Welcome to Leith Walks, home of the original Trainspotting Tours and the book Choose Life. Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location by Tim Bell, published by Luath Press.
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From the Blog
Hallowe’en – and it’s getting really scary!
It has become explicit in the last few days - after having been obvious for some time - that we are heading for another indyref, when those who want to break from the union we are in have not the first idea of what life outside the union would be like. This time it's...
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At last, a good news story. Labour gained - that is, won from another party - a seat in the Edinburgh Council bye-election yesterday. We had an excellent candidate, and we did a lot of hard work on the streets and on the doors and on the phones, for a good few weeks;...
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As promised, here's a wee programme of tours to coincide with all those other fun things you can do in Leith/Edinburgh in August. It's not part of any Festival. Click on The Walks link above, and you'll see there's a tour going every Friday afternoon at 2.00pm. It...
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