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What's in, what's oot, what's shaking it all aboot this month in Broughton and beyond ...

Edinburgh Bands Together on Sunday 6 March at The Jam House (5 Queen Street) to raise money for St Columba’s Hospice. Standing tickets are £10,…
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PROFILE: LAURENCE JAMES NICOLSON, THE 'BARD OF THULE' (1844–1901)

In Rosebank Cemetery, an inscription ends:SERENE HE SLEEPS WHOSE SONGS OF LOVE AND HOME HAVE OFTEN CHEERED US ON THE WORLD’S HIGHWAY; AND HERE WE…
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FINE FOODIES FAVOUR BROUGHTON, DAMN IT!

Surely, nothing is more irritating than metropolitan lifestyle journalists dipping their oh-so-delicate toes into the too-hot-too-cold-too-tepid…
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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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