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City of Edinburgh Council today announced plans to integrate the capital's transport system under a new organisation called Transport for Edinburgh (TfE).

To begin with, Lothian Buses and Edinburgh Trams will run TfE, with the company's operating structure, 15-year financial model and tram-operating agreement going before a full Council meeting next week.

'There is potential' for the new body to oversee cycling, pedestrian and other issues in future.

The financial model envisages:

Community activist Keith Hales put up some St George's Cross bunting outside his business on Leith Walk this morning.

Pomegranate Restaurant's retrospective planning application for changes to its B-listed  premises at 1 Antigua Street has been 'refused' with a recommendation to 'enforce' (Ref. 13/02520/LBC). 

When Spurtle repeated a publicist's local angle on a visiting performer last week (Breaking news, 2.8.13), we did so with a healthy dollop of scepticism. Donal O'Kelly, we thought, was probably not spending his every waking hour offstage in Broughton.

Expect street parties and heritage-compliant bunting.

City of Edinburgh's Planning Subcommittee yesterday voted to accept a new Pilrig Conservation Area.

It's the time of year when Edinburgh loves to welcome visitors.

Christina Thomson recently found this swallowtail moth outside her backdoor on Bellevue Place.

Depending on whom you believe, ourapteryx sambucarla (one of this country's largest moths with a wingspan of 40–50mm) is rare outwith July in Norfolk, or common everywhere except in the north of Scotland.

Furore may be too strong a word for it, but a spat at least has broken out concerning the new exterior revamp at Tesco on Broughton Road. Bike campaigners say it’s not good enough.

When Kevin Low exhibited at the Union Gallery in April last year (Breaking news, 9.4.12), many of his imagined frauds, thespians and freaks seemed on the brink of disaster.

Admirers of typographic pavement embellishment were surprised and disappointed yesterday afternoon by events on Broughton Street.

A man with a high-pressure hose was busy removing the multiple COFFEEs outside Artisan Roast at No 57.

Spurtle receives theatrical press releases by the bucketload at this time of year. Most of them sound brilliant, few have any outstandingly particular relevance to life as it's lived in this former medieval barony situated just to the north of the city centre.