The latest positive local news from West Edinburgh: food and drink, nightlife, people, arts, sport and business stories from La Vida Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Zoo has celebrated the birth of two endangered Asiatic lion cubs and Scotland's first baby sloth, and its Giant Lanterns trail returns this winter with a space safari theme.
South Queensferry's Crab & Lobster Fish Shack is the only Scottish restaurant on the National Fish & Chip Awards Restaurant of the Year top ten, days after a Scottish Restaurant Awards win.
Edinburgh Leisure has reopened the refurbished pool, fitness suite and studio at Wester Hailes Education Centre, with step-free access, a Changing Places facility and a pool pod for easier entry.
Lost Shore, home to Europe's largest wave pool in a former Ratho quarry, topped a lifelong surfer's ranking of 27 wave pools and has hosted world champion bodyboarders this summer.
JD Gyms has opened its new round-the-clock club in Chesser, with a large free-weights area, Hammer Strength machines, lifting platforms, saunas and free parking.
Meggetland has been awarded £200,000 for new pitches, Commsworld has renewed its sponsorship of Boroughmuir's first team and girls' squads, and Banshees founder Gillian Nimmo was shortlisted nationally.
Balerno Bowling Club's B team won the WESBA Premiership in its debut season, while Grant Wilson claimed a fifth men's title and Tom Murray a third seniors crown.