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It looks like the end for these trees beside Canonmills Bridge, photographed this morning as contractors applied the coups de grace.Malcolm Chisholm…
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BETRAYED! TREES CHOPPED AT CANONMILLS AFTER COUNCIL U-TURN

Council contractors began felling trees upstream of Canonmills Bridge on Friday, despite explicit assurances that they would be spared.On 16 December…
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'PUREST HEAPS!!'

Love conquers everything.Even the cracks in the pavement, even the fag ends caught in the cracks, even the gobbets of bubble-gum squashed and…
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GROWING GAIA'S WELCOME RETURN TO BROUGHTON

Readers probably remember the Gaia Group – an ensemble of sustainable development-minded planners, architects and engineers who used to work out of…
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HOT TIP FOR HAT SPOTTERS

In Issue 204 we set the following picture challenge. Name the location of this curious Broughton light-fitting and a £15 retro-style book token could…
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ROCHEID PATH – YOUR VIEWS SOUGHT

Friends of the Rocheid Path have welcomed City of Edinburgh Council's agreement to undertake immediate necessary improvements to the popular cycle…
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5 THINGS JOURNALISTS NEED TO KNOW TODAY

1. Recommending FIVE things readers need to know every morning is REALLY annoying. 2. The number FIVE is NEITHER significant NOR helpful. 3. ONE…
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THE MASTERING OF THE BALLANTRAE – A WINTER'S TALE AND PLANNING UPDATE (12.3.12)

The Ballantrae Hotel has been refused consent for a 3-storey, 14-bedroom extension with external stair and canopy to the rear of its Albany Street…
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HIDDEN BLOOMS

Pictured here is Lynne Harkes's 'A Floral Welcome', part of her exhibition currently showing at Bon Papillon on Howe Street.It almost makes you…
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'EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS' AND SMUT

On Saturday 10 March, the Edinburgh Evening News splashed 'Whipping Up a Storm' across its front page alongside the image of an amply bosomed, corset…
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