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STOP PRESS! IT'S NOT A TESCO

New developments in Canonmills have provoked mixed reactions.Newington-based Earthy have bought a 3-year lease to the row of shops by the bridge (1,…
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DRUMMOND KENYA GROUP STILL SEEK FUNDS

Since the turn of the year, excitement among the Kenya Group has been hotting up, writes  Drummond CHS's Annie Scanlon. Five S5 students and…
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PLANNING UPDATE – 5.3.12

City Planners have now agreed listed building consent for a minor revamp to the exterior of C.C. Bloom's on Greenside Place (Ref. 12/00172/LBC; see…
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LONG WAY FROM HOME

Passers-by were briefly surprised yesterday by the appearance on Mansfield Place of a double-decker London bus.The Routemaster (1962 vintage) was…
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BACK AND FORTH AND BACK AGAIN

Many local readers will have noticed that the controversial reversal of Forth Street's one-way system which had been scheduled for 10am this morning…
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BACK-TO-FRONT FORTH STREET, DUNDAS STREET DISRUPTION, AND CHANGES TO BUSES

From 10am on Monday 5 March, the one-way system on Forth Street will be temporarily reversed, meaning that drivers will not be able to enter from…
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BRIGHT-EYED, BUSHY-TAILED, AND BACK

Dylan, the errant Canonmills tom whose unexplained disappearance sparked search parties along the Water of Leith and a poster campaign across half of…
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YOUR MOSTLY USEFUL GUIDE TO SOME OF WHAT'S ON IN AND AROUND BROUGHTON

Time is fair marching on in 2012 (See what I did there? Marching? Because it’s March? Oh, forget it) so it must be time for a another scintillating…
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BUSINESS AS USUAL AT BROUGHTON PRIMARY

These complex steel warts on the face of a much-loved friend suggest something seriously amiss with the fabric of Broughton Primary School.…
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UP-FRONT NICHE MARKETING TOO STRAIGHT

How many Spurtle readers have gazed recently upon the eastern flank of the Balmoral Hotel and considered its channelled pilasters dividing the ground…
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