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An application has been submitted for planning permission to make internal alterations at 7–11 East London Street (site of the former Locanda da Gusti).

Some gentle wanders about Broughton today revealed one local warming up on the steps of St Mary’s Cathedral with a glass of milk and a good read.

The weather forecast predicts another day of sunshine and showers in Edinburgh, meaning another day of sudden brilliance and shadow on Howe Street where Hatti Pattisson is exhibiting work at No. 25.

Individual works by Susan Smith and Leo du Feu have often caught the eye at Bon Papillon in the past.

This month, however, mother and son exhibit together for the first time in a happy combination of similar interests and differing styles. Both are fascinated by nature in general and birds in particular.

It is now nearly 65 years since Big Brother first made an appearance in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The kindly or threatening embodiment of totalitarianism has since become synonymous with mass surveillance, or the intrusive abuse of such surveillance technology by the state.

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: