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The Category A-listed Playhouse Theatre on Greenside Place has applied for planning consent to construct a temporary covered walkway and staircase (Ref. 12/03983/LBC).
The purpose is to facilitate the surprise release of costumed cast members into the audience during performances of The Lion King, at some unspecified date.
Residents, family, friends and staff are gathering this afternoon at the Letham Park Care Home on Ferry Road to open a new patio garden.
South-facing, and protected from the wind by a high wall, it is a green haven for those craving fresh air. Bill Fraser (pictured right with Manager Alison Cavender), steps outside to watch the rabbits and smoke a pipe three or four times a day 'come rain or shine'. He loves it here.
The Union Gallery's Christmas Exhibition features a mixture of new and familiar works by artists whose works have shown here before over the past three-and-a-half years.
It's an unashamedly upbeat and approachable collection, which should do well as customers decide either to treat friends or to ride out the recession by ignoring them and staying indoors with something beautiful on the wall. Described below are a few personal favourites.
She is currently baking a lurgie.
We hope to have her cured in plenty of time for Christmas.
Readers may have noticed flyers on lamp-posts across Broughton last week appealing for information about the whereabouts of an extraordinary-looking Bengal cat called Olli.
He had gone missing from his home in Dublin Street North on 11 November, and all searches and enquiries had drawn a blank. His owners were concerned since he had been living with them in Madrid recently, and perhaps had not regained his sense of Edinburgh direction.
When most people imagine a coral atoll, they mostly think of sparkling seas and blue skies, of white beaches and the wind singing gently through the tops of the palm trees. Reality, though, is rarely perfect.
New to Broughton – Life Story is apparently set to open this afternoon.
Interested locals report a flurry of comings and goings, last-minute arrivals and departures, speculative parking, a palpable sense of anticipation.
Based in the former Moviebank (the former former Post Office) at 53 London Street, the store promises 'a unique shopping experience'.
A long-running domestic planning saga appears to have reached its end.
The Council has granted consent for a scheme to redesign internal arrangements and, crucially, increase the amount of daylight entering a top-floor flat on Bellevue Terrace (Ref. 12/03250/LBC).
Deep breaths, everyone ... perhaps take a sip of water while you still can.
Tramworks scheduled for the next few weeks 'have the potential to impact on traffic flows, pedestrian access and utility services to properties' in the East End of the city.
They are as follows:
19 November (11pm–6.30am)
1 York Place / 4–19 North St Andrew Street/34–42 St Andrew Square / 1–15 Multrees Walk
Water interruption
20 November
York Place
The Scottish Government yesterday launched a map breaking down the incidence of Scottish house fires by postcode. We look at these from a Spurtleshire perspective, i.e. those areas in which we report, distribute or take a keen, neighbourly interest.
In 2011–12, four areas of Edinburgh were in the worst category, suffering 70 or more fires. They were: EH4, EH6 (Leith and Newhaven), EH7 (between central Edinburgh and Leith) and EH14.
The EH1 area (including the St James Centre, Leith and Broughton Streets) suffered between 10 and 14 fires.