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JOHN LEWIS PLANS HOMES

 MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN LINE FOR BONNINGTON Staff from Montagu Evans LLP met Leith Central Community Council on Monday to discuss a pre…
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COUNCIL APPROVES FACT FINDING

Councillors today approved the Outline Business Case for extending the trams. In doing so, they triggered a year-long ‘fact-finding’ Stage 2,…
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WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE SHOW SO FAR?

Changeworks are asking Edinburgh flat and tenement dwellers for their opinions about shared on-street bins used for rubbish and recycling. ‘It…
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DON’T BE RASH WITH THE ASH

Remember HAL in Arthur C. Clark’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? The sentient Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer began to malfunction in mid-…
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LEITH STREET CHOP

The Greenside Link is no more. In still conditions during the small hours of this morning, contractors succeeded in cutting it at either end and…
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NOT GONE YET

The Leith Street pedestrian bridge between the former St James Centre and the Q-Park over the road was still in place this morning. It had been…
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TIME FOR A CHANGE

When does autumn begin and end? The answer depends on whether you’re a meteorologist or an astronomer. Weather buffs divide up the year…
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PICARDY PLACE IS CHANGING

 WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT  Together for Edinburgh is the team behind the ‘regeneration’ of Edinburgh’s East End.*  In a recent…
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BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE

 MISTAKEN IDENTITY AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES? Essential Edinburgh have been granted permission to remove a Japanese cherry from St Andrew…
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CYCLISTS PUSH BACK AT LEITH STREET TIGHT SQUEEZE

Measures for the temporary (44-week) closure of Leith Street are now in place, but the promised access for cyclists between Calton Road and Waterloo…
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