For many children, reaching the end of their primary-school careers is an emotional experience.
The last day in particular can be a time of high drama: of laughter, tears, and heartfelt hugs.
Not this year. Covid-19 has kept young people at home, or at least a soul-sapping 2m apart. And so many have found new ways to let their pent-up feelings out.
The simple messages on railings outside Broughton Primary School say it all.
James Graham pleaded guilty, at the City Police Court, to having behaved in a disorderly manner yesterday in a stair leading to, and knocked in the panel of the door of his brother-in-law’s house in New Broughton. He also assaulted the two constables who arrested him. A fine of 20s was imposed, with the option of ten days in jail.
Edinburgh Evening News, 11 September 1883
At noon today, the National Records of Scotland published statistics relating to coronavirus (Covid-19) in Scotland.
For the first time this week, some of those data were broken down by Intermediate Zones (IZs). These provide granular detail for how different parts of the country have been affected, but not in so much detail that individuals can be identified.
Police Scotland issued the following press release yesterday.
We reproduce it unedited and in full.
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Detectives are continuing their enquiries and appealing for information after two men attempted to rob a man in Edinburgh on Friday, 12 June, 2020.
Around 3.45pm on Friday afternoon, the two suspects approached a 66 year-old man near to Gayfield Square in Edinburgh. They threatened him with a knife and demanded money. The victim refused and the men walked off.
At the City Police Court, before Bailie Rowatt, a young man, named Patrick M’Gachie, was accused of committing a breach of the peace in Rose Street and Rose Street Lane on Thursday night, and at the same time obstructing and molesting two police officers, and attempting to rescue a female prisoner then in their charge.
Asparagus is one of my absolute favourite ingredients – as well as being one of the many ingredients I discovered after moving to the UK. Growing up in Italy, we mostly had white asparagus and, in particular, the local variety called Asparago di Bassano. Ten years on, springtime has now become for me synonymous with asparagus, and I really relish the freshness and versatility of this wonder-vegetable.
As Spurtle has reported on several occasions in recent weeks, there are widespread misgivings about the speed (and questionable democratic credentials) with which emergency measures are being drafted and enacted in response to the Covid-19 crisis.
Some people and organisations grit their teeth and push through that sense of unease. This seems to have been the general approach of the New Town & Broughton Community Council.
Yesterday we reported the mysterious overnight felling of a tree in Warriston Playing Fields.