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Nadine Lee
Edinburgh Named Redheaded Capital of the UK
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Researchers from Britain's DNA have produced the first ever map of redheaded nations and cities, with Edinburgh coming out on top in full ginger bloom. The study found that 40% of the Scottish capita...
Topics: Red Hair, Edinburgh
Nadine Lee
Council Weighs In On Bobby Rubbing
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Greyfriar's Bobby, Pre-op Edinburgh's world famous pup Greyfriar's Bobby got a facelift earlier this week, following a successful Facebook campaign by Bobby enthusiasts. On Tuesday sculpture conser...
Topics: edinburgh, Edinburgh Council, FaceBook, Greyfriar's Bobby, Greyfriars Kirkyard
Nadine Lee
Hundreds of Piping Santas Advance on Edinburgh
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Bagpipe playing Santa Clauses descended on Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens over the weekend, to help warm up runners at the city's annual Santa Run. Hundreds of runners and walkers dressed as Santa...
Topics: bagpipes, Christmas, edinburgh, Santa Claus, Stockbridge Pipe Band, Unicycle
Nadine Lee
An Ode to Scotland - Meeting a Modern-Day Scots Poet
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Intertwined and impenetrably linked to Scottish culture, poetry has a long and distinguished history in Scotland. And it's a history that's continuing to this day – Edinburgh was recently named the wo...
Topics: edinburgh, Harry Giles, Hugh MacDiarmid, Norse, Orkney, Poetry, Scots, Scots Renaissance, Scottish identity, Vikings
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