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WHISKY KISS AND THE SHANGHAI FIZZ

Whisky Kiss – the Broughton-based ceilidh band with knobs on – are midway through a relentless, euphoric tour of Shanghai, New York, Kuala Lumpur and…
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WHAT ARE THE BEES TELLING US?

The Natural Beekeeping Trust (NBT) will host the Scottish premiere of Queen of the Sun, a documentary film celebrating bees, their beauty, their role…
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COUNCIL TARGETS DOG OWNERS WITH WIT

Rarely has an exclamation mark been so to the point.'This chalk-stencilled sign appears beside two quasi-dog exercise areas off Arboretum Avenue, and…
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LEITHERS LEAKING WARMTH AND MONEY

Despite a strong presence in Leith of environmentally focused organisations, residents here have been the slowest in Edinburgh to take up home…
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DRUMMOND STUDENTS' DOWNHILL STRUGGLE

Drummond students have just returned from a ski and snowboarding trip to Austria, writes staff member Gillian Hemmings. They rated the holiday above…
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DIRTY NEW TOWN

Whilst all in favour of urban improvement, clean and cheerful living spaces, we nevertheless enjoy many of Edinburgh's obscure and colourfully tatty…
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RRRETURN OF THE WANDERER

Meg – the deaf, local cat with a purr like a motorbike – has been found safe and noisy and is now back in her Brandon Terrace home.It turns out that…
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ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY

Can there be such a thing as too much hospitality?That is the question posed by a Mansfield Place Spurtle reader, who wishes to remain anonymous.…
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MYSTERY MUTT MUST STOP DIGGING

Strange, isn't it, how there is nothing like the mirthless, wasp-chewing tone of Authority for reducing the rest of us to smirks?Take, for example,…
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MISSING MOG HAS PURR LIKE A MOTORBIKE

Have you seen this cat?She's very old, very loving, and has been missing from her home on Brandon Street since 8pm on 2 February.Being more of an…
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