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LOCAL SCOUTS JOIN FORCES FOR JAMBORETTE

Local Scouts from Broughton and Greenside recently camped together at the Blair Atholl International Patrol Jamborette – the premier Scottish Scout…
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TRENDY CELT'S DESIGNS ON BAXTER'S PLACE

New plans are in the offing for empty and increasingly derelict-looking properties at 1–5 Baxter's Place (Issue 203).Dublin-based Trendy Celt Limited…
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LOCAL PARKS MAINTAIN STANDARDS

Inverleith Park, Victoria Park, Hopetoun Crescent Gardens and London Road Gardens have retained their coveted Green Flag awards this summer,…
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SHAKEN ALBANY STREET FIGHTS BACK

Albany Street residents and businesspeople have responded angrily to diverted traffic running through the New Town. Several have now begun…
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LOCAL GALLERY SEEKS ASC TRAINEES

The Gallery on the Corner (34 Northumberland Street) seeks five new trainees to work eight hours a week on a temporary one-year contract.Successful…
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HIC SUNT DRAGONES

In some ways a map is one of the least useful tools for finding one's way about a city.Notwithstanding whatever qualities of internal consistency it…
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EDINBURGH TREASURES

The 17 designers exhibiting works at Whitespace this month were each randomly allotted a photograph by another member of the group. The picture had…
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GRINDING OF TEETH BUT NO GRIDLOCK

Contrary to some self-appointed experts' predictions, Edinburgh did not grind to a halt this morning. There was no gridlock.Spurtle observed the York…
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LEITH WALK IMPROVEMENTS – HAVE YOUR SAY

Locals will have a chance to make their voices heard, and exert a little pressure, at two public events next week to discuss improvements for Leith…
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HOTTIES 'WORSE THAN FOOTBALLERS' SAYS WHISKY KISS SUPREMO – T IN THE PARK 2012

'The streets of London are paved with gold!' cried Dick Whittington, a delusional but socially mobile 14th-century pauper-turned-mayor.Bilfinger…
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