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" Plans for two new 15-storey blocks at Leith’s Ocean Point will create “an Edinburgh Manhattan” on a tiny area of land at the waterfront, residents have claimed". More on this: tinyurl.com/2j3ykhww

With @edinplayhouse’s new digital screen in place and what looks like an even larger one taking shape on the front of the #OmniCentre, could Picardy Place one day become #Edinburgh’s Piccadilly Circus or even Times Square?

Well done to the @TramstoNewhaven team who were awarded Project of the Year over €50m at the Global Light Rail Awards in London yesterday 🎉 The team included the Council, Sacyr Farrans Neopul, Morrisons Utility Services, @SiemensMobility, @turnertownsend + @anturas_consult

Does @saveleithwalk know its website's hijacked by cuckoo in the nest, Hudson Hunt: "a driving force within the esteemed organization, Save Leith Walk."🙀 Any ideas @theSpurtle @leithcentralcc @TheLeither @theferret @allytibbitt @EdinReporter @leithdepot? saveleithwalk.org/about-hudson/

Also caught up with John Swinney, who was the finance secretary at the time the project was being built and running into financial troubles - he told @LBC @LBCNews the governance decisions he took "were the correct ones"

When will Lord Andrew Hardie's public inquiry report of Edinburgh Trams, with publishers since Apr 2023, be 'released' for scrutiny by its paying citizens? @edintraminquiry @EdinburghTrams @Edinburgh_CC @AngusRobertson @DeidreBrock @theSpurtle #TRAMStoNEWHAVEN #TramInquiry