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PROBLEMS STILL LOOM LARGE OUTSIDE BATLEYS

The problem with HGVs parking on McDonald Place appears to be no better in 2017 than it was in 2016. Despite repeated appeals to Council…
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REFLECTIONS ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY

David Sterratt writes: In partnership with Edinburgh Interfaith Association, Drummond Community High School hosted Holocaust Memorial Day: an Evening…
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LEITH ST STRAMASH COMING SOON

44 WEEKS FOR ‘ESSENTIAL UTILITY WORKS’ TH Real Estate – developer of the new St James Quarter – aims to partially shut Leith Street to most…
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ISSUE 260 OUT TOMORROW!

As March sidles over the horizon with snowdrops in one hand and a bucket of sleet in the other, Spurtle’s Issue 260 brings news of all the latest…
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BOTANICS TO HOST FREE EVENT

An evening  of talks at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RGBE) next month will cover everything from ‘adhesive for sticking lichens on trees…
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CHANSONS D'AMOUR

Was it an army or was it knot? Possibly, more of an orgy. Spurtle can't tell the difference between multiple frogs and multiple toads…
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DON’T BOTHER TIDYING, THIS WEEKEND

Is your life encumbered by clutter? Do you yearn for the wide open spaces of an IKEA showroom? A world free of unread novels and knick-knacks…
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'COMPLEMENTARY BUT MODERN'

OLD ROYAL HIGH DEVELOPERS MAKE CASE The wait is over. Duddingston House Properties and Urbanist Hotels’ revised plans for a scaled-down…
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HOPES DASHED OVER CANONMILLS

Locals campaigning to stop development of Canonmills Bridge have been hoping that planning permission for the site has lapsed.Their optimism rested…
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PROTESTORS STILL BELIEVE

Around 90 people gathered in the Royal Botanic Gardens (RGBE) this afternoon to demand that Inverleith House be reopened as an art gallery. …
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