Dear Spurtle,
This is a bin in Scotland Street.
During the storm on Friday 26 November, it was empty and blown into the kerb. It is proving difficult to deal with. The normal vehicle cannot lift it and, as it is full it requires more than two men to push into position. The Council is dealing with the results of the storm across the city and problems in streets with far higher density and footfall than Scotland Street.
Has anyone else noticed this absolutely huge Bellevue squirrel?
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This is interesting: the Ingleby Gallery’s virtual viewing room, part of its Instalments series, in which local artist Jessica Harrison describes the thoughts and techniques behind her transformations of found objects.
In this installation, the reworked pieces form two separate series; one playing with Bone China Figures of women, the other with classical statues as pictured and supposedly available in Online Shopping.
Despite Covid, despite shortages of material and skilled labour, despite unexpected ‘utility conflicts’ at key junctions, the Trams to Broughton project is within the £207.3M budget and remains on schedule for revenue service to begin in the spring of 2023.
City of Edinburgh Council is celebrating with a seasonal blizzard of statistics. Since November 2019, it says, the project has:
Congratulations to Paige Conner and staff, who have been voted the Edinburgh’s top hair salon in this year’s Scotland’s Business Awards.
An unknown client nominated the Broughton Street team over the summer, with others offering their own votes and reviews later.
A mystery shopper also visited the salon to verify the quality of the service, and to help whittle down 500 nominations to an elite 40.
Edinburgh Council’s refusal of planning permission to convert 37a and 39 London Street into short-term lets has been upheld.
On 1 December, a reporter appointed by Scottish Ministers dismissed the owner’s appeal against the decision, and also endorsed the Council’s refusal of a change of use for this purpose.
Following high-profile controversies in Westminster last month, Spurtle decided to check closer to home on what our politicians earn outwith the forums to which they were elected.
The following summaries have been compiled on the basis of publicly accessible records in the public domain.
We found nothing that gave us serious cause for concern.
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