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This is interesting: the Ingleby Gallery’s virtual viewing room, part of its Instalments series, in which local artist Jessica Harrison describes the thoughts and techniques behind her transformations of found objects.
In this installation, the reworked pieces form two separate series; one playing with Bone China Figures of women, the other with classical statues as pictured and supposedly available in Online Shopping.
Despite Covid, despite shortages of material and skilled labour, despite unexpected ‘utility conflicts’ at key junctions, the Trams to Broughton project is within the £207.3M budget and remains on schedule for revenue service to begin in the spring of 2023.
City of Edinburgh Council is celebrating with a seasonal blizzard of statistics. Since November 2019, it says, the project has:
Congratulations to Paige Conner and staff, who have been voted the Edinburgh’s top hair salon in this year’s Scotland’s Business Awards.
An unknown client nominated the Broughton Street team over the summer, with others offering their own votes and reviews later.
A mystery shopper also visited the salon to verify the quality of the service, and to help whittle down 500 nominations to an elite 40.
Edinburgh Council’s refusal of planning permission to convert 37a and 39 London Street into short-term lets has been upheld.
On 1 December, a reporter appointed by Scottish Ministers dismissed the owner’s appeal against the decision, and also endorsed the Council’s refusal of a change of use for this purpose.
Following high-profile controversies in Westminster last month, Spurtle decided to check closer to home on what our politicians earn outwith the forums to which they were elected.
The following summaries have been compiled on the basis of publicly accessible records in the public domain.
We found nothing that gave us serious cause for concern.
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Police Scotland has released images of a man they believe may be able to assist them in relation to an ongoing investigation into an incident which occurred on Annandale Street, near Broughton Street, Edinburgh around 4pm on Friday, 14 May, 2021.
The man officers wish to speak to is described as white, aged 17–20 years of age and of medium build with short brown hair. He was wearing a yellow high vis jacket, black cargo trousers and work boots.
A Council engagement event played out earlier today in Broughton St Mary’s Parish Church.
It was intended to explain to, and answer questions from, the public about proposals for bin-hubs across Broughton.
Some of those who attended (mostly, we think, in the Edinburgh World Heritage Site) had received postal notification of the event. Others in Broughton received no notification, and depended on publicity from Spurtle and the New Town & Broughton Community Council.
