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The Council's parks unit, responsible for the recent revamp of the play area in King George V Park, has received a complaint from a resident who believes that the terrace of steps alongside the big slide is a dangerous innovation, writes Judy Conn, Secretary of the Friends of King George V and Scotland Yard Parks.

Sculptor Barbara Franc’s work – which shows at the Union Gallery on Broughton Street this month – embodies a paradox.

At one level, she has an uncanny ability to model complete, living and moving beings: wonderful hares and prancing horses, birds of all shapes and sizes, mischievous squirrels, stags chewing, swans, stately and serene.

At another level, she manages to reduce these creations into their component inorganic parts.

They say witches come out in all weathers, and this is indeed true in Broughton! writes Broughton Project Group secretary Meg Nelson.

A Family Halloween Party, run by the BPG, attracted many a witch, spider, Batman and skeleton to the Barony Community Garden last Thursday 31 October as night fell.

Pupils from Broughton Primary School launched their own book yesterday at the National Library of Scotland.

Crabbit Tales – two stories about feelings – was co-written by 51 P7 children with the help of local author Mary Turner Thomson. Starting in June, Thomson also guided them through the processes of planning, illustrating and publishing.

Is this Spurtleshire's spookiest front door?

The Bridge Place flat on the edge of Stockbridge is the focus of many strange artistic adornments to nearby walls and pavements.

Within a few metres are inexplicable boots, faces, leaves, cogs, and an unsettling salamander scuttling for admission.

Spurtle’s November issue is nearly here.

In it you will find: swarms, a heron, an invisible beastie, a mere hare, a meerkat, doggy teeth, pussy whiskers and a screeching gannet with gynaecological undertones.

On the menu this week for the first time at L'Escargot Bleu is possibly the finest beef in the world. Certainly, it's the best chef Fred Berkmiller has ever tasted, and it comes from Japan via Perthshire

An application to build a 2-storey mews house in Northumberland Street North West Lane has been withdrawn (Ref. 13/04398/FUL).