An item of "Breaking News". Will appear on the Breaking News page and the front page.
Leith Central Community Council has spaces for up to nine new members, and seeks nominations by 1 February.
Community Councils typically get involved with things like Planning, Licensing, Transport and the Environment. They often liaise with the police, health and community representatives, and get residents to use their neighbourhood knowledge to represent their own and other locals’ views to the Council.
Make a note in your diary!
The New Town Community Cinema will launch its 2016 programme at an event on Friday evening, and you're invited.
Doors open at the Glasite Meeting House (33 Barony Street) at 5.00pm – just so that interested bodies can wander in out of the cold, mill about, blether, and admire one of this area's most interesting and historic buildings.
There are new signs that life may at last be breathed into Units 1 and 2 at 120 Dundas Street.
KLR and RCR International Ltd gained consent to combine the properties into a ‘continental-themed café and retail’ super-deli in May last year (Ref. 14/02839/FUL).
Congratulations to all who took part in our 12 day, 24-clue photo competition which closed yesterday.
Thanks also to all those who griped supportively from the sidelines. 'Fiendishly difficult' was the politest thing anybody found to say about the quiz.
In the end there were three entrants. The winner – a magnificent joint effort by the New Town Clean Streets Campaign and David Hill – achieved 15 correct answers. Second was Rhys Fullerton with 8. Third was Lizzie Rynne with 6.
Work continues apace on fitting out the new Tesco branch at 30–30a Dundas Street (see Breaking news, 29.9.15).
A migraine of busy health-and-safety notices adorns the fencing.
It fusses about everything.
What to ingest, listen to, wear and accept. What to know before you go in, whom to be with when you’re there, and how to get out in a hurry. It even instructs local parents on what they should tell their children about the site.
These were the inclement conditions in Holyrood Park this afternoon, where Spurtle's Chief Athletics Correspondent unexpectedly found himself competing in some charity fun-run or other over eight gruelling kilometres.
Spurtle's representative, let us just call him Mr Fit, looked supremely confident at the outset and quickly established a commanding lead.
He was even able to take a few photographs over his right shoulder (see below).
Paper-party-hats-off to City of Edinburgh Council, whose kerbside Christmas tree recycling scheme appears to have run with clockwork-like efficiency this year!
And paper-party-hats-off to all those residents who successfully dragged their festive evergreens out into the cold, leaving behind a million needles on common stairs and pavements which we shall all still be scrunching into each other's carpets come Easter at least!
DEADLINE LOOMS FOR COMMENTS ON MUSIC-SCHOOL PLANS
Anyone wishing to comment on plans to rehome St Mary’s Music School in a refurbished and extended old Royal High School complex may do so online here (Ref. 15/05662/FUL) and here (Ref. 15/05665/LBC).
ARE TROLLEYBUSES A SERIOUS OPTION FOR EDINBURGH'S PUBLIC TRANSPORT NEEDS?
David Sterratt reflects on what could have been – and perhaps still can be.
Lest I be called a dog-in-a-manger, I love Edinburgh’s trams. I love travelling on them. Seeing them snake smoothly around the corner of St Andrew Square and York Place sends a shiver down my spine. They have the ambience of a proper metro system and the bell’s 'glong' fills me with civic pride.
Zonal Retail Data Systems have applied to demolish their semi-derelict building at 14–16 Union Street, formerly a printworks and photography workshop (Ref. 15/05808/CON). The site is in a Conservation Area.