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ALICIA BRUCE: THE TRUMPING OF THE SANDS

Bellevue photographer Alicia Bruce (right) is having a busy Festival, with pictures in exhibitions at Out of the Blue and the College of Art’s Tent…
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COMMUNITY COUNCIL 14-POINT PLAN ON DIVERSIONS

Following its emergency meeting with councillors and officials on 6 August (see Breaking news, 8.8.12), the New Town and Broughton Community Council…
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ON YOUR MARKS ...

'My pictures have no hidden meaning. To understand, all you have to do is look.'So writes John McLean in the disarmingly clear, five-sentence…
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THE SHOCK OF THE 'NEW TRADITIONAL' – WILL FUSSPOTS BLOCK BROUGHTON JOBS?

Zonal Retail Data Systems (ZRDS) seek planning permission at 14–16 Union Street (Refs 12/02591/FUL; 12/02598/LBC; 12/02599/CON) to demolish an…
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BLUEBERRY AND RASPBERRY ROULADE

I would like to say that I’ve been able to keep my cool and my distance from the Olympic fever that’s invaded the country, but who am I kidding?After…
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IS IT ART? POSSIBLY ...

Villeneuve's manager Carrie Pruitt Bond is disarmingly modest about her design for the wineshop's A-board on Broughton Street.'It was a spur of the…
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'CHALLENGING' HINDS RESPONDS TO DIVERSION CONCERNS

Monday night's emergency session of the New Town and Broughton Community Council to discuss York Place tram works diversions suggests that the tram…
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HOLIDAY FEVER

'Holiday' is a term that exists in every man's mind, writes Felix Kimathi, a former pupil at Drummond CHS's partner Muthambi Boys' School in Kenya.…
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'TARDUS, LONGINQUUS, MACERO' – ISSUE 209 IS ON ITS WAY

If Spurtle's distribution were an Olympic event, it would be the 3,000m steeplechase: frequent, apparently insuperable challenges interspersed by…
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COUNCIL AND RESIDENTS CONSIDER THREE-PIPE PROBLEM

City of Edinburgh Council's Finance and Resources Committee will next week consider approving a £5.5m Leith Improvement Programme (LIP) for north…
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