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LIKE A ROLLING STONE
Friday 24 February 2012 - 12:15
What is it about the cats of Canonmills? No sooner does one show up (Breaking news, 20.2.12) than another goes missing.The absent friend this time is…
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WHISKY KISS AND THE SHANGHAI FIZZ
Friday 24 February 2012 - 09:27
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?
Thursday 23 February 2012 - 14:17
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
Thursday 23 February 2012 - 09:16
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
Wednesday 22 February 2012 - 12:10
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
Wednesday 22 February 2012 - 10:48
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
Monday 20 February 2012 - 13:51
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
Monday 20 February 2012 - 12:47
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
Sunday 19 February 2012 - 20:11
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
Friday 17 February 2012 - 15:57
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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