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The third public consultation on plans for the New Town North development between Dundas Street and King George V Park will go live online today at noon.
Developers Ediston, on behalf of Orion Capital Managers, propose homes, build-to-rent apartments, premium office spaces, and a high-class hotel.
Retail outlets, gym/health facilities, extensive landscaping, and new public realm are also part of the mix.
It's one of the gloomiest and most precipitous streets in Spurtleshire, but even this narrow descent to Greenside Row is not immune to the changing of the seasons.
When our photo was taken on Tuesday morning, this sometimes thundering canyon was instead filled with birdsong, amorous pigeons, and the imminent promise of fresh starts in the shrubbery.
Council Leader Adam McVey today praised public and voluntary organisations in Edinburgh, and urged residents to be good neighbours.
He suggests those wishing to help others contact Volunteer Edinburgh for advice and information.
Newly formed community groups are encouraged to contact EVOC to help coordinate responses across the city, and arrange deliveries of food at a very local level.
The Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region today launched a new job-matching service.
Job seekers, employees, and employers can register here to receive support and advice on live vacancies.
To sign up for the COVID-19 Jobs Support service, follow this link.
Work was already happening on the service, but has been accelerated to mitigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. New ‘essential and sudden-growth sectors’ include supermarkets, home deliveries, and the NHS.
ROBBERY AND RECOVERY OF PROPERTY.—Late on Friday night, a blacksmith, named Clark, from Elgin, allowed himself to be enticed into a disreputable house in Nottingham Terrace, by a woman named Beaton; but he had not been there many minutes, when he discovered himself minus a pocket book containing L.16.[1]
COUNCIL ADAPTS TO CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, Pompeii was not the only casualty.
Herculaneum – nine miles to the north – was likewise engulfed, a pyroclastic surge burying the town and smothering many of its inhabitants in a thick shroud of volcanic ash.
Emanuel Maurice, Prince d’Elbeuf, began excavating here in 1719, and it was from his posthumous estate that the Edinburgh diarist and lawyer James Boswell acquired ‘not cheap’ the plaster cast of a young female cat (shown foot of page) during his Grand Tour of Italy, Corsica, and France in 1764/66.
As you read this, only a very few Spurtles are dispersing across the barony, maintaining a 6ft distance between each other at all times and accessible to readers from behind a plexi-glass safety screen.
Should you be lucky enough to encounter a copy, you will find on Page 1 news of flood, foam, and festive fatigue, and an unwelcome visitor to Broughton and all parts beyond.
Yesterday we came across guidance for over-70s and vulnerable others on receiving deliveries.
It comes from Dr Richard Simpson, an Honorary Professor of Health Sciences & Sport at Stirling University; Visiting Hon. Professor at St Andrews University; retired MSP; former GP; psychiatrist; Community Union member.
We trust his advice, and repeat it unedited below.
SOUP-KITCHEN.—We understand that a soup-kitchen was opened on Saturday at Greenside Row, which will be a great boon to the poor of that densely populated parish, among whom for some time back there has been much sickness, and many very distressing cases of fever. We learn that it is under the management of the excellent minister of the parish and his session.
Scotsman, 16 January 1839
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