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Dozens of unopened defrosted ready-meals and other dry foodstuffs dumped in Bellevue last week have left locals irritated, bemused and disgusted.

Irritated – because they made an unnecessary mess in the street. Bemused – because they were dumped right next to a wheelie bin rather than inside it. Disgusted – because the packets were still within their use-by dates, at a time when more and more local families are being forced to use food banks.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has submitted concurrent Planning applications for its site at 7, 11–13 Eyre Terrace.

An unconfirmed story circulating in Broughton suggests that the new owner of St Stephen’s Church is either the Edinburgh-based video game designer Rockstar North or a senior director there acting in a private capacity.

Broughton-based artist Hatti Pattisson will be exhibiting new work at 25 Howe Street later this month (12–17 April).

Prana is the Sanskrit word for ‘life force’, which cosmic energy seems to have inspired (and fuelled) Margaret Halliday’s three epic journeys around the Indian subcontinent as described in her first book Prana Soup: an Indian Odyssey, published recently.

Happy days, Spurtle Readers!

Recognising you as the sort of discerning customers any business would be proud to have more of, the Magnum Bar and Restaurant on Albany Street is offering a 15% discount on orders with food between now and the end of May.*

Edinburgh Printmakers have secured £5m from the Heritager Lottery Fund to redevelop Castle Mills in Fountainburdge as a world-class contemporary arts centre specialising in printmaking, it was announced today.

When the in-laws came to visit recently, we planned to go out for a nice, relaxing, Sunday lunch. Little did I know what I was getting myself into, or that it would leave me plucked and scared for the rest of my days. 

Readers have been fascinated by the progress of 19-year-old local athlete and former Drummond CHS pupil Kimberley Reed.