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A Broughton Street resident is so annoyed at trade waste piling up outside and under her home, and so despairing of Edinburgh Council finding a solution unaided, that she has organised an online petition calling on Mark Lazarowicz MP to force changes.
The Leith Feeling Safe Community Forum (FSCF) will meet on 30 November to establish up to six new priorities for Police and Council workers to focus on in the Leith Neighbourhood Partnership area from December 2013 to March 2014. (This area contains much of what is properly considered Pilrig and Broughton south of Pilrig Street.)
Maybe it’s the weather. Maybe it’s the time of year or the state of the economy. Whatever it is, there’s a noticeable appetite for escapism round here at the moment.
Crombie’s are feeling seasonal with this Halloween window display (right), presumably promoting Lucifer’s Matchsticks. The shop is reputed to have spooky basement secrets so terrifying that even grown butchers refuse to talk about them. We can vouch for the wall of silence on this matter.
A young cat – about 4 months old – was found meaowing and hungry in Warriston last night.
He has been fed since and is safe, but the good samaritan responsible now seeks the original owner.
The latest development proposals (Refs 13/01070/FUL and 13/01071/LBC) for the land at Shrubhill will go to committee on 23 October with a recommendation for approval, writes local resident Christopher Gray (see
This Kojak lookalike has been turning heads in Canonmills lately.
Getting clean for Halloween, the skeleton reclines in the window of Napier Bathrooms & Interiors – notable for its Halloween displays since removal here from over the road almost 3 years ago.
New post-tramwork traffic arrangements mean only bicycles, trams and buses will be allowed on Princes Street between South St David and South Charlotte Streets (apart from a short crossing between the Mound and Hanover Street).
We’ve been out and about in central Broughton today.
We braved rain, and two celebrities who managed to evade the Spurtle lens by the simple expedient of standing still while we tried to film and stroll past nonchalantly at the same time.
We will spare you the resulting images of a well-filled raincoat’s steamy inside.
Have you reached the stage where your darling and intelligent child has learnt everything there is to know about wrecking your house and/or relationship and now needs to be fixed by professional educators?
A steady stream of locals has contacted Spurtle this week, concerned by the felling of trees at the top end of Drummond Community High School playground.
In fact concerned does not come close to describing the reactions of some, who have been deeply upset by the loss of such well-loved local landmarks.