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Batleys Ltd – trading as the Bellevue Cash & Carry at 30 McDonald Place – seeks retrospective planning permission to extend its trading hours to 7am–8pm, Mon.–Sat. and 8.30am–12pm, Sun. (Ref. 12/02594/FUL).
Present managers have until recently been ‘unaware’ that a Class 3 condition consented in 1988 was very much more restrictive: 8am–10pm, Mon.–Fri.; 8am–12pm, Sat.; and no trading on Suns.
Bellevue photographer Alicia Bruce (right) is having a busy Festival, with pictures in exhibitions at Out of the Blue and the College of Art’s Tent Gallery, as well as sharing her skills with children in the Portrait Gallery and young people in Wester Hailes.
Following its emergency meeting with councillors and officials on 6 August (see Breaking news, 8.8.12), the New Town and Broughton Community Council has issued a list summarising areas of agreement.
We list the 14 action points, unedited, below:
'My pictures have no hidden meaning. To understand, all you have to do is look.'
So writes John McLean in the disarmingly clear, five-sentence catalogue description of his paintings at the Union Gallery this month.
Zonal Retail Data Systems (ZRDS) seek planning permission at 14–16 Union Street (Refs 12/02591/FUL; 12/02598/LBC; 12/02599/CON) to demolish an existing 2-storey structure and to construct a 'new traditional' 3.5-storey office development in its place (see artist's impression right).
I would like to say that I’ve been able to keep my cool and my distance from the Olympic fever that’s invaded the country, but who am I kidding?
After a spectacular weekend for Team GB last weekend, I’ve been feeling inspired. A red, white and blue recipe was therefore inevitable. Hopefully, you’ll think it’s worthy of a medal.
This version of a roulade is made with a meringue base so it should be as light as air.
Villeneuve's manager Carrie Pruitt Bond is disarmingly modest about her design for the wineshop's A-board on Broughton Street.
'It was a spur of the moment thing,' she says, looking surprised that anyone should bother to tell her they like it.
Spur of the moment? Spurtle begs to differ. We think it suggests forethought, effort and considerable artistry (whatever the stick people may say).
Send us your favourite examples of Broughton's welcome pavement clutter, and a few words explaining why.
Monday night's emergency session of the New Town and Broughton Community Council to discuss York Place tram works diversions suggests that the tram team has learned lessons about presentation from the last meeting (Breaking news, 3.7.12), writes David Sterratt.
'Holiday' is a term that exists in every man's mind, writes Felix Kimathi, a former pupil at Drummond CHS's partner Muthambi Boys' School in Kenya. Many dream of a day when they will celebrate it in the best place ever.
If Spurtle's distribution were an Olympic event, it would be the 3,000m steeplechase: frequent, apparently insuperable challenges interspersed by bouts of exhaustion and occasional soakings.