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Truly astonishing quantities of water fell from the sky and dropped on Broughton yesterday.
The heavens opened at about 6.15pm, and a six-inch-deep pool soon formed behind the diversion barriers on York Place. A medium-sized ocean found its way into the tram-holes beyond, but another then cascaded along Broughton Street at high speed, resulting in the bizarre spectacle of pedestrians and motorists hydroplaning downhill towards London Street.
Anyone else beginning to tire of Broughton's summer damps?
We think we've discovered the perfect antidote. Home and Abroad is an exhibition of sunshine-infused works by husband and wife Joe and Gaye Broadley, currently showing in the Bon Papillon gallery on Howe Street.
Joe is largely self-taught but studied part time at the Glasgow School of Art.
In an ideal world of transparent government in which the powers that be were only too willing to share and explain the facts and figures behind their decisions, we wouldn't need a Freedom of Information Act.
However, as Edinburgh citizens have learned to their cost in recent years, this is far from being an ideal world.
Under the Act's terms, everyone has a legal right to see information from Scottish public authorities.
Hot July brings cooling showers, which is good news for anyone hoping for eternal monsoon season in Spurtleshire. If you close your eyes and imagine really hard, you can pretend you’re in Sri Lanka. (Because they have monsoon season there. Come on, you could have worked that out from the context).
If, on the other hand, you’d rather go oot, there will now follow a not particularly helpful list of things to do and places to go this month. Hold on tight.
Colin Smith – an independent consultant surveyor attached to the Council in order to liaise with contractors and push through Edinburgh's tramworks – addressed the New Town and Broughton Community Council last night.
At a keenly attended meeting, he began by saying that progress had improved enormously since the dark days of January 2011. This had been achieved despite the constraints of a contract whose like he had not seen before in 30 years' professional experience.
Patrick Hutton, New Town and Broughton Community Council's outspoken Transport Convener, has been scathing in recent weeks about the state of the tramworks.
He says the simultaneous shutting of the Mound and Broughton Street smacks of bad planning, describing it as a 'pain in the posterior' and proof that 'the spirit of tie lives on'.
He disapproves of the diversion via East London St, through the chicanes outside St Mary's Primary, then Annandale St and Leith Walk in language we tremble to reproduce in full.
Two of Edinburgh's oldest and best known community news providers have won major funding from the UK innovation foundation Nesta to develop a news and loyalty-card phone application for the capital.
Environmental charity Greener Leith and the Broughton Spurtle – based in adjacent and partly overlapping parts of north/central Edinburgh – teamed up with Edinburgh technology company Tigatag to propose a 'Local Edge' phone app.
Mention the number 208 to most people, and chances are they will immediately think of the 3rd-century leap year in which King Vologases VI succeeded to the throne of Parthia.
Not here in Edinburgh, however, where readers the length and breadth of a former medieval barony are eagerly anticipating the arrival of their July Spurtle.
We can confirm that it is being printed at this very moment and will appear on local streets within hours.
Gullane-based PM Partnership proposes converting a Category A-listed townhouse at 18 Great King Street from office use to form 2 residential units, and to build a new 2-bedroom mews house to the rear on SE Cumberland Street Lane (Refs 12/01954/LBC; 12/01955/FUL).
Being sophisticated metropolitan types, Broughton's citizens are hardly likely to believe crop circles are the work of dancing fairy folk or visiting alien intelligences.
However, locals are short of alternative explanations for a series of mysterious designs which have appeared in the Rodney Street Tunnel between King George V Park and the Broughton Road branch of Tesco.
First noticed at the beginning of last week, 8 extraordinary symbols have been laid out using white gravel against the red hardcore to one side of the footpath/cycleway.