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The City of Edinburgh Council elections are being held today.

Polling stations opened at 7am, and will remain open until 10pm.

An updated phone app has been launched by Edinburgh World Heritage which now guides visitors and locals around the architectural marvels of Broughton Street.

Funded by the Council's Economic Development Department as part of its 'Build Stronger Town Centres' strategy, participants 'are invited to discover a contrast of gothic and classical architecture, including the stunning Mansfield Traquair Centre'.

One of the Planning conditions for Primark winning consent for its new shop at 91–3 Princes Street (Ref. 10/01123/FUL) was the provision of secure/covered cycle parking (see pdf at foot of page).

Spurtle reader Jonathan Finn lives nearby, but despite repeated attempts could not find any such cycle parking around the building on its completion.

Vodafone UK wants to instal 6 Vodafone and O2 antennae  within 4 replacement GRP chimney pots, with associated equipment to be located within an internal cupboard and ancillary development at The Royal Scots Club at 30 Abercromby Place (Ref. 12/01410/FUL; 12/1411/LBC).

We’re tired of going oot, and no doubt you are too. It’s the weather that’s the issue of course – one week it’s gorgeous, the next it snows, and every time we leave the house we must burden ourselves with wellies, suncream, mittens and a snow plough (which is murder on our handbag).
 

Celebrating its 21st birthday in 2012, Discovery Group members at Drummond Community High School have been invited to a special awards ceremony next month writes Birgit Harris.

The Discovery Award is the mature equivalent of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, and people over 50 can get achievement awards in areas of their own interest.

As balmy April gives way to balmy May, what better way to keep yourself warm and informed about all things Broughton than to stick a copy of the new Spurtle up your jumper?

Scotland's LGBT choir Loud & Proud will perform a spring concert next month celebrating the passing of winter and the coming of spring.

'We're excited to be back at the Church Hill theatre after our first ever sell-out performance there in December 2007,' says Karen Dietz (right), the choir's Musical/Artistic Director. 'We have a great spring programme of old (and new) favourites to sing. We're also thrilled that our friends Harmonise [another well-known Edinburgh-based choir] can join us as our special guests.'

The files below explain a national database – Bikeregister.com – on which you can detail your bike and its bits.

Entering your cycle's unique features makes it easier to identify if stolen, and checking a second-hand machine before buying means you can avoid profiting from someone else's misfortune.

The site is approved by the Police – including PC Simon Daley – and is free.

If you've got a bike, what's not to like?

So incensed was the New Town and Broughton Community Council’s Planning Convener by proposals to erect a temporary London Eye-style Ferris wheel in Princes St Gardens this summer that he objected, despite the site falling outwith NTBCC’s allotted area.

John Knight criticised intrusion on views of the Castle and Old Town, and further commercialisation of the garden in contravention of the Council’s Management Plan. Objections were also made by the Old Town Community Council, Old Town Association, Cockburn Association and Edinburgh World Heritage.