Waiting.

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Police Scotland issued the following press release today. We republish it unedited and in full below.

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Police Scotland have released images of a man who may be able to assist them with their enquiries into an incident which occurred on Friday, 11 October, 2024, at around 9pm in the Stockbridge area of Edinburgh.

Anyone who has experienced the noise, anxiety and expense of fixing a roof will feel a pang of sympathy for the Property Committee at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral. The B-listed building’s Sacristy and Chancel (South Aisle) require major work to stop rain entering and causing further damage and collapsed ceilings below. 

This programme of restoration and replacement is now the subject of applications for planning permission and listed building consent submitted to the Council at the end of last month.

Police Scotland issued a press release yesterday which we reproduce unedited and in full below.

Detectives are appealing for information following a robbery at an address on Saxe Coburg Street in Edinburgh.

Around 9.10pm on Friday, 11 October, a man entered the property, threatened the 92-year-old male occupant, and stole a quantity of cash before leaving in an unknown direction.

The loneliness of the off-season ice cream seller.

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The final round  

We now enter the last days of the Industrial Hall, Edinburgh’s first purpose-built exhibition space on Annandale Street.  

No amount of roller-skating stunts, Christmas carnivals, circus troupes, galloping Cossacks and smoke-shrouded boxing collisions could disguise the fact that Scotland’s economy in the postwar Depression of the early and mid 1920s could not sustain a commercial venture of this kind.

In wet conditions yesterday, local resident David Harrison led a tour of Rosebank Cemetery to look at some of the graves there erected and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

There are 273 individuals dating from the First World War remembered here, their deaths occurring between the start of hostilities in 1914 and the formal conclusion on completion of peace treaties after 1918 (the so-called dates of responsibility). 

Copenhagen in the rain. Warhorse.

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