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CCTV APPEAL AFTER GREENSIDE PLACE ASSAULT

Police Scotland issued a press release this afternoon which we reproduce below unedited and in full. ---------- Police in Edinburgh have released…
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NO MORE DIRTY LOOKS FOR JOHN LEWIS

EXCLUSIVE Some readers may have endured this phenomenon at an event of their own. Others may have witnessed it with delicious schadenfreude at the…
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EDINBURGH'S PROBLEM

TRAFFIC DANGERS. _____ THE MAN IN THE STREET    The importance of educating the pedestrian, as well as the drivers of vehicles, was…
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ASSAULT ON LEITH WALK

POLICE SEEK WITNESSES Police in Edinburgh today released a press release. We reproduce it unedited and in full below. ***** Police in Edinburgh…
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ISSUE 299 – OUT TOMORROW!

As you read this, printed copies of the September Spurtle are already returning to Broughton streets like students tiptoeing up common stairs and…
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COOKING WITH GIADA CANDERLE

OUR FAMILY TIRAMISÚ The Italian word tiramisú can be translated as ‘pick-me-up’ – what better name for a dessert which combines coffee, mascarpone…
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THE EVERYDAY BUSINESS OF SOCIABILITY

The columns of 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish newspapers carry items of national and international importance, as you’d expect. But…
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McVEY URGED TO END SALE OF PILRIG GREEN SPACE

WRINGING HANDS IS NOT ENOUGH, SAY LOCALS Feelings are running high over Lothian Buses’ decision to sell off the site of the former Tramways Bowling…
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FOOD FOR THOR ON WAVERLEY MALL

PROPOSALS INCLUDE TEPEES AND GLASSHOUSE Thor’s Bars Ltd of Lancaster seek planning permission for a pop-up event on the roof of the Waverley Mall (…
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NO HOTEL FOR DUNDAS STREET DEVELOPMENT

DEVELOPERS TO LAUNCH NEW CONSULTATION A changed economic climate in the wake of Covid-19 has forced Ediston and Orion Capital Managers to scrap…
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