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BELLEVUE CRASH AND CARRY TRIES AGAIN

Batleys on McDonald Place seeks temporary permission to trade on Sundays (Ref. 15/02378/FUL)The business has applied for a temporary variation on…
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BATTLE FOR THE BANK RESUMES

Residents are fighting a new plan to develop the 2,660 sq.m. bank behind 32–62 Broughton Road (Ref. 15/02335/FUL). The proposal is for eight 4-…
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BASEMENT BLUES

An exhibition of work by Charly Murray and Javier Ternero provides a delicious contrast to the noise and vibration of Haddington Place.Quiet City…
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PURRY OLD BURIAL

This is rather sweet.A somewhat eroded stone cat sits patiently on its companion's grave ... not so much Greyfriars Bobby as Rosebank Moggie.We…
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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES 8

WARRISTON CRESCENT AND EILDON STREET  What on earth is a flâneur? In Charles Baudelaire's Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne, he was the artist-…
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COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA TURNS 20

The Stockbridge and New Town Community Orchestra celebrates its 20th anniversary tonight with a concert in Stockbridge Parish Church (Saxe-Coburg…
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HEAVEN HOLDS A PLACE FOR THOSE WHO SLURP

Regarding Broughton Street on a wet Wednesday afternoon in late May, who is not instantly reminded of Passadena?Are those lampposts not reminiscent…
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ARTWORK OF THE MONTH

MONTAUTI'S 'BUST OF AN OLD GROTESQUE WOMAN' Not all art has to be about pretty pictures, writes Rhys Fullerton. Sometimes art will show us…
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AND A FEW MORE FROM YESTERDAY

Events like this don't happen on our doorstep every day, so forgive just a few more images of yesterday's Gretna commemoration and then we'll stop.…
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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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