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SAVE LEITH WALK CAMPAIGNS AT CITY CHAMBERS

Save Leith Walk campaigners got an early taste of the Planning system’s complexities and frustrations this afternoon when they tried to present a…
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LEITH … BOOM OR BUST?

Bar rooms, kitchen tables and social media have been buzzing over recent months with conversations about the future of Leith in general and Leith…
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PAPERWORK 5 REVIEWED

Paperwork 5 is the fifth, annual, joint exhibition by three artists with quite different but complementary styles. It’s an independently minded…
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St MARK'S BRIDGE TO CLOSE TILL 2019

 TLC FOR THE PRESTRESSED After a hard day’s splashing about in the rain, do you sometimes feel you could do with your post-tensioned…
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EDINBURGH WELCOMES CAREFUL DIVERS

This morning was a morning for the Edinburgh purist. The sort of person who can see beyond the drips on their nose and focus on the bigger…
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BUSES ABANDON PILRIG STREET

 PROBLEM PARKING FORCES DIVERSIONS Lothian Buses’ Service 11 was suspended along Pilrig Street on 9 August because parked vehicles…
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A VERY EDINBURGH CHIBBING

NEW FILM BACKS MUSIC SCHOOL PLAN A visually stunning new video has appeared online asserting the merits of moving St Mary’s Music School into a…
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RBS BACKS OFF FOR NOW

 OUTLINE PLANNING APPLICATION WITHDRAWN Yesterday, Royal Bank of Scotland unexpectedly withdrew its planning permission in principle…
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COUNCIL MOVES ON SHORT-TERM LETS

City of Edinburgh Council has taken stock of its existing powers, and set out a wish-list for new powers it wants from the Scottish Government, in a…
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'THE KING AND I' AND CROAN BEE

As mentioned in Issue 275, the subject of the 2017 film The King and I is kenspeckle local resident Graham Croan Bee. Croan Bee lives…
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