Environment

Yesterday we reported the mysterious overnight felling of a tree in Warriston Playing Fields.

When Eildon Street residents woke yesterday morning, they found that a tree on the boundary between their road and Warriston Playing Fields had been cut down in the night.

This seems to have been no officially sanctioned felling, or a random slash in the dark by a drunken teenager.

The substantial elder was systematically taken down with a hand saw in secret between 11pm and 7am.

One neighbour, who described the act of vandalism as ‘horrific’, told Spurtle, ‘Locals are fuming and children are devastated as it was a great climbing tree and they used it as a den.’

Congratulations to the Council for the superb beds of spring flowers on the Broughton Street/Mansfield Place roundabout. 

Sometimes these sites are rather bland and ‘serviceable’ in Miss Jean Brodie terms. But just now there is a radiant and variegated mix of bulbs to gladden the hearts of all Wordsworthian spirits. 

Keep up the good work!—JRM