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LEITH BACKS NEW GAELIC ROLE FOR BONNINGTON

Leith Central Community Council will back the former Bonnington Primary School as a stand-alone centre for primary-level, Gaelic-medium education (…
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STRAP ON A SOU'WESTER – ISSUE 192 IS COMING SOON

Spurtle staff are busy dotting the ts and crossing the last of their is as Issue 192 nears completion today.We expect to print on Monday, ready for…
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SCEPTICS STILL SLATING DUNDAS STREET ROOF PLAN

Full details, background papers, plans and drawings are now available for the controversial proposal to mount mobile telephone antennae on Dundas…
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DRUMMOND DISCOVERS JOHN MUIR

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

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 ...

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?

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

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

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

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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