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New research suggests that waiting times at city-centre pedestrian crossings are not improving, despite efforts to address the problem.
On 2 September, we featured painstaking research by reader 'Paul at Fountainbridge' (PF) into crossing times. In most cases, it required the patience of a saint not to ignore the red man and traverse at peril.
If British legislation restricting the possession and use of firearms is among the strictest of its kind in the world, it is only partly out of a wish to keep such weapons out of the hands of bank robbers.
In the past, gun legislation in Scotland was aimed principally at Jacobites, vagrants, poachers and potential Bolsheviks.
Armed drunk young men tended – until the late 19th century – to slip through a legal loophole.
This little fella is Alfie, and he’s been missing from his home on Bellevue Place since Sunday 6 September.
A local resident saw the body of a dead cat being removed near here by a Council employee in a white van on that day, but CEC staff say they have no record of it. (It's their standard practice to log such events and check for a microchip.)
Local animal shelters report no recent arrivals matching Alfie’s description.
All of which leaves the owner in a horrible state of doubt and apprehension.
The Scottish National Party and Labour won in yesterday’s City of Edinburgh Council Leith Walk (Ward 12) by-election.
As expected, it resolved into a three-horse race between Lewis Ritchie (SNP), 2,290 votes; Marion Donaldson (Lab.) 1,623 votes; and Susan Rae (Grn) 1,381 votes.
The turnout was only 25.1 per cent. So much for re-energised Scottish politics.
Kingsford Developments Ltd have applied to create two new gates in the existing stone boundary wall and cast-iron railings of the former school at 154 McDonald Road (Ref. 15/03993/LBC).
One is on the McDonald Road side itself (see below-right). The other (pictured here) is adjacent to Broughton Primary School’s top playground facing Broughton Road. It would entail the removal of a tree.
Just in case you’d forgotten, there will be a City of Edinburgh Council by-election tomorrow to elect two councillors for Ward 12 (Leith Walk).
Ten candidates are standing, of whom eight appeared at our hustings last month.
Some 25,526 eligible voters can rank as many or as few of these candidates as they wish.
David Sterratt takes an occasional look back at what was rattling Broughton's cages …
5 years ago
Spurtle 186 reported that The Royal British Legion Club on Rodney Street was under threat, as the Royal British Legion Scotland Edinburgh Central Branch (which owned the property) feared the quite separate Club (whose committee ran social events and the bar there) was financially insecure and would no longer be able to pay rent.
NTBCC WILL OPPOSE OLD ROYAL HIGH SCHEME
New plans for the old Royal High School were roundly criticised at last night’s meeting of the New Town and Broughton Community Council.
There was some agreement that the latest iteration of the proposal had improved on previous ones, and that the eastern accommodation block was to be applauded for its hugging of the hill.
But the six-storey western block was condemned by all for excessive height, bulk and the way it would obscure views of the Hamilton building and its landscape context.
EAST SCOTLAND STREET LANE – NEW BLOW
It may not quite match the thunderous rumblings and counter-rumblings of the current debtate about the old Royal High School.
The following account of multiple break-ins around Broughton on Friday night are enough to give anyone who loves their dried ling fish nightmares.
Fortunately, your claret and spruce beer are probably safe for the time being since it dates from 30 September 1765. The report, which appeared in the Caledonian Mercury, comprises one breathless sentence of 247 words.