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TANAT-JONES COMMENTS ON TESCO OFFSALES LICENCE

Lucy Tanat-Jones, leader of the Broughton Street Traders Association, has now commented officially on the granting of an alcohol offsales licence to…
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PLANNING UPDATE – 21.12.10

The recent spate of conversions on Albany Street continues with Roxburgh Investment Ltd's application for listed building consent to create four…
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PICARDY PLACE TESCO WINS OFFSALE LICENCE

On 20 December, City of Edinburgh Council granted an application by Tesco for an alcohol offsales licence at its soon-to-open Express store on…
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COUNCIL GETS TO GRIP WITH PAVEMENTS

At the end of last week we urged the Council to clear snow and ice from pavements which have no grit-bins (Breaking news, 17.12.10).This now appears…
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SPURTLE AGM RESCHEDULED

The Broughton Spurtle's Annual General Meeting – postponed earlier this month owing to a combination of inclement weather and the wrong sort of…
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CRIMINAL CRIMBO – HATE, RAPE AND THE GRAPE

Campaigns running this Christmas and New Year reflect an Edinburgh reality many of us would prefer not to think about.For the second year running,…
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THE TRUE EXTENT OF BROUGHTON'S GRIT BINS – PATCHY IN THE EXTREME

The Spurtle now has a definitive list of the City of Edinburgh Council's grit-bins. You can download it by clicking on the link at the foot of this…
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HANG 'EM HIGH: A FOOTWEAR PHENOMENON

You may have heard of clootie trees. The practice is an ancient pagan survival found mostly in rural backwaters of Fife, the Black Isle and Ireland,…
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NEW COUNCIL SURVEY ON RUBBISH OPINIONS

City of Edinburgh Council's 'Modernising Waste Team' seek your opinions on how to handle rubbish collection and recycling in the city.Inevitably, at…
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CAPITAL RIOTS: DOUCE EDINA DISORDERED – PART 2

Sanguinary New Year disorder occurred on the night of 31 December 1811 and the early morning of 1 January 1812.According to W.M. Gilbert (1901: 55),…
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