Good morning Edinburgh.

The big news this morning is that Edinburgh Trams and Lothian Buses chairman David Mackay has resigned. He blamed the project's contractor Bilfinger Berger for "making life extremely difficult for the city." We'll bring you full reaction to the news later this morning. Meanwhile you can read a full interview with the departing Mackay in The Scotsman.

We want to hear from local people on this latest development. Where does it leave the trams? And what about the people employed by the project? Get in touch to have your say or comment below.

This morning a crackdown on dangerous homemade bonfires is being led by council and fire service officials in a bid to cut down on the 800 calls local firefighters deal with around bonfire night. The teams will dismantle bonfires before they are lit.

On the blogs and news sites this morning:

Local blogging musician Milo writes here about efforts to save The Forest cafe. Thanks to Milo for getting in touch to tell us about his blog.

Claire Askew of One Night Stanzas has also blogged a lengthy plea to arts lovers to save The Forest.

If you've not had enough of Halloween yet, Creative Boom has posted some creepy pictures taken by local photographer Neil Macmillan after he ventured into some abandoned cottages.

With 7,000 wind turbines set to be built around UK shores over the next 10 years, the Scottish Government announced a £70m investment fund for ports and shipyards across Scotland to "leverage" private funding. This report by Guardian Scotland correspondent Severin Carrell states Leith is among the ports set to benefit from the fund.

The Edinburgh Reporter also has details of the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund.

A court battle over Castle Terrace carpark looks set to end in council-backed developer EDI being handed £5m according to this Evening News report.

Have you heard of NaNoWriMo? It stands for National Novel Writing Month. Local author Nicola Morgan has blogged about why she loves "NaNo" and has found plenty of other writers who do too. Read more here.

Another local author Charlie Stross blogs here about winning awards for the Estonian translations of two of his science fiction novels.

Edinburgh is among eight Scottish council areas to have returned its highest ever average property price, according to The Herald.

Now a fall in house prices is predicted by Scott Brown, a partner at Edinburgh's largest property solicitor Warners. He said:

"These figures from the Registers of Scotland look positive, but it is important to note that they cover transactions which completed between July and September. "Because it can take as much as 12 weeks between an offer being verbally accepted for a property and for the sale to be completed, the figures actually probably relate to sales agreed back in April or May when the market was stronger. "Since then, there has been a definite slowdown in the market which has resulted in a fall in house prices and a drop in the number of sales over the past few months. I have no doubt that the next set of figures from the RoS will reflect this current trend in the property market."

We'll end this morning's round up with a question from Southside and Newington councillor Cameron Rose. In his latest blogpost he asks whether locals have seen more foxes around Sciennes than usual. Rose says he has had two daylight close encounters in 10 days after 14 years without such excitement.

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