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QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS

Spurtle likes this armless addition in mid-air on Queen Street Gardens East.How long has it it been there? We don't know.How long before it is taken…
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TODAY'S GRETNA COMMEMORATION

Parades and an act and service of remembrance took place this morning to mark the centenary of the Gretna Train Disaster.There was pomp, circumstance…
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WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

'In memory of officers, non-commissioned officers and men 1:7th Batallion the Royal Scots, Leith Territorial Battalion, who met their death at Gretna…
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PETTY CRIME'S A COMPLETE PANE

The crime rate in Edinburgh was 35 per cent lower in 2014 than in 2004, according to Scottish Government Crime Statistics.Try telling that to the…
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TWO'S COMPANY FOR HAPPY BINS

I have spent quite a lot of time recently skulking behind bins in the Bellevue and Claremont area, writes Fred Street of the New Town Clean Streets…
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BABEL FABLE AND SOUND IN THE ROUND

RHYS FULLERTON REVIEWS: SLAVS AND TATARS' LEKTORLektor is a solo-exhibition and new commission in Collective’s City Dome by art collective Slavs…
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LEITH ACADEMY PAYS FLORAL TRIBUTE

Pupils from Leith Academy were out in force today in advance of the Gretna/Quintinshill Rail Disaster ceremony at the weekend.Their stencilled…
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DOZEN BUZZIN' AS BIG DAY APPROACHES

Twelve parents and staff from Broughton Primary School will take part in the Hairy Haggis Team Relay at the end of this month. In doing so, they…
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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES 7: BELLEVUE

In Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, explorer Marco Polo regales Kublai Khan with tales of the mysterious and perhaps fabulous places he encounters…
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NOSEDIVE ON NELSON STREET

The driver of this car had a lucky escape in the New Town last night.He was turning downhill into Nelson Street at around 7.00pm but misjudged the…
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