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DRUMMOND DISCOVERS JOHN MUIR
Thursday 24 February 2011 - 12:52
This year a new Wider Achievement Opportunity – The John Muir Award – was introduced in Drummond Community High School. Student Bilal Shahid tells…
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HERE WE GO AGAIN ... ANOTHER SUPERMARKET EYES BROUGHTON
Tuesday 22 February 2011 - 17:25
Independent Leith Walk traders were left stunned yesterday – almost speechless – at news that yet another supermarket may open soon in Broughton.The…
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THERE IS HOPE ...
Monday 21 February 2011 - 09:02
It may feel as if this winter will never end, but there's light at the end of the tunnel.A wander around the Botanic Gardens yesterday afternoon, in…
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MORE TEA, BROUGHTON?
Monday 21 February 2011 - 08:00
Contact the Elderly is a national charity running a national 'Campaign to End Loneliness' this week. Since 1965 it has believed reaching out to those…
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DAVID PEACOCK: A RETROSPECTIVE
Friday 18 February 2011 - 16:24
David Peacock – whose retrospective shows at Northumberland Street's Gallery on the Corner until 26 February – was born on 28 October 1945 and…
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LEARNING TO BE HUMAN AT THE UNION GALLERY
Friday 18 February 2011 - 14:25
Union Gallery's new exhibition features the work of two Edinburgh-based artists who approach 'Being Human' from quite different angles.Audrey Grant…
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TENTERFIELD WAS NO DUMPING GROUND
Thursday 17 February 2011 - 09:29
Local author Margaret Irvine will be at McDonald Road Library on 26 February to discuss her autobiographical Tenterfield, My Happy Childhood in Care…
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STATISTICS REVEAL EDINBURGH'S SAFEST DRIVERS
Thursday 17 February 2011 - 00:00
Statistics produced by the Scottish Government suggest two unlikely groups as Edinburgh's safest drivers.Between 2005 and 2009 the safest way of…
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LAZAROWICZ TO HOST FAIRTRADE DISCUSSION
Wednesday 16 February 2011 - 18:26
Edinburgh North and Leith MP Mark Lazarowicz is to host a free, public meeting to discuss Fairtrade on 5 March.He is inviting experts, practitioners…
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STICKERED CITY
Wednesday 16 February 2011 - 17:08
Broughton's proliferating stickers are at their thickest where Broughton Street meets York Place.Just about every vertical pole and lamppost is…
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