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It’s nearly March, and copies of the latest Spurtle have already begun bouncing about the barony like spring hares on a garden trampoline.
Issue 282 of your action-packed local stirrer begins with big decisions, bad baking, and a by-election … plus high jinks among pond life.
It continues with buses, borrowing, and a welcome absence of bollards, bids farewell to the lady boys of Pilrig, ruminates on leviathans, and puts in a good word for scruffy unfortunates.
In almost every part of the world, the dragonfly symbolises change, transformation, harmony, and good luck. In some cultures it represents summer and autumn, in others admiration, respect, power, and victory.
Louise Nichol owns The Dragonfly, a small independent gift shop in bohemian Broughton Street. She wanted a strong name to represent the passionate spirit behind the extensive eclectic mix of pieces on sale here, all personally chosen for this pocket-sized treasure trove.
Many thanks to reader Mark Saunders, who has sent us this upbeat vision of future developments.
It was conceived, perhaps, through topaz-coloured spectacles.
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Call for Artists
Come all ye artists!
The Golden Turd needs you!
you, who can glorify the work
on this blue January day
who can scale the concrete towers
more impregnable than the Castle
and the cranes towering taller still
like ancient siege equipment.
Good news on Broughton Street!
SGN this morning announced that work to replace gas mains has been going well … so well in fact that they now expect to reopen the street about two weeks ahead of schedule.
The London Street–Albany Street section will reopen to two-way traffic from 6.00am on Tuesday 26 February.
The Albany Street–York Place section will follow suit by Friday 15 March, provided works by a separate contractor at the top of the hill have completed.
City of Edinburgh councillors are currently considering the business case for extending the tramline to Newhaven.
They will debate a report on the subject at the Transport & Environment Committee on 28 February. This, if approved, will then be discussed and voted upon at a meeting of the full Council on 14 March.
INDECENCY OFFENCE ON GEORGE STREET
Police in Edinburgh released a press release this morning. We reproduce it below unedited and in full.
Police in Edinburgh have released an image of a man that officers wish to trace in connection with an investigation into an indecency offence in the city centre.
The incident happened at around 11.30am on Saturday 26th January within a coffee shop in George Street.
ALARMING SMASH AT YORK PLACE. — A collision between a 3-ton motor lorry and a tramcar at the crossing of York Place, Edinburgh, and Broughton Street, caused some alarm yesterday forenoon.
While the lorry, belonging to the A.C.S. Motor Company, was turning from York Place into Broughton Street, it skidded and crashed broadside into a tramcar which was proceeding northwards down Broughton Street, and partially knocked it off the permanent way.
A head for figures is helpful in any business. A PhD in Economics and a career in finance can’t do any harm either.
But for Adam and Isabelle Rosevear of Rosevear Tea, it all boils down to flavour.
‘For us, the main thing is taste,’ says Adam. ‘Our choice of stock is based on blind tastings, not price or reputation.’
The result is a blossoming small business with three outlets (Clerk Street, Bruntsfield Place, and Broughton Street), a warehouse, and a team of 11 staff.
The Development Management Sub-committee this afternoon granted planning permission for Moolmoor (Waverley) Limited’s proposal for a new building on the current roof of Waverley Mall (Ref. 18/02748/FUL).
The C-shaped structure, clad in bronze copper alloy, will house some combination of retail units, offices, and cafés/restaurants.
The dust has not yet settled on the Stead’s Place proposal, controversially refused planning permission last week. Already, though, another development is in the offing over the road.
Edinburgh-based CW Properties has registered a proposal of application notice for a major development on land east of 139 Leith Walk (Ref. 19/00415/PAN).