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Ani Rinchen Khandro is one of those who have been campaigning with remarkable effectiveness to stop the chop of trees immediately upstream of the bridge at Canonmills. Below she updates Spurtle readers on progress so far.

UNESCO's Edinburgh World Heritage Site recognises this city's unique and fascinating conjunction of the Old and New Towns. The Edinburgh World Heritage Trust seeks to preserve and improve these historic streetscapes as part of a modern and flourishing city.

... THEREFORE also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

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[Beaverhall House, Beaverhall Road]

... AND the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee ...

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[Atsuo Okamoto's 'Faraway Mountain', Gayfield Square, 2009]

... FEAR not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.

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

AND in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God ...

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[Mark Rees's 'Odette', installed in Coffee Angel, Brandon Terrace, August 2011]

P6–P7 pupils from Broughton Primary School have been writing a book with help from local author Mary Turner Thomson, writes our special correspondent (one of the pupils involved).

Each class was split into groups and in various workshops the pupils helped to create the characters and the stories and learned how to edit a book, publish it and publicise it.

The book, named School Daze, is a collection of various different silly stories about the adventures of four schoolchildren.

AND there shall come forth a root out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots ...

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[Drummond Place]

Callooh! Callay! The Christmas season has been ushered in for another year by an X-Factor person crooning about driving in a tenuous bid to make us purchase frozen peas bedecked with tinsel. Naturally, Broughton is all a-quiver with anticipation for the big day, but there are a few things you can do to fill in the time till then. 

Today is World AIDS Day, and Mark Lazarowicz, MP is calling on the UK government to help bridge a shortfall in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

According to experts in the field there is now a real opportunity to finally break the cycle of infection and potentially see the disease wiped out within a generation.