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STEEDS, SPEED AND MISADVENTURES

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OUT OF CONTROL 

From the Caledonian Mercury, 16 May 1785: 

Wednesday afternoon, one of the flour carts belonging to the Mills at Canonmills, in passing through a toll-bar in the neighbourhood of that village, which made a noise in opening, the horses took fright, and ran most furiously till at Beaverhall. 

A young woman, sitting on the front of the cart, was thrown down between it and the horses, where her cloaths had been entangled, and bruised in such a manner, that her life is despaired of.

BROUGHTON STREET BUNNY PECULIAR

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Rabbits have thrived in Scotland ever since their introduction here by the Romans.

Likewise bawties, mappies, moups, moppies and dear little leprones.

In part this has been due to their intense joie de vivre; in part to their encouragement by the Normans, who began husbanding them in underground Hefner Mansions known in Scots as conyngares from at least the 1400s.

EYE WIDE OPEN

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RHYS FULLERTON TAKES A LOOK 

The Open Eye Gallery starts 2016 with its 35th birthday, and 50 artists – both emerging and more established, but all represented by the gallery – are on hand to help celebrate it. 

Established in 1982, Open Eye was originally located on Cumberland Street before relocating to Abercromby Place just over a decade ago. 

I’ve picked four of my favourite works, which I feel sum up this exhibition and the gallery as a whole.

Alberto Morrocco – ‘Life Class’

COMMUNITY COUNCIL SEEKS FRESH FACES

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Leith Central Community Council has spaces for up to nine new members, and seeks nominations by 1 February. 

Community Councils typically get involved with things like Planning, Licensing, Transport and the Environment. They often liaise with the police, health and community representatives, and get residents to use their neighbourhood knowledge to represent their own and other locals’ views to the Council. 

COMMUNITY CINEMA LAUNCHES 2016 PROGRAMME AND DISCUSSION

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Make a note in your diary! 

The New Town Community Cinema will launch its 2016 programme at an event on Friday evening, and you're invited. 

Doors open at the Glasite Meeting House (33 Barony Street) at 5.00pm – just so that interested bodies can wander in out of the cold, mill about, blether, and admire one of this area's most interesting and historic buildings.

SUPER-DELI STILL ON TRACK

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There are new signs that life may at last be breathed into Units 1 and 2 at 120 Dundas Street

KLR and RCR International Ltd gained consent  to combine the properties into a ‘continental-themed café and retail’ super-deli in May last year (Ref. 14/02839/FUL). 

SPOT THE SPOT COMPETITION SOLUTIONS AND WINNERS

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Congratulations to all who took part in our 12 day, 24-clue photo competition which closed yesterday. 

Thanks also to all those who griped supportively from the sidelines. 'Fiendishly difficult' was the politest thing anybody found to say about the quiz. 

In the end there were three entrants. The winner – a magnificent joint effort by the New Town Clean Streets Campaign and David Hill – achieved 15 correct answers. Second was Rhys Fullerton with 8. Third was Lizzie Rynne with 6. 

BROUGHTON FEEDS BACK

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Work continues apace on fitting out the new Tesco branch at 30–30a Dundas Street (see Breaking news, 29.9.15). 

A migraine of busy health-and-safety notices adorns the fencing.

It fusses about everything.

What to ingest, listen to, wear and accept. What to know before you go in, whom to be with when you’re there, and how to get out in a hurry. It even instructs local parents on what they should tell their children about the site.