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SCOTLAND STREET

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Bright and early.

These old-fashioned street lamps were illuminated not by electricity but sunshine earlier today.

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ROUND AND ROUND IN CIRCLES

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Following a second round of public consultations in late November, we await with interest a new planning application from Ediston and Orion Capital Managers to develop the site bounded by Dundas Street, Eyre Place, King George V Park and Fettes Row/Royal Crescent.

We expect to see latest proposals for the New Town Quarter later this month.

Local resident, playwright, poet and Edinburgh's first makar Stewart Conn has lived alongside the disruptive demolition here since work began in 2022.

TIME TO TICKLE YOUR TONGUE

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Are you approaching tonight’s celebrations with a certain weariness?

 

Have you become jaded over Christmas through an excess of savoury sameness – that familiar tedium of cheese & onion, salt & vinegar, prawn cocktail and BBQ beef?

 

Then may we recommend to you the delights of the Starlight Asian Supermarket at 368 Leith Walk.

 

It boasts a quite astonishing variety of Lay’s crisp flavours to which many locals will be unaccustomed, at least in this context and these combinations. 

 

SAD NEWS FOR BROUGHTON

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John Dickie will stir no more

John Dickie (83), founding editor of the Broughton Spurtle (1994–2006), died in the small hours of this morning.

 

His death occurred peacefully at the Western General Hospital, where he had been ill for some time. Loved ones were at his side constantly as the end neared.

 

Holiday-related delays, and John’s decision to leave his body to medical science, mean that the timing of funeral arrangements cannot yet be established. We’ll publicise them here when we know more.

 

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