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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). 

City Centre councillor Alasdair Rankin is backing moves to set up a new, independent service for Council whistleblowers.

Perhaps buoyed by sunshine, Environment Vice Convener Jim Orr yesterday thanked Edinbugh residents for recycling 38 percent of their waste – a 5 percent increase on last year.

The Council aims to recycle 50 per cent in 2014.

Spurtle has it on good authority that councillors will not after all vote on whether to bring in a trial City Vision at today's meeting of the Transport and Environment Committee.

Councillors had been due to vote on a range of temporary measures including:

If you’ve been toying with the idea of buying a spacious, 'iconic', A-listed church building in the New Town for offers of over £500,000 recently, you’ve probably missed your chance.

The deadline for bids on St Stephen’s Church on St Stephen Street was noon on Friday.

Broughton, meet Ben – guerilla barrista and smiling face of LOCK_UP_COFFEE on Broughton Street Lane (between Picardy Place and Forth Street).