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Artists refused six months grace as developers move in (opens the original)
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Welcome to your midweek edition of The Inquirer.For today’s long read we report on the abrupt closure of St Margaret’s House at Meadowbank as the home of 200 of the city’s artists and artisans. If you don’t rcognise the name, you’ll know the building by the huge white sign on its wall declaring ART.The building has long been earmarked for development as part of the transformation of that part of the city. Housing and more student accommodation is in the pipeline.However, with negotiations for th
Ten years on: Not a single brick has been laid on the city’s Garden District (opens the original)
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MP ‘being forced out by internal war in city Lib Dems’ (opens the original)
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The forgotten Edinburgh explorer murdered after his greatest triumph (opens the original)
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Inside the home of one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers (opens the original)
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Welcome to your midweek edition of The Inquirer.You might remember the UK Government announcing plans to build the next UK supercomputer in Edinburgh at a cost of £750 million. The investment was confirmed last summer, after the incoming Labour government initially dropped the plan saying it had been left unfunded by their Conservative predecessors. Well, work is now underway in Midlothian to build what will be the most powerful supercomputer in the world when it is switched on in 2028. Where do
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