Breaking news

Leith Walk councillor Louise Lang has announced that she will not seek re-election in May next year.

City of Edinburgh Council Planning officials have approved the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) pre-application notification of plans to redevelop 7, 11 and 13 Eyre Terrace.

Protestors have written to City of Edinburgh Council's Chief Executive Sue Bruce in a last-ditch effort to stop the felling of mature trees around Canonmills Bridge (see Breaking news, 11.11.11).

We reproduce it below, in full, without editing.

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Updates

Felling of trees at Canonmills has stopped, at least for now, while City of Edinburgh officials assess apparent anomalies in their own paperwork.

The Fettes Row Association – a residents group including Royal Crescent – meets tonight for its 40th annual general meeting.

John Knight – the Association's founding secretary will present a 'not too serious' review of the street and the group, highlighting the many changes which have occurred since 1971. It is worth noting that a residents group which lasts even 10 years is rather remarkable, so this long-standing example of local commitment is truly worth celebrating.

The meeting convenes at 7.30pm at 1 Fettes Row.

The City of Edinburgh Council has recently published for consultation its 'Edinburgh Local Development Plan: Main Issues Report'.

As you might expect, the most amusing thing about the document is its title. Nevertheless, it's an important report for anyone interested in shaping Edinburgh's development and land use now rather than simply whingeing about them later.

We like this modest piece of street-art, spotted at the top of Broughton Street.

The sticky-looking intruder raises interesting questions about anticipation, hesitation, decision and action.

Its unrealised sting complicates the black-and-yellow space of the fascia designed to speed pedestrian motion. It re-complicates the requirement to 'cross with care'.

We don't say it's great art, we don't say it's the most profound philosophy ever, but it pleases and it does enough to provoke consideration.

Leith Central Community Council will next convene on 21 November at 7.30pm in McDonald Road Library. However, business at its monthly meeting will be curtailed in order to allow time for a consideration of the life and contribution of the late Stewart Blaik.

Memories of and tributes to LCCC's founding Chairman appear here on the Edinburgh Association of Community Councils website.

Leith's 10-day community arts festival will not take place in 2012. Loss of charitable and local-authority funding streams means that even Leith's 100-year-old Gala Day and Pageant – scheduled for Saturday 9 June 2012 – is 'unlikely to go ahead without an injection of finance, ideas and local support'.

These were the stark facts put out by the Festival's Board yesterday, which is now calling for Leithers to come to its aid.

We thank all those readers who have contacted us this afternoon to enquire whether the Edinburgh Evening News has thanked us in private for what they failed to acknowledge in public: that their front-page and main stories today derive in large part from yesterday's online coverage in the Spurtle. They have not.

If at first you don't succeed, plan, plan again. The top-floor flat-dweller at 4 Bellevue Terrace whose proposals bit the dust after a protracted struggle earlier this year (Breaking news, 26.9.11) has – with commendable determination and no little optimism – returned to the fray.