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SOUND-PROOFED CHURCH WOULD NOT BE DISRUPTIVE

The Grace Church, Leith seeks planning permission for a change of use from Class 11 (Assembly and leisure) to a church (Class 10 Non-residential…
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1890–93 WOMAN FOUND DROWNED IN EDINBURGH. At about half-past one this morning the body of a woman was found floating in the mill lade at Canonmills…
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LATEST PROPOSALS FOR BETTER BROUGHTON STREET

COMMUNITY COUNCIL’S CONSIDERED VIEW Local resident and former MP Mark Lazarowicz first publicised proposals to improve Broughton Street for…
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OUTER HOUSE. (Before Lord Wellwood.) DIVORCE CASES. […] On the ground of cruelty, Mary Ewart or Ross, 37 India Place, Edinburgh, sought separation…
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THE STOCKBRIDGE MURDER CASE 1889 Part VI AN EFFORT TO EXERCISE CALM JUDGEMENT –––––––––––––– The law has been allowed to “take its course” upon…
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COUNCIL SEES NO PROBLEM WITH INVISIBLE TWEAKS

MOVE ALONG, PLEASE. NOTHING TO SEE HERE. Readers may remember how on 1 and 3 July Spurtle reported the not-altogether-convincing…
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MANSFIELD PLACE ADVERTS PLAN – LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN?

It is now almost a week since details of a proposal to erect four advertisement hoardings on the Mansfield Place roundabout appeared online.…
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  THE STOCKBRIDGE MURDER CASE 1889 Part V THE CROWD ON CALTON HILL –––––––––––––– It is well nigh a generation and a half ago since…
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THE STOCKBRIDGE MURDER CASE 1889 Part IV THE EXECUTION. –––––––––––––– Within the prison walls the bright morning made things look quite…
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SPONSORED ROUNDABOUT A BAD IDEA

COUNCIL CUTTING OFF NOSE TO BEAUTIFY FACE Community Partners Ltd of Halifax, on behalf of Edinburgh University, seeks to erect four non-…
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