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FIRST WOMAN APPOINTED TO COMMITTEE
Annandale Mosque is honoured to appoint Mrs Nasim Azad as a committee member, writes Imam Hassan Rabbani.
She is the first woman to be appointed – a move by which we hope to further diversify our representation.
On becoming a committee member, both the Mosque and Nasim have made history in that Annandale is the first mosque in Edinburgh to have a female committee member.
Understanding and cohesion
LIFE, QUALMS, AND THE WRONG WORD
Do you ever have the feeling, just as your coach is crossing the Forth Road Bridge, that you have left the cat at home shut in a room with an open box full of undelivered Spurtles?
Or perhaps your qualms comprise ovens left switched on, or windows open, or bath taps gurgling in the dark?
Such unsettling doubts come unbidden, and their origin is stress, disquiet at shifting contexts, the pang of leaving one space or way of being for another.
Oh dear. Having pledged we'd take to task all election-connected mangled mathematics that came our way, Spurtle had been hoping we wouldn't have to write anything more on the subject before 8 June.
But no sooner had our first article been published on Monday than a leaflet with yet another dodgy bar chart on it plopped through the letterbox.
An election pledge is an election pledge, so we'll share the offending item with readers here.
NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT IN St ANDREW SQUARE GARDEN
It all began so promisingly.
Uninterrupted grass returfed across St Andrew Square Garden.
The promise of no more intrusive events taking up space here during the Fringe.
And only a few contented tourists sheltering from the rain in Costa Coffee.
And then the sun came out. People began peppering the grass like daisies. It was lovely.
With yet another election comes the potential for more barcharts to make maths teachers weep.
Throughout this campaign, Spurtle will highlight dodgy barcharts (and perhaps other obviously dubious statistics) from any party or individual standing locally.
The first such example to come to our attention appeared on Conservative candidate Iain McGill's twitter feed on Sunday 7 May.
The rather charming quote currently featured on Curiouser and Curiouser’s Broughton Street A-board is taken from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden (see foot of page).
The original continues, ‘… and things pushing up and working under the earth’, which sounds as though it was written with Leith Street in mind, but wasn't.
Sadly, Burnett’s description is not particularly accurate this spring, where Auld Reekie rain has been in short supply.
What follows is a press release from Police Scotland.
We reproduce it unedited and in full.
Council-supplied results in detail are available in the pdfs at the foot of this page.
Council-supplied results for outlying parts of Edinburgh are available from the City of Edinburgh Council website here.
The following candidates were elected in and around Spurtleshire.
Inverleith, Ward 5
Max Mitchell (Con), 19.8%
Gavin Barrie (SNP), 19%
Ian Whyte (Con), 17.1%
Hal Osler (LibDem), 16.6%
You have until 10.00pm tonight to cast your vote in the City of Edinburgh Council election.
You don’t need your poll card to vote, but it will speed things up a bit if you take it along.
If you can’t remember where your polling station is, it is marked on your poll card.
If your dog or toddler has swallowed your poll card, follow this link to outwit them.
BRIGHT FUTURE IN VIEW?
A new tenant could soon move into the Glasite Meeting House.