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This building in the leafy lane behind 8, Bellevue Crescent is raising hackles in the New Town Conservation Area.

Fiona Booth works in Broughton, lives in Broughton, and cooks in Broughton. She also writes her own food blog for fun – Fifi Goes Nom! – which Spurtle enjoys so much we decided to pinch bits of it here on a monthly basis. To visit Fiona's site in its mouthwatering entirety, follow the link at the foot of this page. 

This rather splendid wedding party made the most of bright and breezy spring weather this afternoon.

Bystanders applauded, taxis honked, and traffic slowed to gawp as the large group processed down Broughton and London Streets before crossing the road and on into the Mansfield Traquair Centre.

Don’t ask us why, but it seems to be the season for Lothian Bus routes through Broughton at the moment.

 Two children's bikes spotted on East Scotland Street Lane yesterday evening were still there this lunchtime.

A good Samaritan has handed them in at Gayfield Police Station (Gayfield Square), where they are now helping with enquiries.

Leith Neighbourhood Partnership is seeking input from local residents, workers, students and visitors to help establish up to 20 issues for the Council and Police to focus on during the next three-month period. The idea is to identify outcomes which would make you and your community feel safer.

A maximum of six (divided equally between Leith and Leith Walk Wards) will then be chosen by members of the public at the forthcoming Feeling Safe Community Forum meeting. 

Edinburgh residents lucky enough to live in a Controlled Parking Zone or Priority Parking area now have an opportunity to tell the Council how much they enjoy the experience.

This A-board portrait outside Artisan Roast on Broughton Street is, according to a slightly scrambled caption, the result of drinking 10 espressos.  

Passers-by have been left pleasantly bewildered this week by the sight of one particular tree in the bottom garden below Mansfield Place.

It's been 'bombed'.

Did you know that vines produce a kind of berry?  

Spurtle didn't, until the arrival of a new design on the A-board outside Villeneuve Wines on Broughton Street (see below).

We applaud theis shop's intermittent forays into Education, but on this occasion were left thirsting for more.