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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.
HEAD TO HEAD REVIEWED BY J.R. MACLEAN
The current Head to Head exhibition of sculpture holdings from the National Galleries of Scotland collection in the Portrait Gallery is a miracle both of presentation and representation in the limited space of the Robertson Trust Gallery.
More than that, it is a tour-de-force by its inspired curator Imogen Gibbon in introducing us to a range of riches which are not often seen, and in the great variety of works – many of which take the breath away.
Feeling the heat?
Then spare a thought for the Broughton Scouts travelling abroad today for a Kayaking Adventure in south-central France.
Twenty-eight plucky lads, lassies and leaders have spent the last 18 months planning for nine days of camping, caving and climbing, the trip culminating in an overnight kayak expedition down the Ardèche River.
Daytime temperatures there are predicted to reach 98.6º F (37ºC) and not dip below 89ºF (32º).
After eight years in the role, Leith Walk councillor Maggie Chapman will step down from Ward 12 duties this summer.
She will concentrate instead on contesting the North East of Scotland seat for the Greens at next year’s Scottish Parliamentary Election.
‘While I am taking nothing for granted and will work hard for every single vote, I also firmly believe that we can and will win MSPs in every region in Scotland,’ she announced yesterday.