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Drummond Community High School is a hub of multinational, multicultural and multilingual activity in Edinburgh. Here, Birgit Harris (Community Education Manager) tells us about the school’s Cultural Peer Project, which has gone from strength to strength over recent years.
Reader John Ellis has been enjoying Spurtle’s coverage of recent changes at the Stag’s Head on Broughton Road/Rodney Street (Issue 219, p.2).
In particular, the phrase ‘murky authenticity’ has struck a chord.
‘I’ve always felt,’ writes Mr Ellis, that there was something suspicious about the creature on the pub’s sign’.
D.J. Tierney was surprised to find Jessica Rabbit on a recent visit to Broughton, and phoned to tell us about it.
The image – enhanced in these photos but harder to make out and not obviously oriented in reality – appears on paving stones outside the community garden on Barony Place.
Foremost Properties (Scotland) LLP’s proposals for 67 Colony-style and flatted dwellings at land 35m southwest of 132 McDonald Road have been granted planning consent (Ref.
Discerning, thought-provoking, pre-trend and with a nice line in self-deprecating humour, I Like Local has recently arrived in South East Spurtleshire via Århus, Dublin and Lisbon.
Work will start tomorrow to install underground, overground, Wombling-free tram cables in the city centre.
Scotland's summers may occasionally be bright, but they're rarely proper warm. What could be more appropriate, then, than this woollen jewellery collection by Portobello-based Lyndsey Walters – June's 'Makar of the Month' at Concrete Wardrobe.
A cross-party team of Edinburgh councillors will take part in tomorrow night's Moonwalk to raise money for breast cancer research and support.
Up the Garden Path, with the phrase’s suggestion of wasted effort, is an odd title for the latest show at the Union Gallery on Broughton Street. Far from offering disappointments, this summery joint exhibition – themed loosely on what grows, crawls, hunts or flits close to but outside our homes – is of uniformly high standard.
The Watkin Jones Group (WJG) seeks a variation to their planning application (Ref. 08/01365/FUL) to deliver a reconfigured residential mix at the former 11 Logie Green Road (Ref. 13/01990/PAN).