2016 in pictures: October

50th anniversary of Aberfan disaster

GB. WALES. Aberfan Coal Slip Disaster. Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag. Over one hundred children in the apparent safety of their school were buried under the waste of a sliding coal tip. 1966.

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Campaign launched to save Inverleith House art gallery in Botanic Gardens

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French student Antoine Maury goes missing in Edinburgh

Hurricane Matthew devastates Haiti

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Actress Jean Alexander – Coronation Street’s Hilda Ogden – dies

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MPs vote to strip Sir Philip Green of his knighthood

Royston Wardieburn AGM

Batlle to retake Mosul commences

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Charity Chic in Stockbridge

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Boxer Mike Towell dies after fight

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Harvest Banquet in Muirhouse

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Police move in to clear ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais

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Billy Elliot comes to Edinburgh

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Scots win Nobel Prize10-oct-scots-win-nobel-prize… and the Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Bob Dylan

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Carers AGM

And they’re off! PCHP fundraising race night

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Bake Off final

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And the winner is … Candice Brown

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Killer Clowns craze sweeps the nation

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Doing Things Differently: An alternative strategy for the Muirhouse Shopping Centre regenerationppp-flyer-front

UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe floored in Strasburg in mysterious circumstances

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Botanic Nights

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City council consults on Pennywell’s new ‘civic heart’

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Some justice at last for Chhokar family10-oct-chokar

Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre celebrates special birthday

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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 taken off the market after more problems

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In the wake of I, Daniel Blake, a local consultation on our social security systemsocial-security-event-post-oct-2016-page0001Trump in trouble again – this time it’s sexism …

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Looking after the little ones …

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No need for words …

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Food prices rise post-Brexit vote

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Spooky goings on in West Pilton Park

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davepickering

Edinburgh reporter and photographer