We're pleased to report that – despite some minor ponding by one of the gates – the new swails proved equal to the task after the first thunderplump of summer this lunchtime.
Thanks go to the Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust and Sustrans.
For background to this story, see Issue 348.
and the light fandango.
No. 45 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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New proposals ring alarm bells
They’ve been a long time coming, but new plans for elements of the 2.4 ha New Town Quarter site between Dundas St and King George V Park have finally appeared.
Chief Executive Jo Buckley (pictured) gave updates on the Dunard Centre’s progress at May’s New Town & Broughton Community Council meeting. We very briefly summarised them in Issue 351 (p.4).
Interesting points and clarifications for which we didn’t have room in print included:
The Dunard Centre, scheduled to open in 2029, is administered under the name Impact Scotland. It is independently owned and managed.
As you read this, copies of the June Spurtle are already thundering towards Broughton like cats urged on by professional couriers with no sense of urgency.
Issue 351 leaps from the shelf with news on Page 1 of Council plans to snog, settle or chuck, towering ambition toppled, top turfs, and infusion enthusings.
On Page 2, local repercussions and odd justifications feature, as do doos, questionable neighbourliness, invasive plastic, and an old uncle possibly leaving Edinburgh for good.
Police Scotland released a press release this evening which we reproduce below in full.
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Detectives are appealing for information after a teenage girl was the victim of a serious sexual assault in Edinburgh on Sunday, 25 May, 2025.
The incident happened shortly after 5am in a basement storage area on York Place.