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Forth Street-based Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Equality Council is hosting a lecture by Sir Geoffrey Palmer OBE (right) on 17 December in St Augustine's Church.
The talk will offer new perspectives on Scotland's involvement in the Slave Trade, something with which Broughton was once intimately involved (see Breaking news, 15.11.13).
Today is Giving Tuesday, ‘a day set aside for people to shun commercialism and support good causes’.
By no coincidence, it is also the day on which St Mary’s Music School has opted to release a short animated film supporting the message: ‘Whatever the Season … please support St Mary’s Music School.’
It’s rather charming, and you can view it HERE.
Mixed motives
OFFICIALS AND COUNCILLORS DID NOT SPOT PROBLEM
Reader Ash Hughes has identified a different prior-notification sequence to that examined yesterday, this one covering the telecom mast adjacent to Rosebank Cemetery (Ref. 18/01275/PNT).
WAS PHONE MAST BUILT IN THE WRONG PLACE?
Redbraes residents are up in arms about a new telecommunications mast, which appeared this summer on the south side of Broughton Road.
The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh will hold a second public consultation at 20A Inverleith Row on 10 January to seek views about a major programme of redevelopment and refurbishment at its NE corner (18/09704/PAN).
The Edinburgh Biomes Project envisages work on listed buildings/structures; construction of a glasshouse, research glasshouses, education and support buildings; landscaping; polytunnels/temporary decant facilities.
In the run-up to World AIDS Day, Broughton-based charity Waverley Care has launched its Tartan Ribbon Online Auction.
It now seeks bids on everything from appearing as a character in a Christopher Brookmyre novel to a signed copy of the autobiographical story of Garbage, from sport and theatre tickets to ‘high-speed thrills’ (not cycling round Picardy Place at 5.15pm on a Friday). You can bid for jewellery, dinner for two, spa treatments, artworks, and even a ‘“money can’t buy” chance to meet Grant Stott’.
FIRST LOOK INSIDE EDINBURGH’S INSPIRING NEW GALLERY COMPLEX
On a morning of scudding sunshine and showers, Collective Gallery today admitted Press and friends to its new home on Calton Hill, ahead of an official opening to the public on Saturday.
Typewronger Books – the typewriter repair service, micro-bookshop, events space, and now independent publisher – is one year old today.
Spurtle congratulated proprietor and human dynamo Tom Hodges outside the Croall Place police box this afternoon, where he had been entertaining well-wishers with fizz, unusual reading and general bonhomie since 11am and will continue until 6pm.
The Lord Provost, Frank Ross, unveiled a commemorative flagstone this morning to honour the bravery of a First World hero.
Sapper Adam Archibald, was born at 24 Shaw's Street in 1879, and later lived at Balfour and Hillhouse Streets. He was awarded the Victoria Cross by King George V in May 1919.
His citation read:
As you read this, the latest Spurtle has been written, printed, folded, and carefully counted into piles ready for wind-powered distribution across Broughton and beyond.
Issue 279 kicks off with some bad good news for first-time home-buyers, some good bad news for car parkers, and mixed tidings for those following the hypothetical progress of inevitable trams.
Page 2, like everywhere else at the moment, is dominated by Planning issues, with a sprinkling of wobbly parapet, airy art, and disappearing police box.