Skip to main content

Breaking news

An item of "Breaking News". Will appear on the Breaking News page and the front page.

A VERY EDINBURGH CHIBBING

Submitted by Editor on

NEW FILM BACKS MUSIC SCHOOL PLAN 

A visually stunning new video has appeared online asserting the merits of moving St Mary’s Music School into a restored and sympathetically extended old Royal High School (see HERE). 

High-profile supporters Alex McCall Smith and Nicola Benedetti feature in the short film produced by Rapid Visual Media for the Perfect Harmony campaign.

COUNCIL MOVES ON SHORT-TERM LETS

Submitted by Editor on

City of Edinburgh Council has taken stock of its existing powers, and set out a wish-list for new powers it wants from the Scottish Government, in a bid to control problematic short-term lets. 

The findings are contained in a report going before the Corporate Policy and Strategy Committee for consideration on 7 August (see pdf at foot of page). 

Concerns

'THE KING AND I' AND CROAN BEE

Submitted by Editor on

As mentioned in Issue 275, the subject of the 2017 film The King and I is kenspeckle local resident Graham Croan Bee. 

Croan Bee lives in Scotland Street and is well known in a sartorial way for what he chooses to wear and when he doesn’t. He is also noted for imparting memorable greetings to all creatures great and small as he meanders in and around the area. Not infrequently, he bears fine bouquets of flowers. He belongs to the numerous Croan Bee family and is uncle to Daniel, current proprietor of Something Fishy in Broughton Street.

ISSUE 276 – OUT SOON!

Submitted by Editor on

As you read this, the August printed edition of the Spurtle is thundering off the press like a flash flood down Dublin Street. Copies will be inundating areas near you soon. 

Page 1 launches with a playground splash, mixed views on an uphill struggle, more political promises, and a new date for the return of nude bathing in the Water of Leith.  

POLICE ASK FOR PUBLIC'S HELP

Submitted by Editor on

Separate incidents on the same day have led to Edinburgh Police appealing for witnesses. 

The first (Incident no. 3698) happened on Monday 23 July, at around 7.25pm, when a female was struck by a male cyclist (perhaps in his 30s) on a pedestrian crossing between Gayfield Square and London Road. She was taken to hospital with a head injury. 

The cyclist stopped but did not leave contact details.

Police are keen to trace him.

Attack

MINOR CRISIS

Submitted by Editor on

 CAN ANY READER HELP? 

In the general scheme of things – the rise and fall of empires, the extinction of species, the erosion of mountain ranges – it's no great shakes. 

But in the mind of a small child, it looms very large indeed.

The sign shown here has appeared on a lamppost at the corner of Bellevue and Bellevue Terrace. It announces the recent loss of Ratty the jellycat teddy in the Broughton area, and clearly reflects one Lilly Rose's anxiety to be reunited with him or her or indeed it.