Blackford Hill wins Green Flag Award

Hermitage of Braid

Edinburgh has made a concerted effort to use the Green Flag Awards as a means of improving its parks.

In the announcement today (noted here by the BBC) 20 of the 34 Green Flags awarded in Scotland go to Edinburgh.  The Hermitage of Braid and Blackford Hill Local Nature Reserve is among them.

More background details form the Keep Britain Tidy organisation.