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BROCK STEPS DOWN FROM WARD 12

Deidre Brock is stepping down as councillor for Leith Walk (Ward 12). She will focus instead on her new role as MP for the Westminster parliamentary…
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JOYCE GUNN CAIRNS MBE

With works in the permanent collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the City Art Centre, Scottish artist Joyce Gunn Cairns needs no…
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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES 10

HART STREET AND HART STREET LANE  As I meandered one recent evening, scrutinising the ebb and flow of the Georgian gloaming, it suddenly struck…
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COAST TO COAST

‘It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top…
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MUSIC SCHOOL PLANS GO ON DISPLAY

Plans for St Mary's Music School to move into a restored, refurbished and reconfigured old Royal High School complex went on display on Thursday.The…
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STAG REPORT ON TRAMS TO LEITH WELCOMED BY HINDS

An interim economic appraisal goes before councillors next week.It will conclude – to nobody’s great surprise – that extending the tram route to the…
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ARTWORK OF THE MONTH

BROUGHTON'S FORGOTTEN GIANT Manuscript of Monte Cassino is a remarkable sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi. It sits at the top of Broughton…
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ENTERPRISING DRUMMOND KIDS CROWNED CHAMPIONS

Drummond Community High School Maths teacher Michael Steele writes:We have great pleasure in informing you that Drummond Community High School has…
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SETBACK FOR LOCK-UP WITH ATTITUDE

An application to change the use of a small lock-up in East Scotland Street Lane from domestic garage to studio office has been turned down (Ref. 15/…
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SEVEN OF THE 7th

Seven of the 7th is an exhibition forming part of Gretna 100, which commemorates the Leith soldiers who lost their lives in the Quintinshill rail…
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