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How to explain this, spotted two days ago at the end of Iona Street?
The news has grown increasingly weird over recent years, but this is probably not evidence of an alien abduction.
Coronavirus has brought out the worst and best in people over the last few weeks, but this is probably not a sign that revellers attending illegal raves are taking off their shoes so as not to disturb residents on the way home.
DARING ROBBERY.
It is with regret, that we have to record another of those daring outrages which have of late been the disgrace of our city.
On Thursday night, about twelve o’clock, a gentleman who resides in Broughton Place was knocked down on his way home, in the lane which branches off from the east side of Elder Street,[1] and robbed of his watch and five pounds.
Feast your eyes!
The Spurtle website has had a major upgrade, thanks to a student team from Edinburgh Napier University.
Since January, the group – codenamed Black Lagoon – have been working on the 3rd-year Napier 'Projex' scheme, which pairs students with clients.
The third public consultation on plans for the New Town North development between Dundas Street and King George V Park will go live online today at noon.
Developers Ediston, on behalf of Orion Capital Managers, propose homes, build-to-rent apartments, premium office spaces, and a high-class hotel.
Retail outlets, gym/health facilities, extensive landscaping, and new public realm are also part of the mix.
It's one of the gloomiest and most precipitous streets in Spurtleshire, but even this narrow descent to Greenside Row is not immune to the changing of the seasons.
When our photo was taken on Tuesday morning, this sometimes thundering canyon was instead filled with birdsong, amorous pigeons, and the imminent promise of fresh starts in the shrubbery.
Council Leader Adam McVey today praised public and voluntary organisations in Edinburgh, and urged residents to be good neighbours.
He suggests those wishing to help others contact Volunteer Edinburgh for advice and information.
Newly formed community groups are encouraged to contact EVOC to help coordinate responses across the city, and arrange deliveries of food at a very local level.
The Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region today launched a new job-matching service.
Job seekers, employees, and employers can register here to receive support and advice on live vacancies.
To sign up for the COVID-19 Jobs Support service, follow this link.
Work was already happening on the service, but has been accelerated to mitigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. New ‘essential and sudden-growth sectors’ include supermarkets, home deliveries, and the NHS.
ROBBERY AND RECOVERY OF PROPERTY.—Late on Friday night, a blacksmith, named Clark, from Elgin, allowed himself to be enticed into a disreputable house in Nottingham Terrace, by a woman named Beaton; but he had not been there many minutes, when he discovered himself minus a pocket book containing L.16.[1]
COUNCIL ADAPTS TO CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, Pompeii was not the only casualty.
Herculaneum – nine miles to the north – was likewise engulfed, a pyroclastic surge burying the town and smothering many of its inhabitants in a thick shroud of volcanic ash.
Emanuel Maurice, Prince d’Elbeuf, began excavating here in 1719, and it was from his posthumous estate that the Edinburgh diarist and lawyer James Boswell acquired ‘not cheap’ the plaster cast of a young female cat (shown foot of page) during his Grand Tour of Italy, Corsica, and France in 1764/66.