free entry. Harder to get rid of.

Brunch and live music event at the Drull Hall Arts Café. Free entry. All the jazz you can eat.

Photographer Ian Preece's free exhibition features a series of images taken during his extensive travels through the Himalayas and Rajasthan.

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