Anyone who has experienced the noise, anxiety and expense of fixing a roof will feel a pang of sympathy for the Property Committee at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral.

Police Scotland issued a press release yesterday which we reproduce unedited and in full below.

Detectives are appealing for information following a robbery at an address on Saxe Coburg Street in Edinburgh.

The loneliness of the off-season ice cream seller.

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The final round  

We now enter the last days of the Industrial Hall, Edinburgh’s first purpose-built exhibition space on Annandale Street.  

No amount of roller-skating stunts, Christmas carnivals, circus troupes, galloping Cossacks and smoke-shrouded boxing collisions could disguise the fact that Scotland’s economy in the postwar Depression of the early and mid 1920s could not sustain a commercial venture of this kind.

In wet conditions yesterday, local resident David Harrison led a tour of Rosebank Cemetery to look at some of the graves there erected and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.