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RHYS FULLERTON ON CLAUDE MONET'S HAYSTACKS: SNOW EFFECTI admit that this painting is not Monet’s greatest, writes Rhys Fullerton. I agree that it’s…
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LONDON STREET BIDS BYE-BYE TO THE BEAKS

The keenly  awaited results of the Council’s much anticipated ballot on the widely loathed gull-proof waste sacks on London Street have been…
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NO DIRECTION

There I am taking a quiet stroll on Calton Hill one lukewarm spring day, when I am interrupted by some confused-looking tourists. ‘Excuse me,'…
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COLOURS IN THE SPECTRUM

Today is World Autism Awareness Day, as part of which important buildings and structures around the globe are being lit up blue. There are…
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EDNBURGH'S WANDERING KIRK

In April's Spurtle, John Ross Maclean describes the Ruskin pencil drawing of 1838 (now in Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery), which was long held…
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'RE-PROFILED' DRUMMOND PLAYGROUND PROMISES GROWTH

Urban planning experts say there's a strong case for flattening the space outside Drummond Community High School. But they face an uphill task…
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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES 3: BARONY STREET

DAVID HILL VOYAGES UPRIVER In Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow suggests that we live as we dream – alone. Others' innermost thoughts and…
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ISSUE 239 – OUT SOON!

Imagine an enormous black and white Easter bunny lolloping out of its burrow and blinking nonchalantly in the bright sunlight of a new dawn.In some…
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QUACKING IN CONCRETE

Love a duck. Who doesn't? We do.And so were delighted to encounter this one in the window of Concrete Wardrobe on Broughton Street this afternoon.…
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RESIST THIS HORRIBLE GREAT LUMP

Brentford-based JCDecaux UK Limited have applied for permission to erect a freestanding steel and aluminium ‘Forum Display Structure’ on George…
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