Hunter Square art work is being left to rack and ruin

Body and soul. For you the phrase might recall something spiritual.

- Iain Whyte

Or your thoughts might be musical with the 1930 jazz standard most famously performed by Billie Holliday and more recently revived by Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse.

My cultural reference is more local as it is the name of the sculpture by internationally renowned artist Peter Randall-Page that sits in Hunter Square at the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town.

Commissioned in the closing days of the Regional and District Councils it was installed in 1996 by Old Town Renewal. Unfortunately, lack of maintenance and enforcement meant the bowl-shaped sculpture became a litter dump, dirty water depository and thus a Legionella hazard.