On Saturday, 26 and Sunday, 27 September, The Cockburn Association will host the Edinburgh and East Lothian Doors Open Days weekend. 

Doors Open Days is a free festival offering access to spaces of historic, cultural, architectural and community interest which are normally ticketed or not accessible to the public. 

As Scotland's oldest conservation charity, The Cockburn feels particularly energised by this year’s theme of ‘Heritage at Risk: Revive, Resist, Reimagine’. 

Lovely to see Robert Pattinson taking a break, this lunchtime, from filming in Glasgow.

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Well, that’s another small tear in the fragile fabric of civilisation, writes David Young. 

In the increasingly garish world of so-called ‘high-street shopping’, one of John Lewis’s last remaining USPs was the provision of an agreeably peaceful retail environment, where customers could browse the quietly tasteful goods in undisturbed tranquility. 

But, as I discovered on a recent visit to the Spurtleshire branch, it seems those days are gone. 

But at Tesco Broughton Road, it's already beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. 

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The Spurtle received a press release from Broughton St Marys Parish Church today. We reproduce it below unedited and in full. This welcome news follows the recent departure of Smart Cookies from the location (Issue 364).

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The redoubtable Victorian brothel-keeper Katherine Johnson featured in Series 6 of the BBC's A History Through Time, which looked at the story of 20–22 Calton Hill.

Johnson enjoyed considerable commercial success and notoriety in her day, working under a variety of names at various addresses.

In the North Briton (Saturday, 24 November 1866), we encounter her as Clara Johnson, working from premises on Clyde Street and involved in a dispute about money with one o

Goodbye to all that. 

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