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A flexible but forgetful person seeks help in recovering two lost purses and two or perhaps four sets of keys.
Their securely stuck sign adorns a Royal Mail box on Mansfield Place, offers a choice of rewards, and contains in the small print a rather touching admission of indifferent baking skills.
If you’ve seen the missing items, or have already bent over backwards to be helpful by handing them in somewhere, please let the owner know on: Mob. 0797 90 46561.
The Glendola Leisure Group, owner of the Shanghai nightclub at 16 George Street, wants to erect an obelisk, table feature and canopy in the basement area outside its property.
The proposed obelisk would be an incongruous, untapered stone pillar which, being cemented or mortared together, you couldn’t even play Jenga with.
With new legislation coming into force in September, Police Scotland and British Transport Police are this month busily reminding scrap metal dealers about their revised responsibilities.
‘Despite a decrease in reported offences,’ says BTP’s Chief Inspector Stuart Wilson, ‘metal theft still incurs considerable cost to the Scottish economy and continues to disrupt and inconvenience the communities we serve’.
Nefarious practice makes perfect
The new guidance comes not a moment too soon:
The lampposts of Calton Hill are a complete mess. Hundreds of small stickers have been added to them – some to an astonishing height (see foot of page) – by visitors from all over the world.
Rather than succumb to another fit of the Victor Meldrews, Spurtle has this weekend decided to go with the flow and try to understand – even enjoy – these often rather well-designed and enigmatic little messages.
Where in the world will they lead us?
As last reported here on 10 March, new principles for the layout and uses of George Street have reached an advanced stage. They will go before the Transport and Environment Committee for approval on 7 June.
That report is available as a pdf at the foot of this page. As far as it goes (precise timetabling, materials, designs and budget are not yet available), we think the document is helpful and admirably clear. We therefore don’t see a need to paraphrase it at length.
Another fine day. More crowds in St Andrew Square Garden enjoying the sunshine, enjoying the grass. Not the gurgling bog but the warm, soft, scented, easy-on-the-eye grass.
Monday saw the second Edinburgh outing of the gold open-topped bus in as many weeks as it visited Broughton Primary School, writes Nicola Clark-Tonberg (Chair, Parent Staff Association).
Lothian Buses were helping celebrate the success of 64 children who had competed in the Edinburgh Marathon Festival junior races at the weekend to raise money for their school.
The missing Gormleys will not return to the Water of Leith this summer.
Last August we reported the National Galleries of Scotland’s intention to replace the four human figures at Bell’s Mill, Stockbridge, Powderhall and Bonnington – possibly as early as May 2016.
But now, ‘complex engineering challenges’ mean the buff bathers will not be seen again until May 2017 at the earliest.
One Spurtle does not a summer make, but our printed June issue makes a good start with swooping scoops on art, zooming fly-pasts on licensing and flags, high-pitched screeching about the bargain buy of the season, and a free sunshine give-away for every reader.
We examine the downsides of free Wi-Fi, delayed reappearances in public places, and a proposal to expand the bare and uninteresting flank of an old friend. We delve into the anatomical impossibilities of planners and assessors, bring news of supermarket comings and restaurant goings, and lift the lid on local crime.
The future of 8 St Andrew Square becomes a little clearer (and more appetising) with news that London-based Iberica Food and Culture Ltd has applied for planning permission to open here (Ref. 16/02587/FUL).