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DRYING-UP AND SELLING FAST

As you dry up your cups and saucers, do you ever find yourself wandering out of the house in search of something more interesting to do? If so,…
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ALL CHANGE AT CANONMILLS? PROBABLY NOT

Plans to build 2 restaurants, 6 flats and 3 townhouses at 1,2,3–6 Canonmills (beside the bridge) have at last been approved (Ref. 09/00830/FUL).…
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WILL PLANNERS SAY GOODBYE TO UNITE?

What is the point of time-limited planning permissions if the time allowed for development is not, indeed, limited? That is one of the questions…
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LOCALS FIGHT SHRUB PLACE 'ROCKIES'

Although stone-crushing on the Shrub Place gap-site has now ceased, lorries and JCBs are still shifting vast amounts of tramwork-related rubble and…
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STRONG VIEWS ON CITY CENTRE VISION

The New Town and Broughton Community Council has responded to the Council's 'Building a Vision for the City Centre Consultation'.We reproduce its…
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YOUR WEATHER TODAY

Are you out and about this Saturday? Wear everything – you name it, sunproof, heat insulating, water-resistant – everything.  The Weather…
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BLACK-AND-WHITE AND CUTE ALL OVER – BUT WHO IS HE?

Does any reader recognise this wee chap?  He's a black-and-white male kitten aged about 6 months, and was first spotted in a back green off…
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CROWS, ROOKS, AND THE OVERLOOKED

The brief to artists for this month's exhibition Neighbourhood Birds at Bon Papillon was to depict 'birds of garden and field that are often…
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PUBLIC TO JUDGE NEW PILRIG PROPOSALS

Proposals to create a Pilrig Conservation Area (PCA) are being considered by the Council's Planning Department, and will be explained in public soon…
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POLICE SEEK MISSING LOCAL WOMAN

Local woman Laura Gorrie has been missing in the capital since 8.45pm on Wednesday 1 May, and Edinburgh Police are now seeking help to trace her. The…
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