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The discovery last weekend  of used hypodermic needles in a wooded section of Pilrig Park has shocked locals.

In a move which will thrill broad-minded packing crates across the capital, the Class 11 Sauna/Health Club at 4 Broughton Market has applied for a change of use to storage/light industrial/office use with ancillary parking (Class 4). 

Tram testing and driver training during daylight hours in the city centre will increase markedly between now and the service launch date in May.

The Iron Duke, in bronze, by Steell is a familiar sight to most Broughton residents, but what's wrong with it?

It has stood in Waterloo Place since 1852, and almost from the day of its arrival has operated simultaneously as patriotic symbol, familiar meeting place and a focus for political dissent. Partly because it's such a social centre, few people today look up and really study it.

How anyone could forget it's St Valentine's Day is beyond the Spurtle, with references to the year's greatest romantic heffalump-trap displayed in almost every shop window across Broughton. 

The Post Office seeks your views on its plans to move the St James Centre branch to Princes Mall on Waverley Bridge this August.

Imagine my surprise the other day at passing a sign outside a Broughton Street corner shop which read ‘FREE CASH’. 

Free cash? Were my eyes deceiving me? Yes, they were. The sign actually reads:

Revised, longer opening hours are proposed for the new Logie Green Lidl, only days after consent for it was granted. 

News reached us last night of a serious incident at Broughton Primary School yesterday.

During extensive refurbishment of the roof, a chisel was somehow dropped and fell to the ground, only narrowly missing a classroom assistant in the playground.

If you thought you heard woodpeckers by the river in Warriston over the last few days, you were mistaken. That was the grinding of teeth.