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Yesterday, we printed reader Keith Cowan’s letter in which he asked who in the Council had made the decision to close Calton Hill on Hogmanay (Letters, 27.12.15).
Today, we reprint a reply to a similar query Cowan addressed to CEC’s Chief Executive, Andrew Kerr, just before Christmas.
This is the third of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles, with a cash prize at the end for the person with the most correct answers.
Keep your solutions quiet for now. You may wish to trade them later, depending on how everyone else is doing.
All will become clear in due course.
PHOTO 5: DECLINE AND FALL
PHOTO 6: NOT POSH
This is the second of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles, with a cash prize at the end for the person with the most correct answers.
Keep your answers to yourself for now. You may wish to trade solutions later, depending on how everyone else is doing.
All will become clear later.
PHOTO 3: OVERHEAD
Here are the first two location-puzzles in our 12 Days of Christmas quiz.
(See yesterday's post for the general idea.)
Keep the answer to yourself for now. What seems obvious to you may not be obvious to someone else, and you may be able to trade solutions with other readers later in the competititon.
PHOTO 1: STEP IT GAILY …
Continuing for the full 12 days of Christmas, Spurtle will tomorrow start its annual irritating spot-the-location photo competition with an exciting cash prize at the end.
Two locations will appear each day. They are all in or immediately adjacent to Spurtleshire and will be, for the most part, familiar to most readers.
However, they have been deliberately viewed or cropped in such a way as to render them annoyingly obscure.
Planning permission is sought to reconfigure four existing high-level windows on the east elevation of the peculiar building at 2 Hart Street Lane.
Also proposed is reconfiguration of the north facade to include a new entrance door and window at ground-floor level, and new and configured windows at first and second-floor levels, together with a timber balcony at second-floor level (Ref. 15/05345/FUL).
Everyone recognises the power of a well-told story. Stories can entertain, alarm, provoke and inform. And, as Blythe Robertson explains here, storytelling is now being used to help government identify, instigate and communicate change.
During Book Week Scotland, which ran from 23–29 November, I had an opportunity, perhaps one that was slightly uncomfortable for me, to cast off the constraints of my civil service life and bring some of the other strings to my bow to bear.
MARIANNE WHEELAGHAN'S THE SHOESHINE KILLER – REVIEW
This is the second adventure in local author Marianne Wheelaghan’s Scottish Lady Detective series, writes Caroline Roussot.
Wheelaghan (right) this time transports us to Fiji, where her heroine DS Louisa Townsend is due to attend a police conference on money-laundering.
TWO OPEN E-MAILS ON BELLEVUE'S FESTIVE RECYCLING FARCE
Thank you for responding to my extensive email of 10th December with your hand delivered letter of 11th December apologising for your failure to inform me of the revised waste/recycling collections.
As requested, I have attached stickers to my green bin and blue box and redistributed materials into the appropriate receptacles.
Congratulations to Powderhall Bronze Ltd for superb restoration work on Sir Eduardo Paolozzi’s Manuscript of Monte Cassino sculpture group at the top of Broughton Street, writes John Ross Maclean.
Recently, purple aerosol graffiti besmirched the great foot, and obscure lettering was incised on its rear. These and other imperfections were effaced by a chemical solution.