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As a personal statement of obsessive business drive, it is unlikely to appeal to Lord Sugar.

Somehow, we doubt Donald Trump will affect its easy-going tone any time soon, even on the golf course.

Spurtle's been out and about in the neighbourhood this weekend, looking for unusual angles as usual.

Red and blue recycling buckets may be binned if councillors sign-off the business case for new kerbside arrangements (see foot of page).

The Transport and Environment Committee meets on Tuesday next week, and on the agenda is a move from two receptacles to, um, two containers.

Working Lines – an exhibition of prints and drawings – previews on Howe Street this evening.

It features the work of four artists, one of whom is well known to many in Broughton and further afield in a different guise.

The Water of Leith Conservation Trust (WLCT) has won £10,000 as part of Clydesdale Bank's Spirit of the Community Awards.

The awards recognise charities and not-for-profit organisations 'which are going the extra mile'. Or in this case, the extra 22 miles.

Broughton flats are providing important energy information for researchers at Edinburgh Napier University’s Scottish Energy Centre, writes Jon Stinson.

Comedian and political activist Mark Thomas fronted the launch of a 6-month Assessing the Assessors campaign this afternoon on York Place.

A retrospective application for change of use to turn a consented garage into a studio dwelling on Scotland Street Lane East (behind 8 Bellevue Crescent) attracted a staggering 47 objections from disgruntled neighbours, the New Town & Broughton Community Council and Drummond Civic Association (Ref.

'Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.' But not, it seems, in the hands of Austentatious.

Twenty-one members of the public turned out yesterday evening for a stroll from Picardy Place to just north of Pilrig Street.