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:

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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 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.

'We'll pay for it!' No. 14 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.

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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.

Thoughtful new kid on the block filmed in Spurtleshire back-green by Tim Smith.

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If you’re looking for an inspiring afternoon out in Edinburgh on 25 June, why not join the hosts of the open gardens of Stockbridge (and surrounds) and have a bogle at their plots full of plants?

Under the Scotland’s Gardens Scheme umbrella, from 12 noon until 4.30 pm, a trail of eight private city gardens will tempt visitors to explore the New Town, Stockbridge and Canonmills area, where the owners will be on hand to answer questions and receive compliments!

Odd perspectives in yesterday's sunlit Botanics. 

This is actually one photograph, cropped to confuse … not a composite.

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As you read this, advance copies of the JUNE Spurtle are already sprinkling across Broughton shelves like American tourists in search of a bathroom.

Issue 329 begins with news of a falling pie, influential views, a droop-defying local artist and the uncertain intentions of a new Gayfield venue.