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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WOMAN?
Wednesday 11 April 2012 - 00:00
Newly arrived in Broughton (we think late last month), this cheerful face with scarf spills from a blocked-up window in Gayfield Square.The portrait…
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ASPARAGUS AND SMOKED SALMON TARTLETS
Tuesday 10 April 2012 - 09:08
Surrounded by the remnants of my half-eaten Easter eggs this weekend, I was searching for something to make that didn’t involve chocolate but was…
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DARK CONTINENTS IN WORLDS APART
Monday 9 April 2012 - 11:16
Contrary to first impressions, there is common ground in the work of Stewart Bremner and Kevin Low, who appear to make unlikely fellow exhibitors in…
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KEN CLARK – MAN BEHIND THE MURAL
Thursday 5 April 2012 - 11:12
In Issues 203 and 205 we mentioned our chance discovery of and subsequent introduction to a relative of Ken Clark. Clark was the designer…
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COUNCIL PLANNERS DEAF TO NOISE CONCERNS
Thursday 5 April 2012 - 09:56
The new Coop supermarket at 8 McDonald Road has been granted permission to extend its trading hours (Ref. 11/0420/FUL). From now on it will be open…
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FUN TIMES AND A WEE THANK YOU ABOUT THE OFFICE PHOTOCOPIER
Tuesday 3 April 2012 - 00:00
It’s often said that April is the cruellest month (blimmin’ T.S. Eliot fans cluttering up the place) but we have to disagree.The Met Office may…
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MRS CHARLES DICKENS – THE BROUGHTON CONNECTION
Monday 2 April 2012 - 22:56
In this the bicentenary of her husband's birth, John Ross Maclean examines a local girl's remarkable but under-remarked biography. Mrs Charles…
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LOCALS PLAN TO PRESERVE HISTORIC PILRIG
Monday 2 April 2012 - 08:29
In Issue 205, we dealt with concerns arising from the recent relaxation of planning regulations ('Common sense and/or the lack of it'). Many people…
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LOCALS POOH-POOH BELLEVUE BIOMASS PROPOSAL
Sunday 1 April 2012 - 23:23
It never rains but it poohs. No sooner has Forth Ports's hugely controversial proposal for a biomass plant in Leith Docks been seen off than a new…
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ISSUE 205 – OUT SOON!
Friday 30 March 2012 - 12:17
The journalistic Dundee cake which is Issue 205 has risen and browned nicely in the cooker of printing machinery, and will be served across Broughton…
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