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St STEPHEN'S – NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS

The St Stephen’s Playfair Trust (SSPT) shows unmistakeable signs of frustration with the prospective buyer of St Stephen’s Church. He or she is not…
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PLACE, MOVEMENT AND PUBLIC SPACES

To saunter up Bellevue into Mansfield Place, writes David Hill, and survey, in the middle distance, the gentle ascent of Broughton Street into the…
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STEEL SAILS ON WINDSWEPT PERTH STREET

This elegant combination of triangles in steel mesh, suspended from a tapering tubular arc, stands at the end of Perth Street and is called ‘…
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SHIPSHAPE ELM – COMMUNITY SPRING CLEAN

Are you sick of stickers? Do you find graffiti grates? Does fly-posting really cheese you off? Stop moaning, then, and do something practical to…
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TOO-WIT TO-WOO AND ONE OF TWO

This perky but eroded owl is one of a pair at No. 20 Brandon Street, formerly the plant floor of Edinburgh printers R.& R. Clark. The company was…
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INCOMPLETE GARAGE NOT COMPLETELY FINISHED

Anyone who thought they had seen the last of this remarkable structure at 8 East Scotland Street Lane should think again.In August last year,…
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TRAMS START ON 31 MAY – BROUGHTON PREPARES TO WELCOME THE WORLD

The first commercial tram service linking the world to Broughton will depart from the Gyle Centre at 5.00am on Saturday 31 May. Between now and then…
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THE CHOP OF THE NEW

I am a creature of habit.  I don’t like change and I don’t deal with it well. I get my hair cut at Larry’s Barber Shop on Montgomery…
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ISSUE 229 – OUT SOON!

Too hot? Fear not! Issue 229 has been designed in Italy to fold easily into a convenient and accurately spelt micro-bikini, sun hat or protective…
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BYE-BYE, BRUTALISM – WORK ON St JAMES QUARTER TO BEGIN IN 2015

Building the new St James Quarter seems to have taken a big step closer thanks to 'major' new funding arrangements agreed by City of Edinburgh…
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