Breaking news

A developer’s appeal against an Enforcement notice on his East Scotland Street Lane studio dwelling was finally dismissed yesterday (Ref. ENA-230-281; see pdf at foot of page).

Broughton Road residents are dismayed that contractors have begun felling trees on the wooded strip between their backgreens (Nos 32–62), Heriot Hill and the Claremonts (see map below).

In Dark Arcadias at the Union Gallery this month, Edinburgh painter Keith Epps examines what he describes disarmingly as ‘one of the least original ideas in art – Et in Arcadia Ego – where the dark and painful exist within the light and beautiful.’

The trigger for this sequence (24 works) was TV coverage of the 1990s Yugoslav Wars. Here, Epps found it ‘hard to equate those ghastly events happening within such a beautiful setting’.

Those readers who since June 2011 may have begrudged the expensive perfection of Broughton’s road to nowhere – East Scotland Street Lane (Issues 193

Canon Street-based charity Hearts & Minds will host a Vintage Fashion Show on 26 March to raise funds and publicise its work across Scotland with people suffering from dementia.

The event – to be held in the café at the Scottish National Gallery on the Mound – will involve fun, fashion, music, cakes, sandwiches, tea, coffee and proseco. 

Spurtle has received clarification on the Council’s consultation process regarding plans to semi-pedestrianise George Street, create a one-way system and two-way cycle path (Issue 227).

It's definitely brighter in the mornings, and there have been entire days of sunshine, so Spring must be around the corner. Which means it’s almost time to pack away the comfort food recipes for another six months and start eating lighter. 
 
Rubbish!
 

Richard Rennie, an Easter Road resident, has written to councillors and the Council’s Planning Department objecting to Forrest Group Ltd’s application for retrospective consent to an internally illuminated digital display advertisement at 10 Croall Place (Ref. 14/00624/ADV). 

The frequently venueless lads and lassies of Broughton St Mary's Scouts (Breaking news, 3.2.14; Issue 227) held their Sochi-inspired winter camp at Loch Morlich recently.

I arrived home from work one night in December to find that my blue recycling box, which I’d left on the kerbside earlier that day, had disappeared.

Where had it gone? I suspected that the strong winds were responsible. I looked up and down the street and I even made accusing glances at any boxes lying in neighbours' gardens. Had someone stolen my box? It was nowhere to be seen and the disappearance left me slightly puzzled.