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BLUEBERRY AND RASPBERRY ROULADE

I would like to say that I’ve been able to keep my cool and my distance from the Olympic fever that’s invaded the country, but who am I kidding?After…
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IS IT ART? POSSIBLY ...

Villeneuve's manager Carrie Pruitt Bond is disarmingly modest about her design for the wineshop's A-board on Broughton Street.'It was a spur of the…
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'CHALLENGING' HINDS RESPONDS TO DIVERSION CONCERNS

Monday night's emergency session of the New Town and Broughton Community Council to discuss York Place tram works diversions suggests that the tram…
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HOLIDAY FEVER

'Holiday' is a term that exists in every man's mind, writes Felix Kimathi, a former pupil at Drummond CHS's partner Muthambi Boys' School in Kenya.…
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'TARDUS, LONGINQUUS, MACERO' – ISSUE 209 IS ON ITS WAY

If Spurtle's distribution were an Olympic event, it would be the 3,000m steeplechase: frequent, apparently insuperable challenges interspersed by…
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COUNCIL AND RESIDENTS CONSIDER THREE-PIPE PROBLEM

City of Edinburgh Council's Finance and Resources Committee will next week consider approving a £5.5m Leith Improvement Programme (LIP) for north…
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LOCAL SCOUTS JOIN FORCES FOR JAMBORETTE

Local Scouts from Broughton and Greenside recently camped together at the Blair Atholl International Patrol Jamborette – the premier Scottish Scout…
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TRENDY CELT'S DESIGNS ON BAXTER'S PLACE

New plans are in the offing for empty and increasingly derelict-looking properties at 1–5 Baxter's Place (Issue 203).Dublin-based Trendy Celt Limited…
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LOCAL PARKS MAINTAIN STANDARDS

Inverleith Park, Victoria Park, Hopetoun Crescent Gardens and London Road Gardens have retained their coveted Green Flag awards this summer,…
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SHAKEN ALBANY STREET FIGHTS BACK

Albany Street residents and businesspeople have responded angrily to diverted traffic running through the New Town. Several have now begun…
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