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Leith Central Community Council has sought to calm the storm over Leith Walk renovations which blew up before Christmas.

How is your head?

If the combination of recent meeting and greeting, central heating and over-eating has once again reduced it to the size of a pickled walnut, now is the time to give it an improving work-out.
 

Spurtle rose bright and early today, and embarked upon 2014 with the customary clear head and clean conscience.

We recorded our brisk constitutional using a camera, and now present some of the more focused, random impressions of Broughton the morning after the night before.

Tim Smith – Spurtle's chief cycling correspondent and grammarian – has a dark secret.

He devises puzzles.

The Broughton Spurtle is now officially Christmased-out.

We shall be taking a festive rest for the next few days before returning with online news updates at some as-yet-to-be-resolved non-festive point after 26 December.

Staff at Ampersand Interiors on Dublin Street have been looking forward to Christmas for weeks.

Their window shows a period fireplace, stockings prepped and ready, and a little something for Father Christmas and his reindeer to keep them going on the big night.

When it comes to Christmas foxes, Broughton Street struggles to compete with Jay Perkins’s Christmas lightshow this year.

It will surpise few to learn that the City of Edinburgh Council has granted planning permission to the City of Edinburgh Council for a new, 2-storey modular classroom building in the playground of Broughton Primary School (Ref. 13/04456/FUL). 

The Rodney Street Tunnel may not be the most obvious of Broughton's attractions, but it's well worth a passing trip at the moment.

Local residents are lucky in the number and quality of eating places in this corner of north-central Edinburgh. Friendly but ferocious culinary competition means the barony hosts some of the finest restaurants, cafés and carry-outs in the capital.