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LOCALS HAIL PARK IMPROVEMENTS

Local residents who organise themselves to take an active interest in their neighbourhoods can make a noticeable and very welcome difference.Take the…
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LAST CHANCE TO COMMENT

Today is the last chance for readers to comment on three big local developments.  Plans to conserve and extend with new building the old Royal…
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LIFT-OFF FOR PASSION ON THE CORNER

The fifth annual Postcard exhibition in association with the NHS Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2015 has begun, write our friends at…
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SPURTLE TO THE RESCUE

As Broughton swelters in ferocious heat and blinding brightness, Spurtle has responded by manufacturing thousands of emergency sunshades for local…
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FLATS PLAN FOR YORK PLACE

York Place Development LLP seeks planning permission to convert offices at 15–19 York Place into 11 one and two-bedroom flats (Refs 15/04271/FUL; 15/…
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TRIPLE TRIUMPH AT DRUMMOND TENNIS CLUB

Drummond Tennis Club held its annual tournament over six weeks between the start of August and the middle of September. Mark Fergie talks us through…
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STAR-STUDDED CAST ELUDES SPURTLE

A new adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel The Secret Agent was being filmed on Broughton Place and outside the Barony Bar on Broughton…
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RBS CONSULTS ON MAJOR DEVELOPMENT SITE

Royal Bank of Scotland has begun a consultation exercise concerning the future of its properties on Dundas Street, Fettes Row, Royal Crescent, Eyre…
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FOUR CITIES UNDER THE SURFACE

An outdoor exhibition of words and photographs is being staged in the Rodney Street Tunnel for the next month. Hold me Dear features over 40…
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CAMERA OBSCURA

Spurtle has been out and about today, noseying into other people's business as usual.Here – in no particular order – are nine photos of what we saw.…
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