Education convener Marilyne MacLaren has recommended that councillors vote on 27 October for the transfer of classes to the empty school.

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Marilyne MacLaren, Edinburgh City Council education leader, said there had been a fall in demand for meals over the last few years.

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But Dr Robert MacLaren, a specialist at Moorfields Eye Hospital who worked on the research, said they did not want to go down that route.

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On both sides of the Atlantic, Mr MacLaren seems well connected.

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Dr MacLaren stressed it would be some time before patients could benefit from such a treatment, but he said that at least it was now a possibility.

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The real contest thus appears to be between Mr MacLaren and Mr Moore: both would be convincing trade evangelists and effective dealmakers, but each has his backers and his detractors.

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Starting with a blank slate in 1990, VideoLogic founder Anthony Maclaren assigned a team of engineers to find a way to deliver high- quality graphics at prices that would lure mass markets.

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