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EAST END DRIVEN ROUND THE BEND

If you find yourself caught up in slow-moving East End traffic over the next few days, here are 15 possible explanations. We found them on the…
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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES 16

THE BALLAD OF DUNDAS STREET I settle into the window seat and watch as a light drizzle attempts to motivate late afternoon. Behind me, the…
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EDINBURGH SAFARI (9)

For our next Edinburgh safari, we’re leaving the realms of everyday beasties and going all mythological. Not for us, though, your run-of-the-…
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POST OFFICE CLOSURE IS AN IMPROVEMENT

Warriston Post Office in Brandon Terrace has closed. But locals still mourning the loss of the London Street and Newhaven Road POs, the loss of…
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HOTEL DEVELOPERS GAIN EXTRA TIME

Scottish Government reporters have today granted a sist (a legal delay) to the appeals by Duddingston House Properties (DHP) and the Urbanist Group…
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SAD NEWS FROM ROSEBANK

One doesn’t expect happy news from a cemetery, so none of what follows should come as a particular surprise. These researches are not intended…
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FREE PERSONALITY TEST FOR ALL READERS

Look at the spray-painted image adjacent and reproduced at greater magnification below. It appears about halfway along the Rodney Street Tunnel…
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FULL TO OVERFLOWING

Last Thursday we repeated on Facebook and Twitter the question raised in September’s printed version of the Spurtle: Has Edinburgh reached saturation…
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SEASONS’ GREETINGS

If you’re in any doubt about whether we are now enjoying the end of summer or the beginning of autumn, you have two ways to settle the question.…
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GOLDEN START FOR SEPTEMBER

Local resident Pam Neilson (left) was joined by Deidre Brock MP in the run-up to this evening’s special illumination of St Andrew Square. Golden…
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