Better Broughton is a new informal group set up by local residents to campaign for improvements to the corridor between Canonmills and the top of Leith Street.

This intriguing enigma appeared in Bellevue recently.

The point seems to be that either a food product is so unhealthy that to consume it displays a lack of common sense. Or that a lack of common sense explains people’s failure to consume this healthy food product.

There’s a self-contradictory balance at play here, although other explanations are likely available.

Gentle breeze

SHORT SHRIFT FOR THIN-END-OF-THE-WEDGE HOUSE PROPOSAL

Verticus Ltd seeks planning permission to demolish a single-storey garage at 17 Spey Street Lane and build in its place a 2-storey three-bedroom house (20/04132/FUL; 20/04133/CON).

EYRE PLACE RESIDENTS CONCERNED FOR PRIVACY

Some residents on the south side of Eyre Place are concerned that their bedrooms at the back will be overlooked from adjacent flats forming part of the proposed New Town Quarter between Dundas Street and King George V Park.

DAMAGE IN CHARLOTTE SQUARE GARDENS

A new visual assessment looking at the current condition of 49 trees in Charlotte Square Gardens has found that ‘continued instances of inappropriate cultural practices’ are causing damage.

The harms include: alteration of soil structure, physical wounding of surface roots through turf maintenance, and physical damage to a significant number of trees’ roots and stems.

This was the narrow Logie Green Road exit of Tesco this morning.

Fortunately, no one was hurt, but police are in attendance.

Sources close to the accident say the collision happened at about 11am, when a red Toyota Prius drove into the back of a stationary delivery lorry.

It is now partially wedged underneath, and recovery specialists are working out how to disentangle them. 

Customers are being directed out of the car park onto Broughton Road.

NOT TO BE SNIFFED AT

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is planning to attach a 14-metre inflatable sculpture to the south-west corner of Inverleith House.

The work – by Australian visual artist Lisa Roet – is titled Golden Monkey, and has previously been exhibited at outside locations in Beijing, Melbourne, and Hong Kong.

EDINBURGH'S CHRISTMAS CANCELLED

Live events involving mass gatherings at Edinburgh’s Christmas 2020 have been cancelled due to ‘uncertainty’ surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic.

Below is the full version of an article which appears in condensed form in the October printed issue of the Spurtle, published today.

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The common people of this country must certainly have the organ of destructiveness enormously developed. Nothing that they can possibly lay their hands upon escapes demolition.