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Leith Walk this afternoon.
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Lothian Buses – Hell on wheels
Dear Spurtle,
My life in East London Street is a never-ending cycle of disturbance.
Every night, I'm woken up at midnight, 3am, and 5am by the sound of buses passing my house. I try to use earplugs to muffle the sound, but I can never seem to find them when I need them. Even when I do manage to drift off to sleep, it's only for a short while before I'm woken up again.
The days are no different. Even when I'm working from home, trying to concentrate and finish my tasks, the noise from the buses is a constant distraction. No matter what I do, I can't seem to escape the noise. It's like a torture that I can never escape.
I try to stay positive and make the best of the situation but it's hard when I'm so sleep-deprived and tired all the time. I can't help but feel that if the out-of-service bus drivers didn't use this route, the 320 residents would at least get more peace and quiet and a better night's rest.
It would be a welcome relief after 5 years to have some respite from the constant noise and disruption.
Ross MacCallum
(East London Street)
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Spurtle learns E. London St campaigners will meet representatives from Lothian Buses on 30 January. All ward councillors, Deidre Brock MSP and Angus Robertson MP have also been invited to attend. See our coverage in Issue 325, published on 1 February.
TIME TO ACT FOR AT-RISK KING’S THEATRE
The King’s Theatre is in danger. Will Quinn, Broughton arts critic and editor of the Quinntessential Review, explains the crisis facing a cultural asset for the whole city.
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There remain only a few weeks for Capital Theatres, locally based stewards of the historic Leven Street venue, to keep the doors open for this and the next generation.
DRUMMOND PLACE/DUNDONALD STREET
Ups and downs. No. 2 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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COUNCIL MAY SELL EYRE PLACE PLOT
On Thursday this week (26 Jan), councillors on the Finance & Resources Cmte will consider selling off Council-owned land in Eyre Place.
The 552 m2 site currently serves as garden space but was, until some point in the late 1980s, a tenement.
Before that, the area had been built on since at least 1804, when John Ainslie's 'Old and New Town of Edinburgh and Leith with the Proposed Docks' was published.
SPURTLE IS SITTING ON A NEWS-EGG
It will hatch very shortly after midnight.
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MAKE SPACE FOR MORE READING
Are you a magazine hoarder?
If so, Stockbridge Library can help you!
But, before you seek out help, you need to acknowledge that you have a problem. The realisation for me came when I discovered I had three copies of the same edition of the Sunday Times Magazine. As a New Year’s resolution, I’ve committed to substantially reducing my stockpile. The magazines I have broadly fall into three categories:
THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER
The New Town & Broughton Community Council has identified aspects of continued and worsening deficiency in how Edinburgh’s World Heritage Site is managed.
The findings appeared in NTBCC’s detailed response to a consultation on the next 5-year WHS management plan conducted by the Council, Historic Environment Scotland and Edinburgh World Heritage.
BEAUTIFUL AND PURE BALTIC
Inchcolm Abbey viewed (through gritted teeth) from near Aberdour.
Emotion, non-collection and lack of tranquility
Dear Spurtle,
I wrote this in desperation at yet another non-collection of our pre-paid garden waste bins. Does anyone else suffer this lack of 'service', I wonder?
I now have a RANTS file of trying to live with City of Edinburgh Council.
There, that's a bit better. But it doesn't solve the problem as they don't communicate and can't be got hold of. I hope your bins are regularly collected.
Mrs Moira Vaughan
(Pilrig House Close)