An item of "Breaking News". Will appear on the Breaking News page and the front page.
In Issue 181 we reported the arrest, in March, of two Bonnington Rd men for alleged involvement in a card skimming and cloning scam.
On Friday 2 July the pair were found guilty and jailed for two-and-a-half years.
When police had visited the men's flat they found a 'factory' complete with computer programs, specialist equipment for making counterfeit cards, and false fascias for cashpoint machines,
Princes Street will be closed westbound this weekend to allow 'remedial works' and 'tram maintenance'.
From 7pm on Friday 2 July to 5am on Monday 5 July, westbound buses will divert via George Street.
Click here for details.
A new two-person figurative exhibition will show at Broughton Street's Union Gallery from 1 July to 2 August. It features the work of two outstanding Scottish talents: Dylan Lisle and Patsy McArthur.
Both artists trained at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. Lisle's 'mastery of technique – married to his contemporary vision – creates work of beauty, serenity and mystery,' says Union's Rob Dawkins (see 'Knowledge' right). This is the largest body of his work to appear in Edinburgh for around eight years.
The newly refurbished Glenogle Baths were unveiled today to an invited audience of Councillors, Council officials, local people who had campaigned for the Baths to be saved, and press.
Tomorrow, members of the public can sample all the facilities free (for one day only). A timetable and price list are available at the foot of the page here.
The culprits disobligingly took off as soon as Spurtle's roving eye on the sky whipped out his camera this morning, but there's no mistaking the evidence. Eleven railing-mounted bin bags on the short western section of Fettes Row had been torn open by gulls, the contents strewn across the pavement.
The development will come as a blow to New Town residents who believed using railings would be a simple, free alternative to containerisation as a means of deterring pests. Clearly it is not.
The Edinburgh Association of Community Councils held its ninth AGM on 21 June, and Spurtle acquired the draft minutes on the last day of the month (see Extras 1.7.10).
Big-hearted pupils from Drummond Community High School have been working with two local care homes to bring happiness and companionship to elderly residents, writes Susan Lambert, a principal teacher at the school.
[img_assist|nid=913|title=|desc=|link=node|align=right|width=200|height=150]The S5 and S6 pupils have been visiting Porthaven and Clermiston care homes regularly over the past year to socialise and interact with the older people.
City of Edinburgh Council communication officers are keen to raise awareness of recycling opportunities across the capital, and have contacted Spurtle with the results of a recent survey.
Researchers interviewed 900 visitors to Edinburgh’s 4 Community Recycling Centres (CRCs). They discovered that Sighthill is the least well known CRC, and that Seafield is the best known. They also discovered that the 'average' visitor was a 49-year-old male. (Spurtle suspects he was wearing his socks and pants inside out to minimise washing-machine cycles.)
In Issue 184 we reported Andrew Dickie's spectacular new addition to the list of late late-presented Christmas trees.
Here it is in all its splendour, as snapped at the scene on West Annandale Street.
In Issue 184 we reported the rose garden at the corner of Bellevue Place, officially owned by the Council, unofficially maintained and repaired at her own expense by local resident Christina Thomson.
It's a feast for the senses, and bees.