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CAMPAIGNERS in Edinburgh are celebrating after the city council announced the People’s Story museum will reopen next month.

The institution, which celebrates and remembers the struggles of working people through the centuries in Edinburgh and beyond, closed earlier this year as the Labour council grappled with a £26.7 million overspend after years of cuts to local authority budgets.

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