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A PARSNIP, A PENGUIN AND OTHER PECULIAR PLEASURES

RHYS FULLERTON REVIEWS DERRICK GUILD'S MOTHER FIGURESA diamond-encrusted parsnip. Subliminal messages within a still life. A leaf wearing…
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SPICK AND SPAN SPURTLESHIRE JUST AROUND THE CORNER

Trade waste containers for licensed premises, shops  and restaurants have been multiplying over the past few years, writes local resident John…
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SPURTLESHIRE HOSTS MORE DEBATES

Following on from the Spurtle's hustings event last month, the BBC is holding tonight's Scotland Leaders’ election debate in the Mansfield Traquair…
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DELIGHTS AND DISCOMBOBULATIONS

This intriguing ensemble is called ‘Gorlitzer Bahnhof’. It is by the contemporary Scottish artist Gardner Muirhead and appears as part of his…
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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES 6

DAVID HILL ON RODNEY AND BROUGHTON STREET HAUNTS – THE GHOSTLY AND THE GHASTLY Ghost signs – hand-painted traces of an earlier generation's…
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ISSUE 240 – OUT SOON!

What is that strange excitement in the air? What is that gathering vibration? Is it the tremor of erupting crocuses? Is it the massed yawns of…
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FAR-SIGHTED GALLERY PLANS FOR CITY OBSERVATORY COMPLEX

City of Edinburgh Council and The Collective gallery have come forward with plans for a major re-imagining of the Observatory Complex on Calton Hill…
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VERNAL ON THE RIDICULOUS

Spring in Edinburgh. First, let's start with the theory. Pictured right, the window of a Rodney Street café has been decorated with…
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TOUGH LOVE FOR SPOILT PUDDOCKY

Many Broughton residents are avowed Nature lovers.Many spend hours studying or attempting to improve the lot of our scaly, feathered and four-footed…
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PARLIAMENT, PEDALLED ON

To everyone's relief, the sun shone on this afternoon's Pedal on Parliament. Thousands gathered in the Meadows at lunchtime, before cycling…
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