Locals gathered yesterday to celebrate the life and love of Agnes Maclehose (née Craig), who was born on 26 April 1758.
Maclehose (‘Nancy’ to intimates) came from Glasgow, where she met and married the lawyer James Maclehose in 1776. She parted 4 years later on the grounds of his mental cruelty, by which time she had borne him 4 children.
If you like your video content slow and steady with a mysterious dark stranger wandering through it for no good reason, you'll enjoy this short clip on YouTube.
It shows the Cyprus-registered Seaway Alpha Lift leaving Leith this morning bound for Inch Cape, where she was expected to arrive at about 3pm.
Unbelievably perfect.
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Some locals have reacted with alarm to plans for new housing at the end of Heriot Hill Terrace (26/01422/FUL).
Darlington-based Mandale Homes (MH) proposes demolishing the unremarkable structure at Nos 32–34 (where the Busy Bees Nursery operated until early 2024) and building 10 new townhouses on the site.
The view from Calton Hill earlier this evening.
CFC Renaissance (Compagnie Française de Croisières) will depart Leith at 8.00pm, bound for Aberdeen then Orkney then Shetland.
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Appeal for woman missing in Edinburgh
Officers are appealing for the help of the public to trace a 19-year-old woman reported missing in the Leith area of Edinburgh.
Lauren Fulton was last seen around 8.30am on Friday, 17 April, 2026 in the Ferry Road area.
She is described as around 5ft 8ins, of slim build with bushy brown hair and usually wears glasses.
Summarising two hours of debate is unnecessary given the YouTube release [available here], so I’d like to offer a few personal reflections on what struck me most.
Our thanks go to reader Ellen Netherby, who spotted this cormorant – the product of spilt paint and creative thinking – drying its wings on a pavement in Oxcraig Street, Granton.
‘Pareidolia’, according to Psychology Today, ‘is a phenomenon wherein people perceive likenesses on random images—such as faces, animals, or objects on clouds and rock formations. It is not a clinical diagnosis nor is it a disorder.
The six candidates answering questions on 16 April are as follows: