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Uncleared leaves in the Dean Valley on its public walkway are causing slippery and unsafe conditions to pedestrians. One walker spoke of recommending that it was not safe for his daughter to use the path. With cold weather on the way and the possibility of the wet leaves becoming frozen this weekend the pathway could become treacherous. So please be careful.
Water of Leith Trust have an update of the Dean landslip. Legal proceedings are currently paused until November for discussions. http://www.waterofleith.org.uk/blog/2019/9/22/latest-news-from-the-council-regarding-the-dean-landslip.html
Ash dieback, a fungus which affects ash trees, is beginning to weaken and kill trees in the Dean village and Dean valley. It is caused by a fungus, Hymenoscyphus fraxineus also known as Chalara ,which blocks the water transport systems in trees causing leaf loss, lesions in the wood and on the bark and ultimately the dieback of the crown of the tree. This disease, first described in Poland in 1992, was first identified in Britain in 2012 in nursery stock and then in the wider environment in 2013 although it could possibly have been around in the country much...
Anthony Gormley’s ‘ironman’ statue has returned to the Water of Leith at Stockbridge, part of a larger installation entitled 6 TIMES which was originally installed along the length of the river in 2010. However those in the river had to be removed because the original design, which allowed the statues to tilt and submerge when the river flow reached certain levels, was unsatisfactory. So modifications have been made to the fixings so that those sculptures are now permanently fixed to their mounts. Simon Groom, Director of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Galleries of Scotland said that they were...

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