Breaking news

Spurtle photographed a weathered fairy hanging in the rowan tree on Bellevue Place a few days ago, and returned this evening, just as night fell and the Moon rose.

Work began today on the first stages of rebuilding a wall badly damaged last week in Eyre Place. The wall bounds backgreens behind tenements at the top of Canonmills.

These snowy and kinetic scenes have been brightening Rodney Street since the weekend.

Police Scotland have confirmed that they are investigating the theft of a purse from a house in Bellevue Road yesterday.

Spurtle understands from a local reader that two bogus workmen gained access to a property there posing as plasterers.  

Officers later visited nearby residents issuing a description and advising people to be vigilant.

In September we reported refusal of permissionn to knock down  a terraced house at 91 Annandale Street (Ref. 13//02489/FUL; Breaking news, 11.9.13).

We've all done it once, surely?

You go to a Christmas party. You have one or two too many shandies on an empty stomach.

Then on your way home you suddenly find your trousers have fallen off and you can't work out how to put them back on again. Nothing seems to make sense any more.

Henderson Global Investors (HGI) aired outline proposals for Picardy Place on Friday at a well-attended 5.5-hour drop-in session held at Café Camino.

Spare a thought for Lara Mitchell of Napier Bathrooms and Interiors in Canonmills.

The Glasgow School of Art graduate is the resident interior designer here, and delights in fashioning the store’s distinctive window displays.

A week has passed since Spurtle first reviewed the joint Christmas Exhibition at Broughton Street’s Union Gallery.

The sun keeps rising in and around Broughton at this time of year, and locals continue playing their merry organs as usual.

But as for the running of the deer, we haven't seen much sign of it.