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Tesco Stores Ltd has applied for non-compliance with Condition 1 of its current planning permission (Ref. 09/00039/FUL) to extend delivery and collection hours at its Broughton Road store (Ref. 14/01866/FUL).

We loved this modest work’s massive simplicity.

Ian Runciman’s watercolour ‘Elephant’ is one of 15 works in the Flora and Fauna exhibition at the Gallery on the Corner.

Staff and students from Edinburgh College’s Institute of Constructive Crafts, the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust and Historic Scotland are among those in St Andrew Square today and tomorrow as part of Scottish Apprenticeship Week.

With summer on its way the days are finally getting longer, and while the weather isn't quite hot (yet!) it's time for dinners to get lighter which for me means less carbs.  I'm usually happier when stockpiling rice and pasta, but this dish does that magical thing of making me not miss the missing carbs so much. In fact, it’s the only carb-less meal that I actually look forward to.

On a brief walk earlier today we encountered this suprising  geographical cluster of delinquent youths. Do you recognise their location?

The first young person (right) is not too bad at first glance. But look again, and there is something disturbingly adult about his expression. He looks like the kind of child who will, after mature consideration, ‘accidentally’ push the electric fire into Daddy’s bathwater.

Finding a parking space in Broughton these days is like finding a parking space in Broughton. It's near-on impossible and you end up repeating yourself continuously as you go round the bend.

Over 200 people packed into Edinburgh Academy last night for a Scottish Independence debate organised by Stockbridge and Inverleith Community Council.

What follows is an impressionistic summary, not a complete transcript. Spurtle has no settled position on the Independence question, and has been at pains not to favour one side or party over any other in this account.  

A Google-mobile has been spotted in Broughton.

Last Friday’s ShipShape Elm project, which saw 75 volunteers blitz graffiti, stickers and fly-posting in and around Elm Row, has been hailed as a great success (Breaking news, 5.5.14).

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).