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The Friends of Hillside and Calton meet next on Mon. 31 January (6:30pm, Royal Terrace Hotel), when they will discuss improvements to Hillside Crescent Garden.
Organisers are delighted that a representative of the energy company Infinis will also attend, and intends to present the voluntary group with a cheque to help them in their work.
Traffic disruption may continue around Bellevue until 14 February (and possibly longer) as work continues to widen pavements and install a new Puffin crossing.
Traffic lights will be in place on Sunday 30 January and 6 February, from 9:00am–5:00pm.
Leith Neighbourhood Partnership (LNP) is at the early stages of drawing up its Local Community Plan for the period 2011–14, and it wants locals to decide what the top five priorities should be.
Controversial plans for a new house on Hart Street have returned to the planning process despite earlier Council approval.
A Broughton 'elephant' at the centre of Issue 190's competition is still eluding capture.
Readers are invited to send us a note of its location. The first correct entry drawn from the shoogly hat will win a £10 book token.
Staff and students at Drummond Community High School – and members of the community – are gearing up for a sponsored walk/run during the morning of Friday 1 April.
The venue will be Holyrood Park and organisers are looking for local people, businesses, classes and groups to take part.
Funds raised will go towards the £15,000 needed to bring pupils from Drummond's partner schools in Muthambi, Kenya over to Edinburgh this summer.
Hats off to the Edinburgh Evening News which on 17 January published a priceless parody of an unquestioningly reprinted Tesco press release. Alas, the author's name was not given.
Tesco opened on Picardy Place yesterday.
Spurtle witnessed no spontaneous outpourings of joy across Broughton. No enthusiastic crowds queued outside overnight in freezing conditions to be among the first inside.
When we went for a neb mid-afternoon, there were four customers – vastly outnumbered by staff scanning barcodes as if their lives depended upon it. Someone we took for a store detective stood rooted to the spot. He smiled dreamily into space. Perhaps he was thinking of a delicatessen.
The Edinburgh World Heritage Trust seeks renewed Climate Challenge Funding (part of the Scottish Government's 'Sustainable Action Fund') to combat 'fuel poverty' in the Old and New Towns.
All commercial galleries tread a fine line between indulging their own taste and marketing works that sell. Happily, the Union Gallery on Broughton Street has a knack of combining the two without compromising on quality.
Their latest exhibition (which runs until 14 February) is called 'Small and Perfectly Crafted'. All the works on show are modestly sized and moderately priced. That aside, the pieces – by over 20 contemporary artists – have little in common. There is an exciting range of approaches which defies simple categorisation. It is easier to concentrate on four favourites.