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Drummond Community High School pupils Michal Wrobel, Alizah Mughal, Dalia Saadi and Haia Jihan will be filmed in and around the school as part of a new video resource for the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI). 

Over the weekend, we posted on Facebook here the photograph you see on the right alongside the question posed in the headline above. 

We wondered whether Edinburgh residents had become accepting, indifferent, or too exhausted by another year’s mudfest to feel much fussed about the issue. We wanted to gauge whether the sorry state of our ‘tranquil green space’ still stirred local feelings.

EDINBURGH TRIBUTE TO WORLD LEADER

Today’s Presidential inauguration will take place amid much pomp and ceremony. 

Nothing, it seems, could be more American. 

Only, there will be a distinctly Scottish component to the day’s events – once for the outgoing Barack Obama and later for the newly installed Donald Trump. 

‘Little Green Men’ have been with us for years. 

An exclusively bean-eating brother and sister arrived in Woolpit, Suffolk at some point in the 12th century, orginating in the subterranean ‘St Martin’s Land’ and emerging from a cave, drawn by the bells of Bury St Edmunds. 

A green-coloured Martian was reported for the first time in the Kennebec Journal of 1908, newly arrived in Augusta, Maine. Two years later a crashed extraterrestrial was supposedly recovered in Apulia, Italy. 

Locals will meet on Thursday this week to discuss setting up a new residents association. 

‘With city developments encroaching on us in adjacent areas, we feel that now is the time to make sure that our voice is heard at the Council table,’ reads a flyer circulating in the area. 

’We also feel that as a community we would benefit from knowing and supporting our neighbours better.’ 

CLAIMS ABOUT EXPENSIVE DELAY WITH LITTLE CHANCE OF SUCCESS 

On 9 September last year we reported how Duddingston House Properties Ltd (DHP) and Urbanist Hotels (UH) had successfully applied for a sist (legal delay) on their appeal against City of Edinburgh Council’s refusal of planning permission for a hotel development at the old Royal High School. 

Moves are afoot to restore the Ross Fountain in West Princes Street Gardens to full working order. 

2017 has not started well for one Fettes Row family. 

Their beloved cat Trousers – a young-looking 14-year old – has been missing since late on New Year’s Day, and they’re asking for locals’ help to get her back again. 

When last seen, she was wearing a blue collar with a bell on it, and a plastic tag carrying her PETLOG number/microchip contact number.

POLICE SEEK WITNESSES

Police Scotland have issued the following press release. We reproduce it in full.

Police in Edinburgh investigating a robbery at a restaurant in Canonmills are appealing for witnesses.

The robbery occurred at Earthy on Canonmills Bridge at around 9.40pm on Thursday 5th January.

Two men with knives and wearing balaclavas robbed the premises of upwards of a three-figure sum of cash.

Pilrig Street will be closed at the southern end for 7 weeks from 9 January. 

Lothian Bus services 11 and N11 will divert between Newhaven Road and Elm Row via Broughton Road and McDonald Road. See map below. 

Meanwhile, until September, parking restrictions and lane closures will continue on Leith Walk with closures of, in order and as required, Iona Street, Albert Street, Middlefield, Brunswick Street, Brunswick Road and Shrub Place Lane.