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Edinburgh Greens yesterday selected their candidate to stand in the Ward 12 (Leith Walk) by-election on 10 September.
She is Susan Rae, who lives in the area and has experience of local government.
The Greens are keen to maintain their former six-strong presence on the Council, and believe that the single transferable vote system used in the forthcoming contest makes this a real possibility.
After her nomination, Rae commented:
Months ago, Mrs Left-Handed Tea Drinker sent me on a mission.
She entrusted me with the task of buying our Little Left-Handed Tea Drinker Nephew a birthday present. I had strict instructions to get a specific item: some generic children’s action toy that was apparently his favourite and from which I was not to deviate.
After a quick Internet search, the only place I could find that sold it was the dreaded John Lewis.
The closure of Broughton Street between York Place and Albany Street is scheduled to continue until midnight on 17 July.
Work began on 4 July as contractors for Scottish Power opened what resembled a series of random trenches in search of ancient civilisations. Broughton Street Lane and York Lane are also both closed at their eastern ends.
Rumours among shopkeepers on the street include one story that all the sewers are being replaced. This is incorrect.
Edinburgh Labour Party last night chose Marion Donaldson to stand in the City of Edinburgh Council by-election for Leith Walk (Ward 12) on 10 September.
Donaldson (pictured centre, below) is already well known in the neighbourhood, both as a resident and as a member of the Leith Central Community Council.
Commenting after her selection, she referred to her experience as the team leader for a local Food Bank:
DRYDEN STREET, TERRACE, GAIT
Dusk’s belated tryst with the summered street. Lamplight exhaled onto listless setts, shadows soothed into quietude. Behind a lambent veil, the fathomless black and torpid whites of the night Unbounded.
The metropolis as mirror of the Manifold, a micro-cosmos of bright and dark matter. In the north Edinburgh constellation, a rare binary system: the New Town and Leith, neighbouring worlds with a common centre of mass.
Batleys’ half-baked proposal to extend opening hours at their 30 McDonald Place cash and carry have been refused (Ref. 15/02378/FUL).
As reported here on 2 June, they wanted to operate between 8.30am and 5.00pm on Sundays from 2 August to 7 September.
They said this was to help customers cater for increased business over the Festival period.
Locals saw it as an attempted erosion of their one-day-a-week’s peace and quiet.
They may have been drunk. They may have been anti-social.
But those responsible for tipping over two fully laden communal bins on McDonald Road last night were at least fit.
Those things weigh a ton, and irritated local residents are unable to right them without help.
Spurtle contacted Waste Services and the Neighbourhood Partnership earlier this afternoon. Hopefully order will be restored soon.
The inaugural Edinburgh Police Box Festival continues today with a variety of more or less odd micro-happenings across the city.
For a map of all venues, see foot of page. Here, we look at what’s on offer in Spurtleshire.
First stop was the newly revamped olive-green Canonmills PB yesterday afternoon, where owner Moira Ross was sipping fizz and chatting to passers-by.
Athlete and former pupil Kimberley Reed was guest of honour at Drummond Community High School’s annual celebration of achievement last week, writes David Sterratt (Chair of the Parent Council).
Reed, recently awarded the Eric Liddell Trophy for ‘Most promising world class athlete of the future’, now combines her hammer throwing with studying Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, where she has a particular interest in amnesia and Alzheimer’s.
RHYS FULLERTON REVIEWS
Edinburgh-based artist Trina Bohan has exhibited all around the globe, from here in the UK, to the USA, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.
Originally from New Zealand, where she studied in Christchurch and gained a diploma in Graphic Design, Bohan is this month unleashing her brooding and moody paintings on the Arusha Gallery, Dundas Street.