Breaking news

CROSS RESPONSE TO SNAPPY TOURISTS – PLANNING UPDATE (19.3.12)
Tuesday 20 March 2012 - 15:57
Historic Scotland have applied for planning permission to erect an 8m-high 'saltire flagpole' in Edinburgh Castle (Ref. 12/00749/FUL).If consented,…
Read More
GOING ... GOING ...
Monday 19 March 2012 - 12:20
It looks like the end for these trees beside Canonmills Bridge, photographed this morning as contractors applied the coups de grace.Malcolm Chisholm…
Read More
BETRAYED! TREES CHOPPED AT CANONMILLS AFTER COUNCIL U-TURN
Sunday 18 March 2012 - 11:07
Council contractors began felling trees upstream of Canonmills Bridge on Friday, despite explicit assurances that they would be spared.On 16 December…
Read More
'PUREST HEAPS!!'
Friday 16 March 2012 - 17:58
Love conquers everything.Even the cracks in the pavement, even the fag ends caught in the cracks, even the gobbets of bubble-gum squashed and…
Read More
GROWING GAIA'S WELCOME RETURN TO BROUGHTON
Friday 16 March 2012 - 08:27
Readers probably remember the Gaia Group – an ensemble of sustainable development-minded planners, architects and engineers who used to work out of…
Read More
HOT TIP FOR HAT SPOTTERS
Thursday 15 March 2012 - 12:12
In Issue 204 we set the following picture challenge. Name the location of this curious Broughton light-fitting and a £15 retro-style book token could…
Read More
ROCHEID PATH – YOUR VIEWS SOUGHT
Wednesday 14 March 2012 - 10:56
Friends of the Rocheid Path have welcomed City of Edinburgh Council's agreement to undertake immediate necessary improvements to the popular cycle…
Read More
5 THINGS JOURNALISTS NEED TO KNOW TODAY
Wednesday 14 March 2012 - 07:53
1. Recommending FIVE things readers need to know every morning is REALLY annoying. 2. The number FIVE is NEITHER significant NOR helpful. 3. ONE…
Read More
THE MASTERING OF THE BALLANTRAE – A WINTER'S TALE AND PLANNING UPDATE (12.3.12)
Tuesday 13 March 2012 - 11:51
The Ballantrae Hotel has been refused consent for a 3-storey, 14-bedroom extension with external stair and canopy to the rear of its Albany Street…
Read More
HIDDEN BLOOMS
Tuesday 13 March 2012 - 09:39
Pictured here is Lynne Harkes's 'A Floral Welcome', part of her exhibition currently showing at Bon Papillon on Howe Street.It almost makes you…
Read More