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BAXTER'S PLACE GOES TO HEARING

This morning, councillors voted unanimously in favour of taking the application for party flats on Baxter’s Place to a hearing. The Development…
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BAD TIMES ON BAXTER’S PLACE

 OFFICIAL BACKING FOR PARTY FLATS Back in 2016 we reported Council consent for conversion to domestic use of the former Edinburgh City…
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HIGH-SPEED HALF-TONNER WAS LOCAL MAN

Spurtle visited Comely Bank Cemetery for the first time this morning. It was opened in 1843, and we had hoped to discover a wealth of funerary…
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SHIFT AND RETURN TO HADDINGTON PLACE

Here, in more detail than we had room to report in Issue 274, is Tom Hodges, whose return to Edinburgh is marked this evening by the launch of…
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ISSUE 274 OUT TOMORROW!

Talk about action-packed! The June Spurtle is out and about from tomorrow, positively bursting at the seams with local news. Page 1 sums up…
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SAD TIMES IN THE CITY

 CANONMILLS CAMPAIGNERS CALL IT A DAY Organisers of the campaign to save 1-6 Canonmills Bridge (the former Earthy shop) issued a statement…
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CENTENARY POPPY LAUNCHED TODAY

A new commemorative poppy was launched this morning at Lady Haig’s Poppy Factory on Warriston Road. The Centenary Poppy is embossed in gold with…
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CUTTING CORNERS AND AN A-LISTED MESS

We’ve become wearily accustomed to to HGVs knocking great lumps off properties around Broughton Street Lane. But a recent low-speed collision on…
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UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE–PLACE EMOTION

 CAN YOU HELP POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH? Yang Wang is a second-year PhD student at Glasgow University. His Urban Studies research aims to…
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FLYSPOTTERS UNITE FOR CLEANER LEITH

Leithers Don’t Litter and Changeworks joined forces this afternoon to launch a new campaign against flytipping as part of Zero Waste Leith.Organisers…
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