DRYDEN GAIT ROBBERY – POLICE SEEK INFORMATION
Police Scotland issued a press release this lunchtime. We reproduce it below unedited and in full.
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MORE CONSULTATION YET TO COME
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.
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THE STOCKBRIDGE MURDER CASE, 1889
Part II
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PROBLEMS WITH COUNCIL’S GREENSPACE CONSULTATION
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.
East Claremont Street pavement works
East and west footways to be reconstructed between West Annandale Street and Broughton Road. Drainage and street lighting renewal also part of the project. Expect some disruption. Work will last approximately 6 weeks.
Date and time
Venue
East Claremont Street
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)
ISSUE 297 — OUT TOMORROW!
As you read this, printed copies of the July Spurtle are already appearing across the barony like half-eaten fish suppers on a pre-Lockdown Saturday morning.
Issue 297 starts with shameless public nudity, whereby hangs a tail. It continues with suggestions for Council officers to chew over, more doubts on discussions in a crisis, and thoughts about a stuck-up local whom few people seem ever to have liked much.
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THE STOCKBRIDGE MURDER CASE
1889
Part I
News from the Mews is about to take another dark turn.
Over the next three weeks, the court journalism reproduced here will cover one of the most notorious Edinburgh murder cases of the 19th century, rendered even more shocking at the time by the perpetrator being a woman and the victims babies.