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2017 has not started well for one Fettes Row family.
Their beloved cat Trousers – a young-looking 14-year old – has been missing since late on New Year’s Day, and they’re asking for locals’ help to get her back again.
When last seen, she was wearing a blue collar with a bell on it, and a plastic tag carrying her PETLOG number/microchip contact number.
POLICE SEEK WITNESSES
Police Scotland have issued the following press release. We reproduce it in full.
Police in Edinburgh investigating a robbery at a restaurant in Canonmills are appealing for witnesses.
The robbery occurred at Earthy on Canonmills Bridge at around 9.40pm on Thursday 5th January.
Two men with knives and wearing balaclavas robbed the premises of upwards of a three-figure sum of cash.
Pilrig Street will be closed at the southern end for 7 weeks from 9 January.
Lothian Bus services 11 and N11 will divert between Newhaven Road and Elm Row via Broughton Road and McDonald Road. See map below.
Meanwhile, until September, parking restrictions and lane closures will continue on Leith Walk with closures of, in order and as required, Iona Street, Albert Street, Middlefield, Brunswick Street, Brunswick Road and Shrub Place Lane.
Can you tell what it is yet?
Rhys Fullerton photographed this mysterious object high in the sky over Mansfield Place last night, and is pretty sure he knows its identity.
It’s Venus, he reckons. Or a satellite. Or something stuck to the camera lens.
In the photo below you may just be able to make it out in context: a tiny white dot about halfway down the diagonal between Moon and tree.
According to Libby Brooks in the Guardian (1 January 2017), Fife and Glasgow Councils are currently considering pilot schemes for a universal fixed, basic income no matter what recipients already earn in benefits or wages.
Advocates see the proposal as a means of radically simplifying the UK’s unwieldy benefits system, strengthening social solidarity, and widening choices/mobility about what life course each individual can embark upon.
LOCALS OPPOSE UNWELCOME DEVELOPMENT
The following account of a public meeting appeared in the Edinburgh Evening News on 4 December 1888.
PROPOSED POLICE AND FIRE-ENGINE STATIONS IN BROUGHTON STREET.
CUBS REFLECT ON CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS
Adventure, Challenge, Fun – all words associated with Scouting, writes Broughton Scout Group’s Assistant Leader John Hawryluk.
At the start of 2016 Chief Scout Bear Grylls challenged Cub sections the length and breadth of the country to celebrate ‘The Wildest Birthday Ever’ for the Centenary of Cub Scouts. The Cubs at 11th Broughton St Mary’s definitely rose to the challenge.
Many thanks to Rhys Fullerton, who caught these beautiful images in the Botanics yesterday.
‘I spotted it posing and keeping warm in the temperate lands glasshouse and got within half a metre of it,’ he told us later.
The bird was obviously fascinated by Fullerton’s artistic displays.
For more on robins, see Miles Forde’s article in Issue 247, p.3.
Did you enjoy your city-centre shopping experience this weekend?
The cheerful and excited throng?
The elegance of Edinburgh in all its festive finery?
Reader David Young did not, and here are his Christmas snarls explaining why.
1. St Andrew Square
Spurtle is grateful for any and all Christmas cards received.
But of the one card we have received so far in 2016, this from Napier Bathrooms & Interiors in Canonmills is far and away our favourite.
Somehow, we were tickled by the combination of festive sentiment, gradually de-railing scansion, and a glossy insert gushing warmly about the latest in Whirlspray and TurboFlush technology.
How have we managed so long without an orientation light?
Read and be amazed …