Talk of the Town: Tramtastic titles for work in progress

NEWS of a new book to accompany the city's tram project has been met with predictable cynicism by the great Edinburgh public.

While progress on the project itself has yet to reach the pace of the best airport thrillers, tram bosses have nevertheless decided to crack on with a photo album chronicling work on the scheme.

It has already been given a name – The People Who Built the Trams – but that hasn't stopped contributors to the Evening News' website suggesting alternatives.

Among our favourites are those hinting at the possible completion date of the project, Catch 2022, a nod to Evelyn Waugh and the seemingly endless holes being dug in the city, Broomhouse Revisited, and perhaps best of all, Lord of the Dings!

City hailed for stag night heaven..or is it more hell?

IT'S a question that has puzzled philosophers for centuries – if God had a stag night, where would he hold it?

Now a travel company claims to have the definitive answer – Edinburgh, of course. Tour operator Last Night of Freedom is using this blurb on its website to promote the Capital as one of the best cities, on heaven or earth, to celebrate.

Not everyone would agree with their conclusion that "the Grassmarket is stag heaven with cobblestones – Guinness galore, whisky chasers and marvellous craic."

But there are no problems spotting hen parties made up of angels around the city centre.

Conehead hazard

THE first rays of sunshine of 2010 brought happy scenes but for some, the sun also brought problems – the dreaded sunburn.

And for one city councillor who is, shall we say, "follically challenged", it brought back unhappy memories of last summer.

Health and social care leader Paul Edie wrote on his blog: "I can't stand too much heat on my head and last year about this time I managed to get bad sunburn on the first warm day.

"A friend suggested yoghurt as a cure.

I smeared it over my head and it cooled me down better than any other after-sun treatment.

"The only downside was I looked like a giant ice-cream cone."

Personality crisis

ACCORDING to its latest marketing campaign it is a local "hotel with personality". But clearly the Braid Hills Hotel is not individual enough for bosses to remember its name on a press release.

They sent out an announcement about a prize balloon competition reading: "BEST WESTERN ( insert hotel name) IS A HOTEL WITH PERSONALITY".

Around half an hour later a correction was sent out amending the time of the event this afternoon, but still omitting the hotel's name.