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As you read this, Issue 257 rattles from the press like steak knives through skeletons. 

Listen! Can you hear a soft-pawed wolf howling beside Calton Hill? Can you hear the banshee moans on Broughton Road? Are your bowels about to burst? Yes? Then you have read the future, or at least an early draft of Page 1. 

Beware, beware! Page 2 is full of worms and death and cemeteries, the unexpected contents of a box, a serial intruder, grim-faced Leith Walkers preparing for the worst. 

ADVERTS ALL OVER THE PLACE, 24/7 

Last month we reported how the multinational JC Decaux (JCD) had outlined plans for – and sought feedback on – equipping George Street (Issue 256).

It now seeks planning permission for 5 bus shelters and 4 stand-alone ‘community information panels’ (CIPs). 

Where they’d be and what they're not

JCD wants to place the bus shelters outside Nos 10, 13B, 47, 60, and 63 George Street. 

WORLD-CLASS VISUAL ARTS SPACE IN 2017 

In what has not been a great week for contemporary art in the capital (23.9.16), we’re delighted to bring you good news.  

After five years’ behind-the-scenes toiling, Collective Gallery signalled the start of work on its new Calton Hill observatory complex this morning. 

Glovart Holdings Ltd has submitted revised plans for its (already consented) development at 1–6 Canonmills Bridge (Ref.  16/3406/FUL). 

The variation affects the ground and basement floors. It comprises removing an internal wall to provide a single (larger) commercial unit – probably a shop and/or restaurant. 

Are you feeling sweet-toothed and creative? 

If so, why not try this recipe from Willie Lonnie, head chef at No. 11 Brunswick Street. Don't be intimidated – 'cranachan' comes from the Gaelic word cranachan, meaning 'an easy-to-follow recipe with a delicously impressive result'. 

So roll up your trousers, get stuck in, and send us a photo of how it turned out. 

INGREDIENTS 

For the cranachan

Earlier this year, we reported how service on the City of Edinburgh Council’s online Planning and Building Standards portal was interrupted following a technical upgrade (Breaking news 30.6.16). 

We reported further intermittent problems in July, August and September (Breaking news 29.8.16). 

Yesterday, a Council Planning official announced that: 

Various more or less spine-chilling apparitions have been cropping up around Broughton since 1 October.

So far, we have resisted reporting them for fear of encouraging the appearance of Christmas lights before Bonfire Night.

But now that we’re well into the second half of the month, this seems like a reasonable point at which to introduce our favourites so far.

We begin (top-right) with Granny Thomson’s seasonal spiders on Bellevue Place. The hanging bones in the foliage are particularly effective in poor light.

Proposals by City of Edinburgh Council to restrict access in and out of Montgomery Street are the focus of debate. 

The plans (TRO 16/58 and RSO 16/13) seem to be under-explained measures connected to the forthcoming Phase 5 or Phase 6 of the Leith Project. 

MARRIOTT HOTEL TO OPEN SOON 

For the last seven years, many locals have been anxiously monitoring the progress – or lack of it – of development at 1–3 Baxter’s Place. 

As scheme after scheme failed to materialise, and the Category A-listed frontage turned green before our eyes, it seemed as if the structure was more likely to mysteriously burn down than find a new purpose.

Police Scotland released a press release this morning which we reproduce below in full. 

Police in Edinburgh are appealing for information to help trace a 17-year old reported missing.

Ingrid Daniels or Makuwaza travelled to Edinburgh from England in early October.

She had been staying in the Newhaven area, where she was last seen around 7.15pm on Thursday 13 October.