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As reported in Breaking news earlier this month (6.9.10), Drummond Community High School are busily raising the £15,000 required for students and staff at their Kenyan partnership schools to come and visit. They have only until June 2011, so the clock is definitely ticking.
Yet another Leith Walk sign has been erected affirming yet again the respect and affection in which Edinburgh-super-mare is held by its citizens.
Lord Provost George Grubb unveiled it at the corner of Pilrig Street on 13 September.
This latest addition is comparatively calm and appealing. Designer Noel Spence says the flags at the bottom spell out (to no-one's great surprise) I LOVE LEITH.
An advertisement in the Scotsman for Union Gallery's McGuire exhibition earlier this month (Breaking news 1.9.10) reduced hardened staff at the national newspaper to girlish blushes and the interpolation of asterisks.
They toned down the name of one work to: 'The Relaxing Pleasure of Sh***ing in the Woods'.
Broad-minded Broughtonians are nowhere near so easily shocked. The first painting to sell at the exhibition was one charmingly entitled Acrobatic Pissing Dog in the Spotlight.
The Council's flawed consultation on budget priorities is currently unravelling across the city to widespread dissatisfaction and embarrassment.
We will discuss the problem in Issue 187 (1 October), but for now enthusiastically endorse campaign organisation Greener Leith's coverage at www.greenerleith.org.
'Is Lady Gaga greedy? Is Duncan James promiscuous? Is Katy Perry confused? Does bisexuality exist?'
Yesterday's Guardian added usefully to our planning coverage of 22 September (Breaking news).
Many of us remember from our own youth the times when Maths ceased to make sense and became instead an alarming jumble of random figures, odd-looking hieroglyphs and alien concepts. If you know someone who feels that way about Higher Mathematics today, or could just do with running over past lessons one more time, help is at hand.
The arrival of Tesco at 8 Picardy Place appears to have moved a step closer with the granting of listed building consent for an illuminated fascia sign, an externally illuminated projecting sign, vinyl window graphics, and an internal security shutter (Ref. 10/02074/LBC).
The 160th Brownies have just started their last term in the centenary year of guiding.
So far, they've had a great year, working on badges such as 'World Issues' and 'Healthy Heart', and winning a city-wide competition at Edinburgh Castle's take-over event.
Now they're looking forward to the rest of the calendar and academic year, and currently have some spaces available for new Brownies.
Mark Lazarowicz has reconfirmed whom he will back for the Labour Party leadership.
'I'm voting for Ed Miliband,' he told Spurtle.
Balloting – which began on Monday of last week – will continue until Wednesday 22 September, with the result being announced at the Labour Party Conference on Saturday 25 September.