SERIOUS ASSAULT IN St MARK'S PARK
Detectives appeal for witnesses
Police Scotland issued a press release this morning (Thursday 15 June) which we reproduce below unedited and in full.
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EYRE PLACE PLANS REFUSED
A Reporter acting for Scottish Ministers has refused planning permission for a proposed development on the former Jewson’s site at 72–4 Eyre Place.
STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE
If you’re concerned that the person with dementia you care for may wander off and become lost, here is a useful stitch in time.
Download a Herbert Protocol form from Police Scotland here.
Once completed, the form includes details about the individual’s routines, habits, appearance and other people involved in their care. It should be accompanied by an up-to-date photo.
CALTON HILL
Brutalist blushing.
No. 15 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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Memories of a community cinema
Dear Spurtle,
When I was about 10 years old, I used to travel from Pilton up to the Ritz Cinema on a Saturday morning to sing the song of the ABC minors along with an audience of other kids.
I think there were various things on offer, but I only had enough for a bus fare either way and entry money. I think they occasionally showed a serial, but somebody else would need to confirm that.
Everybody seemed to enjoy the singing, and you felt part of a community and more so as the Second World War had just finished.
Bob Sinclair
Australia
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EDITOR:–The Ritz Cinema on Rodney Street, which opened in 1929, was the first movie theatre in Edinburgh designed to show ‘talkies’. It survived until 1981. Lee Dalgetty’s interesting synthesis about the ‘courting picture house’ appears on @edinburghlive here and includes archive film footage of the structure being built.
Do any other readers have memories of this Broughton institution’s life and times? If so, please contact us at: spurtle@hotmail.co.uk
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GREAT BIG GREEN DAY
Friends of Hopetoun Crescent Garden will host a Community Day on Sunday 18 June (11am–1pm) as part of the Great Big Green Week.
Activities include:
BROUGHTON TO NEWHAVEN TRAMS
START TOMORROW
Journalists and elected representatives travelled from Broughton to Newhaven this afternoon in advance of the first paying customers using the extension from midday tomorrow.
POLICE LAUNCH MURDER INQUIRY AFTER FRIDAY'S DISTURBANCE ON LEITH STREET
Police Scotland issued the following press release this evening. We reproduce it unedited and in full.
A murder inquiry has been launched following the death of a 30-year-old man in Edinburgh.
Around 7.45pm on Friday, 2 June, 2023, officers were called to a report of a disturbance on Leith Street near to the junction with Greenside Row.
Peter Mullen, 30, of Edinburgh, suffered serious injuries and was taken by ambulance to Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, where he died a short time later.
SUMMER PLACE
'We'll pay for it!' No. 14 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
Visit: https://scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/scotland-1/
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INAUGURAL NEW TOWN ART MONTH LAUNCHES NEXT WEEK
The inaugural New Town Art Month will run from 7 to 24 June in 11 venues across Edinburgh’s ‘incredible art quarter’.
The map below shows you who and where they are.
Launched and led by Chloé Nelkin Consulting, NTAM promises paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, ceramics and bronze editions highlighting the work of international and home-grown Scottish artists alongside prodigious emerging talent.