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There comes a point when words are no longer enough in talking about the works of Jenny Matthews.

The St Stephen’s Playfair Trust (SSPT) shows unmistakeable signs of frustration with the prospective buyer of St Stephen’s Church. He or she is not talking to them.

To saunter up Bellevue into Mansfield Place, writes David Hill, and survey, in the middle distance, the gentle ascent of Broughton Street into the city centre is an experience to make the heart leap.

This elegant combination of triangles in steel mesh, suspended from a tapering tubular arc, stands at the end of Perth Street and is called ‘Swoop’.

Are you sick of stickers? Do you find graffiti grates? Does fly-posting really cheese you off?

Stop moaning, then, and do something practical to help clean-up the neighbourhood.

Teams of 4 or more will meet on 9 May to start smartening up local streets, including:

This perky but eroded owl is one of a pair at No. 20 Brandon Street, formerly the plant floor of Edinburgh printers R.& R. Clark.

The company was established in 1846 by Robert Clark, with financial help from his cousin Richard.

Anyone who thought they had seen the last of this remarkable structure at 8 East Scotland Street Lane should think again.

The first commercial tram service linking the world to Broughton will depart from the Gyle Centre at 5.00am on Saturday 31 May.

I am a creature of habit. 

I don’t like change and I don’t deal with it well. I get my hair cut at Larry’s Barber Shop on Montgomery Street, just off Elm Row, and I’ve been going there for years.

Recently I found myself in a predicament when the only day I could go was a Sunday and that’s the day that he’s closed. As I looked at my schedule I was only free on every Sunday for weeks, and I was long overdue a trim. What was I going to do?

Too hot?

Fear not! Issue 229 has been designed in Italy to fold easily into a convenient and accurately spelt micro-bikini, sun hat or protective solar goggles. Feel cooler, more attractive, and part of the beautiful in-crowd out and about across Broughton from tomorrow.