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'TARDUS, LONGINQUUS, MACERO' – ISSUE 209 IS ON ITS WAY

If Spurtle's distribution were an Olympic event, it would be the 3,000m steeplechase: frequent, apparently insuperable challenges interspersed by…
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COUNCIL AND RESIDENTS CONSIDER THREE-PIPE PROBLEM

City of Edinburgh Council's Finance and Resources Committee will next week consider approving a £5.5m Leith Improvement Programme (LIP) for north…
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LOCAL SCOUTS JOIN FORCES FOR JAMBORETTE

Local Scouts from Broughton and Greenside recently camped together at the Blair Atholl International Patrol Jamborette – the premier Scottish Scout…
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TRENDY CELT'S DESIGNS ON BAXTER'S PLACE

New plans are in the offing for empty and increasingly derelict-looking properties at 1–5 Baxter's Place (Issue 203).Dublin-based Trendy Celt Limited…
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LOCAL PARKS MAINTAIN STANDARDS

Inverleith Park, Victoria Park, Hopetoun Crescent Gardens and London Road Gardens have retained their coveted Green Flag awards this summer,…
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SHAKEN ALBANY STREET FIGHTS BACK

Albany Street residents and businesspeople have responded angrily to diverted traffic running through the New Town. Several have now begun…
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LOCAL GALLERY SEEKS ASC TRAINEES

The Gallery on the Corner (34 Northumberland Street) seeks five new trainees to work eight hours a week on a temporary one-year contract.Successful…
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HIC SUNT DRAGONES

In some ways a map is one of the least useful tools for finding one's way about a city.Notwithstanding whatever qualities of internal consistency it…
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EDINBURGH TREASURES

The 17 designers exhibiting works at Whitespace this month were each randomly allotted a photograph by another member of the group. The picture had…
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GRINDING OF TEETH BUT NO GRIDLOCK

Contrary to some self-appointed experts' predictions, Edinburgh did not grind to a halt this morning. There was no gridlock.Spurtle observed the York…
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