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MYSTERIOUSLY ORNATE

Pictured right is one of two grubbily elaborate basement doors on the east side of North St David's Street. They are unlike any we've seen in the New…
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LOOS, MEWS AND ECO DESIGN NEWS

A New Town resident seeks planning permission to demolish this 3-space flat-roofed garage and replace it with a two-bedroom, 2-bathroom, 3-loo mews…
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SPRING BANK HOLIDAY

Nothing of any consequence happened in Broughton today. Or, if it did, nobody bothered to tell the Spurtle about it. Here, instead (right), is a…
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PILRIG VIBRATES TO JOYOUS VAISAKHI

Members of Edinburgh's Sikh community paraded this lunchtime in a colourful (and noisy) celbration of Vaisakhi. The parade assembled on Mill Lane,…
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CLEANER BROUGHTON STARTS CLOSE TO HOME

After the Spurtle's recent investigation into rubbish problems in Broughton, I feel compelled to write about it further (Breaking news, 9.4.14).…
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FRONT AND CENTRE, ALL TOGETHER NOW

Two free workshops will run early next month using First World War artefacts as starting-points for discussion, stories and drama. Organised by…
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NEW FLATS PLAN FOR FUSION HOUSE – PLANNING UPDATE

AMA (New Town) Ltd has applied for planning consent to convert 73 Logie Green Road into 34 residential units with 32 car parking spaces (Ref. 14/…
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BROUGHTON'S SANDY HILL – SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY?

Locals report that, as feared, ground has begun to slip down the steep bank between the Claremonts and Broughton Road following pre-development…
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SMAUG'S BOARD OF ARCHITECTURE

Rising into the air above Canonmills is this pepperpot turret.Close-up, it resembles the sinuous limb of a dragon, but it is sheathed in what…
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'WE SHALL NOT CEASE FROM EXPLORATION' – GROUP 13 AT THE UNION GALLERY

Group13 is a combination of highly accomplished and highly rated contemporary Scottish artists reuniting for their third joint exhibition, this time…
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