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Ground at the southern end of the Rodney Sreet Tunnel beneath Summer Bank has being prepared by Council staff to create a wildflower meadow. 

It will bloom over the coming months from mid-summer to autumn.

Pictured right is one of two grubbily elaborate basement doors on the east side of North St David's Street. They are unlike any we've seen in the New Town before, and had a mysterious permanently-shut look about them when we passed this morning on the bus.

A New Town resident seeks planning permission to demolish this 3-space flat-roofed garage and replace it with a two-bedroom, 2-bathroom, 3-loo mews dwelling on land behind Category A-listed 65 Northumberland Street (Northumberland Street NW Lane; Ref. 14/01453/FUL). 

Nothing of any consequence happened in Broughton today. Or, if it did, nobody bothered to tell the Spurtle about it.

Here, instead (right), is a photograph of some cherry blossom on Cumberland Street.

Members of Edinburgh's Sikh community paraded this lunchtime in a colourful (and noisy) celbration of Vaisakhi.

The parade assembled on Mill Lane, then progressed along Bonnington Road, Pilrig Street, Leith Walk, Great Junction Steeet and Cables Wynd before ending up where it had started.

After the Spurtle's recent investigation into rubbish problems in Broughton, I feel compelled to write about it further (Breaking news, 9.4.14). Broughton’s rubbish woes seem to go from rubbish to … well more rubbish, and once you point out one problem a dozen more will come to light.
 

Two free workshops will run early next month using First World War artefacts as starting-points for discussion, stories and drama.

Organised by Disability History Scotland (DHS) and run by ACTive Inquiry, the idea is to reflect on how the Great War stimulated change throughout Scottish society.

AMA (New Town) Ltd has applied for planning consent to convert 73 Logie Green Road into 34 residential units with 32 car parking spaces (Ref. 14/01376/FUL).

Locals report that, as feared, ground has begun to slip down the steep bank between the Claremonts and Broughton Road following pre-development preparation work on the narrow strip of land there (Breaking news 11.3.14; 19.3.14).

Rising into the air above Canonmills is this pepperpot turret.