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TWO LOCAL ROBBERIES – POLICE SEEK WITNESSES

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Police Scotland issued the following press release this morning.

We reproduce it unedited and in full.

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Police in Edinburgh are appealing for information after two robbery related incidents happened in two convenience stores on Saturday, 4 July.

The first incident happened around 5.45pm at the Best One store on Bonnington Road. The suspect threatened the shop keeper with a knife and demanded money from the till. The shop keeper challenged the suspect who then left.

MORE CONSULTATION YET TO COME

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COUNCIL HASN’T BLOWN £840K ON ONE QUESTIONNAIRE

On Wednesday, Spurtle reported the launch earlier in the week of a Council-backed questionnaire on the future use and maintenance of Edinburgh’s green spaces.

Our correspondent constructively criticised the survey’s lack of depth, its conflation of spaces, muddled phrasing, and technical shortcomings that make it diifficult and unreliable to use.

PROBLEMS WITH COUNCIL’S GREENSPACE CONSULTATION

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SURVEYS BEG MORE QUESTIONS THAN THEY ASK

City of Edinburgh Council has launched a new three-part consultation on how to enhance, protect, and care for the city’s parks and greenspaces over the next 30 years.

The Thriving Green Spaces Project is a partnership between the Council’s Parks, Greenspaces and Cemeteries Service and Greenspace Scotland, Scottish Wildlife Trust, Edinburgh and Lothians Greenspace Trust, Edinburgh University, and the Edinburgh Green Spaces Forum.

Retail recovery – remember your independents!

Dear Spurtle,

After three-and-a-half long months, many of us independent retailers finally opened our doors again yesterday. 

Messages of support flew between us throughout the day, but our joy is tempered thinking of those in our vital entertainment and hospitality sectors who still await their decree. 

How sad then, at the end of the day, to see the media focus on a national, competitively-priced, budget tailor and an international purveyor of fruity phones and laptops, as symbols of retail recovery north of the border. 

Charlie Paterson, my dear departed father-in-law, would have been dismayed to see Edinburgh’s proud and unique independent retail sector slighted by banal reporting, rather than celebrating the unique range of businesses this fine city offers. 

I send love to all those who have suffered and continue to struggle in Spurtleshire and beyond. 

Lynne Roberts

(Salento, 44 Dundas Street)

Salento

 

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