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PURRY OLD BURIAL

This is rather sweet.A somewhat eroded stone cat sits patiently on its companion's grave ... not so much Greyfriars Bobby as Rosebank Moggie.We…
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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES 8

WARRISTON CRESCENT AND EILDON STREET  What on earth is a flâneur? In Charles Baudelaire's Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne, he was the artist-…
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COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA TURNS 20

The Stockbridge and New Town Community Orchestra celebrates its 20th anniversary tonight with a concert in Stockbridge Parish Church (Saxe-Coburg…
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HEAVEN HOLDS A PLACE FOR THOSE WHO SLURP

Regarding Broughton Street on a wet Wednesday afternoon in late May, who is not instantly reminded of Passadena?Are those lampposts not reminiscent…
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ARTWORK OF THE MONTH

MONTAUTI'S 'BUST OF AN OLD GROTESQUE WOMAN' Not all art has to be about pretty pictures, writes Rhys Fullerton. Sometimes art will show us…
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AND A FEW MORE FROM YESTERDAY

Events like this don't happen on our doorstep every day, so forgive just a few more images of yesterday's Gretna commemoration and then we'll stop.…
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QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS

Spurtle likes this armless addition in mid-air on Queen Street Gardens East.How long has it it been there? We don't know.How long before it is taken…
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TODAY'S GRETNA COMMEMORATION

Parades and an act and service of remembrance took place this morning to mark the centenary of the Gretna Train Disaster.There was pomp, circumstance…
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WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

'In memory of officers, non-commissioned officers and men 1:7th Batallion the Royal Scots, Leith Territorial Battalion, who met their death at Gretna…
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PETTY CRIME'S A COMPLETE PANE

The crime rate in Edinburgh was 35 per cent lower in 2014 than in 2004, according to Scottish Government Crime Statistics.Try telling that to the…
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