Interesting. 

Intentional art or legless on shore leave? 

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Larry Hutchison has been visiting the Christian Aid Book Sale since it first began in the early 1970s, writes Julia Forsyth, one of the organisers of the event. 

He first stumbled upon the sale almost by accident. He remembers Edinburgh back in the ’70s as a city full of second-hand bookshops. He has been a book trader and bibliophile all his working life, so would often come into the city seeking treasures in the form of books and ephemera. 

As you read this, advance copies of the May issue are already appearing across the barony like spring hares dodging buses on the A1. 

Page 1 skips into action with fivefold bad news for anyone wanting a permanent home in the Greater Spurtleshire area. There follows some cheerier reportage about city-centre piracy and another starring role for the heart of the New Town. 

K&S Mir Ltd seeks planning permission for a new extension of up to 3 storeys adjoining the A-listed The Place Hotel at 34–38 York Place (26/01440/LBC).

Apple TV has returned to the New Town to film scenes for Season 3 of its hit period drama The Buccaneers.  

Inspired by Edith Wharton's unfinished novel of the same name, the story follows wealthy American women attempting to infiltrate high society in Victorian London. 

Locals gathered yesterday to celebrate the life and love of Agnes Maclehose (née Craig), who was born on 26 April 1758. 

Maclehose (‘Nancy’ to intimates) came from Glasgow, where she met and married the lawyer James Maclehose in 1776. She parted 4 years later on the grounds of his mental cruelty, by which time she had borne him 4 children.

If you like your video content slow and steady with a mysterious dark stranger wandering through it for no good reason, you'll enjoy this short clip on YouTube.

It shows the Cyprus-registered Seaway Alpha Lift leaving Leith this morning bound for Inch Cape, where she was expected to arrive at about 3pm.

Unbelievably perfect.

The delights and dangers of photo-editing with AI.

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Some locals have reacted with alarm to plans for new housing at the end of Heriot Hill Terrace (26/01422/FUL). 

Darlington-based Mandale Homes (MH) proposes demolishing the unremarkable structure at Nos 32–34 (where the Busy Bees Nursery operated until early 2024) and building 10 new townhouses on the site.