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Thick as bricks

Dear Spurtle,

The bin outside 6 Scotland Street was dropped on its side a week ago when the Council tried to empty it. This is not a complaint about the Council, who do their best in the face of the clarty citizens of Edinburgh.

This bin has a quantity of builder's rubble in it. It's just too heavy and crucially too top-heavy. This is because the rubble is resting not just on household waste but also on empty cardboard boxes.

Not only clarty but utterly thoughtless.

Anon

(New Town)

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OLD BUILDING WITH A CASE OF THE SHAKES

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A local resident has been left alarmed and exasperated by damage to his building which he suspects has been caused by tramwork-related vibration.

Alex Poole lives in a second-floor flat on Haddington Place. In March this year he noticed a new crack on a recently painted interior wall at the front of his home. He raised the issue with Trams to Newhaven (TtN), but as the crack didn’t get any worse he thought little of it.

SERIOUS ASSAULT – POLICE RELEASE CCTV IMAGE

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Police Scotland issued the following press release this morning. We reproduce it below unedited and in full.

Officers in Edinburgh have released an image of a man they believe may be able to assist with their enquiries following a serious assault which took place in the Forth Street area around 9.50pm on Monday 7 June 2021.  As a result of the incident a man required hospital treatment.

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