DUTY DONE:—'Drink, drink. Fan, fan. Rub, rub.'

BELLEVUE CRESCENT:—A welcoming space for the sensitive bottom.

The autumn mid-term break has come early this year on Broughton Road.

Parents and carers at the primary school opposite will unite in wishing Yossi a full and speedy recovery.

Preferably, before the really cold weather sets in.

Christopher Spencer’s exhibition at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall has been extended till Thursday – sustained, it seems, by an inexhaustible font of outrage.

You, Me & Cold War Steve (The International Exhibition of the People) brings together three years’ scorn (2019–21) in the form of 50 artfully manipulated photomontages.

Spencer’s style draws on Hieronymus Bosch’s eye for infernal detail, and the exuberant savagery of Hogarth and Gillivray.

New parcel storage for collecting and sending has appeared outside Tesco Broughton Road.

Unfortunately, there is no room for adverbs.

If you find yourself on the path between Five Ways Junction and Lower Granton Road anytime soon, whap oot your smartphone and hae a wee swatch at this sign by the entrance to East Trinity Road Tunnel.

The QR code links to a spoken poem: ‘No Birds Land’, by Tamsin Grainger.

It’s about birds: their song, their chirps and chirrups, their presence or disturbing absence in this echoing drip-lined passage.

It is distinctly odd. Stuttering. Repetititve. Alliterative. Bird-ish. Occasionally squawky.

A new phase of work in the Trams to Broughton project starts on Monday, 11 October.

As before, one line of traffic will run towards Leith from York Place.

But instead of a roundabout, there will now be a junction to go left into Gayfield Square, straight ahead down Leith Walk, or right into London Road.

Traffic will NOT be able to turn right out of London Road along Leith Walk. Anyone wishing to access Leith will have first to turn left and go up round the temporary construction site at Picardy Place before heading north.

The view from Constitution Street this afternoon.

Police Scotland issued the following press release at lunchtime today. We reproduce it unedited and in full.

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Police Scotland is appealing for information following an abduction and attempted murder incident which happened in the city centre overnight.

Acclaimed artist Victoria Crowe was at St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church this morning to raise awareness of the forthcoming Sale of Pictures and Scottish Books there later this month.

Crowe has donated two paintings for the sale: ‘Turn of the Season’ (which she is pictured  holding, below) and ‘Large Tree Group’ (even further below, held by an assistant).