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No sooner has listed building consent been granted for a restaurant at 1 Royal Terrace Gardens (Breaking news, 12.12.11) than those behind the scheme are seeking to extend its hours of business. When permission was orginally granted two years ago, the agreed opening hours were 9.00am–10.00pm. Now an application has been submitted for hours starting at 8.00am and ending at 12 midnight.

Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.

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Local campaigners have secured key concessions from City of Edinburgh Council's Director of Planning in the battle to stop the chop at Canonmills.

Following a meeting with Dave Anderson on Friday, a new arrangement was agreed which will save the main stand of willow trees upstream of the bridge. That agreement, put in writing the same day, is reproduced below in full and unedited.

WHERE is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.

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[Council Chamber, City Chambers]

It came, a flower bright, amid the cold of winter ...

[Drummond Place backgreen]

AND the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehendeth it not.

[German Market, The Mound]

Readers of genre fiction often grow tired of justifying their particular taste against charges of literary inferiority. Not so Broughton resident Laura Vivanco, whose closely reasoned and wide-ranging academic defence of Harlequin Mills & Boon novels – For Love and Money – was published this week.

‘Having spent a great deal of time reading HM&B romances, I would argue that many are well-written, skilfully crafted works which can and do engage the minds as well as the emotions of their readers, and a few are small masterpieces,’ she writes.

AND they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

[Broughton St Mary's Parish Church, Bellevue Crescent]

AND suddenly there was with the angel a heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men ...

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[Mansfield-Traquair Centre, Mansfield Place]

City of Edinburgh Council Planning officials do not have a problem with the colour of signage used at the new Coop on McDonald Road, which opened this morning.

How wise. Jolly clear and cheerful it is too.

How very unlike the nasty 'bright green' signage of Real Foods on Broughton Street, which is an obvious affront to Civilisation and must be stopped.

[NB: Colours have not been manipulated, boosted or otherwise artificially tweaked in either picture.]