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Surely, nothing is more irritating than metropolitan lifestyle journalists dipping their oh-so-delicate toes into the too-hot-too-cold-too-tepid waters of life outwith London. Every week they get it all wrong. Every weekend, readers from John O'Groats to Land's End relax in a righteous froth of indignation at London-based ignorance and misrepresentation.
Leith Central Community Council will back the former Bonnington Primary School as a stand-alone centre for primary-level, Gaelic-medium education (GME) in the capital.
Members voted to support the proposal at their meeting on 21 February.
Spurtle staff are busy dotting the ts and crossing the last of their is as Issue 192 nears completion today.
We expect to print on Monday, ready for distribution on Tuesday throughout Broughton's pubs, clubs, hair salons, barbers and pet parlours, cafés, eateries, tooth extracteries, galleries, fishmongers, green grocers, schools, gift shops, bookshops, library, surgeries, mosque, church vestibules and other good newsagents. And, of course, direct to the doors and inboxes of loyal subscribers.
Full details, background papers, plans and drawings are now available for the controversial proposal to mount mobile telephone antennae on Dundas Street's Centrum House (Ref. 11/00334/FUL).
Elevation A – the first pdf at the link above – makes it clear that Vodafone and 02 are not proposing a new Post Office Tower at the gateway to the Edinburgh World Heritage Site.
This year a new Wider Achievement Opportunity – The John Muir Award – was introduced in Drummond Community High School. Student Bilal Shahid tells Spurtle all about it.
John Muir was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of what we now know as conservation. The award itself was launched by the John Muir Trust in 1997 to promote Muir’s message of preserving and exploring the wilderness.
Independent Leith Walk traders were left stunned yesterday – almost speechless – at news that yet another supermarket may open soon in Broughton.
The Cooperative Group has applied for planning permission to convert the former Hopetoun Bar Diner at 8 McDonald Road (Ref. 11/00435/FUL) into a Class 1 retail unit ('convenience store').
It may feel as if this winter will never end, but there's light at the end of the tunnel.
A wander around the Botanic Gardens yesterday afternoon, in fitful shafts of sunshine, revealed this uplifting sight.
Where balmy Inverleith goes, Baltic Broughton will evenutually follow. Chin up, everyone!
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Contact the Elderly is a national charity running a national 'Campaign to End Loneliness' this week. Since 1965 it has believed reaching out to those experiencing social isolation in older age – and their helpers – can have major benefits.
The group's plan of action is simple, effective and rather touchingly British. It arranges monthly tea parties for small groups of older people and other volunteers within their community. By this means, people of all ages are brought together, making friendships and networks of support.
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Brief biographical details provided by his family say that he '... attended school and lived at a psychiatric hospital. He was good at individual sporting pursuits such as walking, swimming, trampolining and riding.
Union Gallery's new exhibition features the work of two Edinburgh-based artists who approach 'Being Human' from quite different angles.
Audrey Grant began as a painter in the early 1990s with a Foundation Course at the Leith School of Art. Since then – particularly since 2006 when she won a Visual Arts Creative Development Grant from the Scottish Arts Council – her work has met with increasing attention and acclaim. She is, suspects Union's Bob Dawkins, on the cusp of major recognition from national institutions.