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By Ian McConnell

A plan to create a new boutique hotel and hospitality hub in Edinburgh’s Princes Street has been approved.

Over a year has passed since the world as we knew it changed forever. So used to hopping on a flight to Firenze or a train to Paris, suddenly we were confined to not just our island, but our postcodes, and the concept of a quick, last-minute city break became a distant memory. Summer on a Spanish beach or winter in a Bavarian market were whipped off our collective list of options in a way we could never have imagined. Thankfully, 2021 is finally turning into the year of rebirth we so hoped it would be. Vaccines are being dished out, hugs are once again legal (cautious ones, mind – whatever ...

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– war hero with a colourful heritage and the prospect of a large inheritance to come. She, on the other hand, was the 16-year-old daughter of a modest Edinburgh fishing tackle maker, whose reputation her family were anxious to protect. The questions that swirled around their relationship would be picked over in a court case that could easily have slipped straight from the love-struck world of the Bridgertons. The question of whether Major William Steuart, VC, went down on bended knee one February night in 1866 to take teenage Mary Wilson as his wife led to the highest court in the...