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David McLean

The BBC's failed Edinburgh television centre plan that left city with 'hole in the ground'

Back in the 1980s, the BBC was all set to build a state-of-the-art television centre that would have made Edinburgh - and not Glasgow - the centre of its Scottish broadcasting operations.

Unfortunately, the multi-million pound project would never see the light of day and the capital would be left with a huge "hole in the ground" that would take more than a decade to fill.

The plans were first announced ahead of the 1979 Scottish devolution referendum, which would decide if a Scottish Assembly would be created within Edinburgh's Old Royal High School at Regent Road.

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