Breaking news

GVA Grimley Ltd will hold a public pre-application consultation event to show proposals for the redevelopment of Picardy Place on Friday 6 December. It will take place in Café Camino from 2.00–7.30pm.

The plates reproduced here of a redbreast and partridge are two of 59 beautiful hand-painted engravings which appear in A History of British Birds by the Rev. F.O. Morris. 

It’s snowing in the barony tonight!

And not just blizzards of Planning controversy.

In Crombie’s of Broughton Street they’ve got drifts of real polystyrene bombarding a trio of real artificial snowmen and a fake fir in a genuine reproduction Georgian lampholder.

We love it.

These are lively times in the planning stushie over 154 McDonald Road (Ref. 13/02458/FUL; Breaking news, 6 November).

Spurtle has hooked up with the King's Theatre this year, where Allan Stewart, Grant Stott and Andy Gray are swashing and buckling in a lavish new production of the classic Peter Pan.

This evening's festive snapshot comes from Those Were the Days – the basement vintage clothing boutique on St Stephen's Street.

We were struck by the prettiness of the tree, the cosiness of the light, the pleasantly cluttered desk and half-drunk cup of tea.

Martinez Antiques have done it again, producing a wonderful glittering invitation each evening between 5pm and 11pm in the run-up to Christmas.

Issue 225 is published and copies are now spreading across Broughton as fast as our squads of goosefat-smeared distributors can carry them.

There’s a problem with the group Christmas Exhibition at Broughton Street’s Union Gallery. At least from this reviewer’s point of view.

Whisky Kiss are a Broughton-based souped-up ceilidh band who've been enjoying growing success at home and abroad for the last four years.