Breaking news

A 19-year-old woman was assaulted and robbed on Bonnington Road yesterday evening.

The incident happened at around 8pm as she walked along, talking on her mobile.

The announcement earlier this week that the Scottish Government will contribute £3.6m towards the upgrade of Leith Walk has been welcomed across north and central Edinburgh. The additional funds should make possible a more comprehensive improvements all the way up the thoroughfare and into Broughton (see greenerleith.org.uk/, 24.9.13).

Anyone seen Lilo?

She headed out from 14 Bellevue Street on Monday (22 September) and hasn't returned since. She likes being outside, but rarely travels far from her home patch – hence the sudden concern.

Lilo is a small tortoiseshell cat with distinctive white markings on her belly and feet. (She has a big white sock on her left hind leg). She also has a white patch on her neck, and a white nose. 

When it comes to sex, the Edinburgh Evening News position can charitably be described as muddled. Arms, legs and gussets everywhere, but no obvious sense of direction.

Look out for a new face popping up at Howe Street’s Bon Papillon.

The sign pictured right appears in the window of Bank, at the St James Centre.

Our thoughts in a nutshell:

DELICIOUS NIBBLY BITS OF NEWS WITH NOWHERE ELSE TO GO

Lamb is my favourite red meat, hands down. Roast has to be lamb, curry has to be lamb, and the pie has always got to be shepherd’s, never cottage.

So when I was invited by Quality Meat Scotland to an afternoon of sharing their new recipes for cooking Scotch Lamb with some Scottish food bloggers, I couldn’t say yes quickly enough!
 

Antony Gormley statues removed from the Water of Leith last year (Breaking news, 5.11.12) may at long last be returned to the river, according to an email released today by the Water of Leith Conservation Trust.

Paul Michael Glaser – best known to the British public as 1970s tight-jeans, fluffy-jumpered and slightly adenoidal US Detective Starsky – is coming to Edinburgh next month.