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BIRDING BY NUMBERS

This weekend and on Monday, thousands of people across the country are taking part in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch. The idea is to spend an…
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THROUGH THE KEYHOLE

WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE TO TRANSFORM A LIFE? What’s the best thing you’ve done lately for a complete stranger?Given up a seat on the bus? Helped…
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DRUMMOND PUPILS' DEEDS AND WORDS

Drummond Community High School pupils Michal Wrobel, Alizah Mughal, Dalia Saadi and Haia Jihan will be filmed in and around the school as part of a…
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St ANDREW SQUARE … WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG?

Over the weekend, we posted on Facebook here the photograph you see on the right alongside the question posed in the headline above. We wondered…
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HAIL TO THE CHIEF

EDINBURGH TRIBUTE TO WORLD LEADER Today’s Presidential inauguration will take place amid much pomp and ceremony. Nothing, it seems, could be…
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BROUGHTON … FIRST CONTACT

‘Little Green Men’ have been with us for years. An exclusively bean-eating brother and sister arrived in Woolpit, Suffolk at some point in the…
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HISTORIC PICARDY SEEKS NEW VOICE

Locals will meet on Thursday this week to discuss setting up a new residents association. ‘With city developments encroaching on us in adjacent…
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NEW TWIST ON SIST

CLAIMS ABOUT EXPENSIVE DELAY WITH LITTLE CHANCE OF SUCCESS On 9 September last year we reported how Duddingston House Properties Ltd (DHP)…
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TRICKLE OF HOPE FOR ROSS FOUNTAIN

Moves are afoot to restore the Ross Fountain in West Princes Street Gardens to full working order. In a development which will please all those…
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NEW TOWN MISSING TROUSERS

2017 has not started well for one Fettes Row family. Their beloved cat Trousers – a young-looking 14-year old – has been missing since late on…
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