Suse Coon

<img src="http://www.lothianlife.co.uk/uploads/suse.jpg"> Suse Coon started life training to be an architect but ended up as a fashion buyer then civil servant. After some time out to bring up her family of three, she returned to what had been a hobby and entered the field of freelance journalism. After becoming regional correspondent, then editor of the orienteering magazine CompassSport, she formed Pages Editorial & Publishing Services. In this guise, West Lothian Life was launched, while Suse maintained a level of freelancing and wrote the award winning children's novel Richard's Castle. In 1999, Suse bought over CompassSport and found her time taken up pretty well exclusively with the two magazines. In 2004, West Lothian Life was expanded to form Lothian Life, however, the workload was too great. In 2006, CompassSport was sold and Suse is concentrating now on the web version of Lothian Life. Her hobbies include gardening, orienteering and Tai Chi.
Articles by Suse Coon:

Northern Theme at the Printmakers

In its final week at the Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery is a fascinating exhibition by two of the country’s foremost printmakers Alastair Clark and Gill Tyson. Alastair was working on an exhibition entitled Skylights, inspired by the Aurora Borealis, while quite independently, Gill was preparing a series of lithographs inspired by a summer spent on the Lofoten Islands, north of the Arctic Circle. This common theme of northern light, in the form of the aurora borealis and the midnight sun, make a ‘brilliant’ combination.

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Elephant in Edinburgh – ticket competition

Lothian Life has come together with the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh to give away 5 pairs of tickets to see Elephant, the spectacular African-inspired family show that will stun and enchant audiences of all ages.

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Young Orienteers Find their Way to Holyrood

Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park welcomes around 450 children from 20 countries this week to take part in the 2008 International SchoolSport Federation (ISF) World Schools Orienteering Championships.

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Tasty Tatties

Potatoes are the ‘in’ vegetable this year – it’s International Year of the Potato, so here are some healthy cooking tips and recipes.

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