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The Get On advice bus will be at Niddrie Mains Road in Craigmillar today from 1pm until 3.30pm.
Edinburgh today: Market Street hotel plans and Music Fae Leith 2011
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Long before daybreak they ended their hasty and perilous journey before the gates of Niddrie, a castle in West Lothian, belonging to Lord Seyton.
The Abbot 2008
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IBA staff representative committee and Niddrie, former SABC satellite project manager nominated himself.
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In fact Niddrie, former SABC satellite project manager, was nominated by the African Telecommunications Forum.
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"The timing of the request is as much of a problem as anything else," said Niddrie.
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Niddrie said these "self-help" stations should then be allowed to expand their services to rural areas.
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The exact date of his birth I have never been able to discover, nor which "laird of Niddrie" he was the son of.
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On Ith June, 1661, as John Stewart, one of a party of stout burghers of Dalkeith appointed to guard an old woman called Christian Wilson from that town to Niddrie, was cleaning his gun, he was slyly questioned by Janet Cocke, another confessing witch, who probably saw his courage was not entirely constant, "What would you think if the devil raise a whirlwind, and take her from you on the road to-morrow?"
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Sure enough, on their journey to Niddrie the party actually were assailed by a sudden gust of wind (not a very uncommon event in that climate), which scarce permitted the valiant guard to keep their feet, while the miserable prisoner was blown into a pool of water, and with difficulty raised again.
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Dalkeith appointed to guard an old woman called Christian Wilson from that town to Niddrie, was cleaning his gun, he was slyly questioned by
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801
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