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VOTERS – DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER!

If you want to vote in the forthcoming City of Edinburgh Council elections, you must be registered by Wednesday 18 April. That's Wednesday of this…
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MISSING BEAR IN THE NEW TOWN

This fluffy black cat has been missing from St Vincent Street since Easter Sunday. A well-known local character, 'Bear' wears a black collar and is…
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CHIVAS HALF THE PRICE: WHISKY KISS IN THE BIG APPLE

Whisky Kiss are representing Broughton in the Big Apple for New York Tartan Week, writes bassist Iain MacPhail.The main gig for the local 'souped-up…
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RED FOX NO BRUSH

On this page is more street-art spotted in Broughton over recent days.On the corner of Gayfield Square and Street appears this spray-paint stencilled…
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HOWARD HOTEL MEWS WITH THE TIMES – PLANNING UPDATE (10.4.12)

The Howard Hotel (at 34 Great King Street) seeks planning permission to develop 7 new bedrooms in a disused mews building at 16 Cumberland Street…
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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WOMAN?

Newly arrived in Broughton (we think late last month), this cheerful face with scarf spills from a blocked-up window in Gayfield Square.The portrait…
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ASPARAGUS AND SMOKED SALMON TARTLETS

Surrounded by the remnants of my half-eaten Easter eggs this weekend, I was searching for something to make that didn’t involve chocolate but was…
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DARK CONTINENTS IN WORLDS APART

Contrary to first impressions, there is common ground in the work of Stewart Bremner and Kevin Low, who appear to make unlikely fellow exhibitors in…
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KEN CLARK – MAN BEHIND THE MURAL

In Issues 203 and 205 we mentioned our chance discovery of and subsequent introduction to a relative of Ken Clark. Clark was the designer…
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COUNCIL PLANNERS DEAF TO NOISE CONCERNS

The new Coop supermarket at 8 McDonald Road has been granted permission to extend its trading hours (Ref. 11/0420/FUL). From now on it will be open…
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