Edinburgh's Royal High School set to rise again as £35m art hotel

Jim Landis, who spoke at last year's Annual Dinner about plans for the old school building in Regent Road has told us about this article which appeared in the Scotsman.
For copyright reasons we can't reproduce the article, and so we can only refer you to the site http://www.scotsman.com/ and cover the main points here -

The former Royal High School building on Calton Hill in Edinburgh is to be redeveloped into an arts hotel, Edinburgh City Council will announce today.

The £35 million project will bring the A-listed building, once mooted as a home for the Scottish Parliament, back into public use for the first time since 1968.

The hotel will include a restaurant, café and public gallery.

Council chiefs described it as a "hugely exciting" development.

However, critics hit out at the decision to turn it into a hotel rather than a cultural facility, describing it as a "bungle".

Mongolia Adventure Gallery

Melanie Mareuge-Lejeune, a former RHS pupil and regular attendee of our events, has launched an on line gallery of her photographs. It starts off with her Mongolian Adventure with some very striking photos of the country and its people.
http://www.melml.com/gallery_290408.html

Melanie follows in the footsteps of another former pupil, Alan Mitchell, who passed through on his world tour back in 2002 when this website was launched. http://www.royalhigh.org.uk/alsmongolia.htm