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Luxury retail chain Tommy Hilfiger will come soon to Edinburgh.

Alcathoe, Barbastelle, Bechstein's, Brandt's, Brown, Daubenton's, Grey, Horseshoe, Leisler's, Natterer's, Noctule, Pipistrelle, Serotine and Whiskered?

Or Astaroth, Baphomet, Cimeries, Damballa, Emma-O, Fenriz, Gorgo, Haborym, Ishtar, Marduk, Nergal, Pwcca, Rimmon and Sabazios?

From 1 November 2012 to 31 October 2013, the Japanese artist Tomoko Tabuchi chose 12 photographs a day to represent her life.

In Scotland, we are well-used to blending pleasure and pain, hope and despair. It is a national characteristic rooted in climate, religion, football and homemade tattoos. It’s what allows us to derive foreboding from the smile of a child and enjoyment from the teeth of a gale. Somehow, here, it’s always ‘hard tae tell the difference atween laughin an greetin’.

Leith Central Community Council has sought to calm the storm over Leith Walk renovations which blew up before Christmas.

How is your head?

If the combination of recent meeting and greeting, central heating and over-eating has once again reduced it to the size of a pickled walnut, now is the time to give it an improving work-out.
 

Spurtle rose bright and early today, and embarked upon 2014 with the customary clear head and clean conscience.

We recorded our brisk constitutional using a camera, and now present some of the more focused, random impressions of Broughton the morning after the night before.

Tim Smith – Spurtle's chief cycling correspondent and grammarian – has a dark secret.

He devises puzzles.

The Broughton Spurtle is now officially Christmased-out.

We shall be taking a festive rest for the next few days before returning with online news updates at some as-yet-to-be-resolved non-festive point after 26 December.

Staff at Ampersand Interiors on Dublin Street have been looking forward to Christmas for weeks.

Their window shows a period fireplace, stockings prepped and ready, and a little something for Father Christmas and his reindeer to keep them going on the big night.