The following press release was received from Police Scotland earlier today. We reprint it unedited and in full below.

EDINBURGH CHAUFFEUR’S SUNDAY MORNING RUN.

ALLEGED EXCESS OF THE LEGAL LIMIT.

John Wallace, 26 Carlton Terrace Lane, Edinburgh, was charged before Sheriff Guy at Edinburgh Sheriff Summary Court to-day with having, on Sunday morning, 13th August, between Norton Plaoe and Willowbrae Road, driven a motor car under his care at a speed exceeding 20 miles an hour, contrary to the Motor Act. He was also charged with having failed to produce his licence when asked by Police Inspector Brown.

A press release arrived in our inbox yesterday asking us to ‘spread the joyous news’ that today (Friday) is National Fish and Chip Day.

This not-for-profit celebration raises awareness of the country’s ‘favourite dish’ and raises money for the charitable Fishermen’s Mission.

COUNCILLORS APPROVE RADICAL RETHINK

Councillors on the Development Management Subcommittee this morning granted planning permission for Legal & General Investment's plans to rebuild behind the façade of 109–12 Princes St and 144–50 Rose Street.

Our neighbour and long-time Spurtle supporter Dr Joy Hendry is a distinguished editor, critic, and all-round ‘lady of letters’ whose work for the literary magazine Chapman has for many years been conducted at home in Broughton Place.

Below is the full version of a piece we reproduced in Spurtle Issue 307. It is from the Scotsman, 18 September 1897.

The aesthetics of bill-sticking have been discussed by all sorts of Cockburn Associations, art congresses, and professional and dilettante bodies that exist for the purpose of telling the public when its sensibilities ought to be shocked by exhibitions of the inartistic and the unrefined. It has been left for a member of the Sanitary Institute to show that bill-sticking has its ethical or moral aspect.

As you read this, advance copies of the June Spurtle are already finding their way into shops, bars, homes, and recycling bins across Broughton and beyond.

Page 1 begins with a doggie, a Dougray, and diversions. It continues with a missing candidate, cluster rumbles, and a fight for the right to enjoy a tight squeeze.

EDINBURGH COUNCILLOR’S ROMANCE

In the Court of Session on Tuesday, before Lord Low, evidence was led in an action by Euphemia Cumming Montgomery, 3 Hope Street, Portobello, and Annie Gall Montgomery, her daughter, against Peter Purves, of Messrs D. Purves & Co., plumbers, 12 Rose Street, Edinburgh, the next-of-kin of the late David Purves, who resided at 66 Haymarket Terrace, Edinburgh, and against David Purves’s trustees.

‘SHAKE THINGS UP A BIT, WHAT?’

The mysterious depths of 38 Queen Street are explained in plans associated with a proposal to convert part of the ground floor at H&T Pawnbrokers into a two-bedroom flat (21/02806/LBC).