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There’s a distinct pantomime theme to the window of Martinez Antiques just now. 

The Brandon Terrace cornucopia always surpasses itself around Christmas, and this year is fringed with theatrical lights as if for a stage performance. 

Closer scrutiny reveals the presence of a snake charmer, Aladdin, genie, and a veritable magic cave of glittering treasures. 

Visit after dark for the full enchanting effect, whilst saving yourself all the cost and inconvenience of a trip to the King’s Theatre Glasgow.

The Powderhall Railway Path Working Group met Leith Central Community Council’s Vice Chair and CEC officials from Active Travel and Housing yesterday. 

PRPWG comprises local residents keen to create a useful new East–West footway/cycle route on redundant track between Powderhall and Meadowbank. The meeting was to discuss next steps. 

 BIG TEST FOR EDINBURGH'S NEW LICENSING STRATEGY 

A planning application has been submitted on behalf of TH Real Estate to build a single-storey extension to the Omni Centre (Ref. 18/10093/FUL). 

Broughton Street welcomed a new arrival on Monday afternoon. 

From 2pm onwards, artist Zoe Gibson worked in the window of Concrete Wardrobe at No. 50A, a study in rapt concentration. 

As the light faded, Gibson – newly graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design – steadfastly ignored the attention of passers-by, one persistent photographer in particular. 

Gradually, her creation took shape.

 END OF A STOREY NOT THE END OF THE STORY 

Drum Property has made significant revisions to its plans for Stead’s Place, reducing the height of the development by one storey on Leith Walk.

It’s nearly December, and Issue 280 is already emerging from the presses into an Edinburgh deep in crisp and even snow, loud with the clink of sleigh bells, steamed by the breath of reindeer on every corner. Or perhaps those weren’t wild Chanterelles after all.

Forth Street-based Edinburgh & Lothians Regional Equality Council is hosting a lecture by Sir Geoffrey Palmer OBE (right) on 17 December in St Augustine's Church. 

The talk will offer new perspectives on Scotland's involvement in the Slave Trade, something with which Broughton was once intimately involved (see Breaking news, 15.11.13). 

Today is Giving Tuesday, ‘a day set aside for people to shun commercialism and support good causes’. 

By no coincidence, it is also the day on which St Mary’s Music School has opted to release a short animated film supporting the message: ‘Whatever the Season … please support St Mary’s Music School.’  

It’s rather charming, and you can view it HERE.

Mixed motives

 OFFICIALS AND COUNCILLORS DID NOT SPOT PROBLEM 

Reader Ash Hughes has identified a different prior-notification sequence to that examined yesterday, this one covering the telecom mast adjacent to Rosebank Cemetery (Ref. 18/01275/PNT). 

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WAS PHONE MAST BUILT IN THE WRONG PLACE? 

Redbraes residents are up in arms about a new telecommunications mast, which appeared this summer on the south side of Broughton Road.