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If you live in a tenement, you may well have been frustrated by power cuts affecting the time the stair lights come on and go off.
The reason power cuts affect lighting timing is because the timing on each stair is controlled by an ‘Astro clock’, or timeswitch, which turns the lights on and off at the right time of day for the time of year.
Police in Scotland issued a statement this evening regarding the incident in Annandale Street this afternoon.
We reproduce it in full.
A spokesperson said: 'Police in Edinburgh were called to Annandale Street around 11.50am on Friday 1st March following a report of a suspicious item.
'A cordon was established as precaution while the EOD carried out an assessment of this.
'The item was found not to pose any risk to the public and the community are thanked for their co-operation.
This is a full version of the article which was reproduced (in shortened form) in Issue 282. It comes from the Scotsman, 14 March 1919.
AMERICAN HUT IN EDINBURGH.
NEW LEAVE MECCA FOR UNITED STATES SERVICE MEN.
It’s nearly March, and copies of the latest Spurtle have already begun bouncing about the barony like spring hares on a garden trampoline.
Issue 282 of your action-packed local stirrer begins with big decisions, bad baking, and a by-election … plus high jinks among pond life.
It continues with buses, borrowing, and a welcome absence of bollards, bids farewell to the lady boys of Pilrig, ruminates on leviathans, and puts in a good word for scruffy unfortunates.
In almost every part of the world, the dragonfly symbolises change, transformation, harmony, and good luck. In some cultures it represents summer and autumn, in others admiration, respect, power, and victory.
Louise Nichol owns The Dragonfly, a small independent gift shop in bohemian Broughton Street. She wanted a strong name to represent the passionate spirit behind the extensive eclectic mix of pieces on sale here, all personally chosen for this pocket-sized treasure trove.
Many thanks to reader Mark Saunders, who has sent us this upbeat vision of future developments.
It was conceived, perhaps, through topaz-coloured spectacles.
*****
Call for Artists
Come all ye artists!
The Golden Turd needs you!
you, who can glorify the work
on this blue January day
who can scale the concrete towers
more impregnable than the Castle
and the cranes towering taller still
like ancient siege equipment.
Good news on Broughton Street!
SGN this morning announced that work to replace gas mains has been going well … so well in fact that they now expect to reopen the street about two weeks ahead of schedule.
The London Street–Albany Street section will reopen to two-way traffic from 6.00am on Tuesday 26 February.
The Albany Street–York Place section will follow suit by Friday 15 March, provided works by a separate contractor at the top of the hill have completed.
City of Edinburgh councillors are currently considering the business case for extending the tramline to Newhaven.
They will debate a report on the subject at the Transport & Environment Committee on 28 February. This, if approved, will then be discussed and voted upon at a meeting of the full Council on 14 March.
INDECENCY OFFENCE ON GEORGE STREET
Police in Edinburgh released a press release this morning. We reproduce it below unedited and in full.
Police in Edinburgh have released an image of a man that officers wish to trace in connection with an investigation into an indecency offence in the city centre.
The incident happened at around 11.30am on Saturday 26th January within a coffee shop in George Street.
ALARMING SMASH AT YORK PLACE. — A collision between a 3-ton motor lorry and a tramcar at the crossing of York Place, Edinburgh, and Broughton Street, caused some alarm yesterday forenoon.
While the lorry, belonging to the A.C.S. Motor Company, was turning from York Place into Broughton Street, it skidded and crashed broadside into a tramcar which was proceeding northwards down Broughton Street, and partially knocked it off the permanent way.