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A LONELY ENIGMA AT THE HEART OF THE BOTANICS This month sees the welcome return of Reg Butler’s bronze sculpture 'Girl' to the Royal Botanic…
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GETTING TO GRIPS WITH RECYCLING

The large, green, mixed recycling bins arrived on the streets of Bellevue / Claremont in mid-February (Issue 237). City of Edinburgh Council (CEC)…
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ALL CHANGE AT NO. 8

HARD TIMES IN AUSTERITY EDINBURGH G-Star Raw at 8 Multrees Walk is no more.The luxury men’s and women’s denim retail franchise has left,…
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YORK PLACE DELAY INCREASES

New research suggests that waiting times at city-centre pedestrian crossings are not improving, despite efforts to address the problem. On 2…
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HAVE-A-GO HERO TAKES ON GUNMEN

If British legislation restricting the possession and use of firearms is among the strictest of its kind in the world, it is only partly out of a…
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FEARS GROW FOR ALFIE

This little fella is Alfie, and he’s been missing from his home on Bellevue Place since Sunday 6 September. A local resident saw the body of a…
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SNP AND LABOUR WIN WARD 12

The Scottish National Party and Labour won in yesterday’s City of Edinburgh Council Leith Walk (Ward 12) by-election. As expected, it resolved…
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GAP IN THE PORTAL OVER HOLES IN THE WALL

Kingsford Developments Ltd have applied to create two new gates in the existing stone boundary wall and cast-iron railings of the former school at…
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LEITH WALK BY-ELECTION IS TOMORROW

Just in case you’d forgotten, there will be a City of Edinburgh Council by-election tomorrow to elect two councillors for Ward 12 (Leith Walk).Ten…
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FROM THE ARCHIVES

David Sterratt takes an occasional look back at what was rattling Broughton's cages … 5 years ago Spurtle 186 reported  that The Royal…
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