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THE CHOP OF THE NEW

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I am a creature of habit. 

I don’t like change and I don’t deal with it well. I get my hair cut at Larry’s Barber Shop on Montgomery Street, just off Elm Row, and I’ve been going there for years.

Recently I found myself in a predicament when the only day I could go was a Sunday and that’s the day that he’s closed. As I looked at my schedule I was only free on every Sunday for weeks, and I was long overdue a trim. What was I going to do?

ISSUE 229 – OUT SOON!

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Too hot?

Fear not! Issue 229 has been designed in Italy to fold easily into a convenient and accurately spelt micro-bikini, sun hat or protective solar goggles. Feel cooler, more attractive, and part of the beautiful in-crowd out and about across Broughton from tomorrow.

BYE-BYE, BRUTALISM – WORK ON St JAMES QUARTER TO BEGIN IN 2015

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Building the new St James Quarter seems to have taken a big step closer thanks to 'major' new funding arrangements agreed by City of Edinburgh Council, the Scottish Government and developer TIAA Henderson Real Estate.

Council Leader Cllr Andrew Burns, Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and TIAA Henderson’s Martin Perry announced the ‘unprecedented’ arrangement this morning at offices in Greenside Row overlooking the St James Centre.

LOOK OUT FOR LUNA – MISSING SINCE EASTER

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If there’s one sign more suggestive than any other of spring having sprung, it is surely the number of seasonally bewildered cats wandering the wrong streets and back greens of Broughton.
 
If you have a shed, cludgie or outbuilding which isn’t covered in padlocks, the chances are that there’s a cat in it right now reminiscing about wherever it isn't and blaming all its current misfortunes on the stupid sat nav.