A GRAFFITI tag that caught the eye of a blogger has been identified more than 500 times on the streets of Edinburgh.
The name of Cigs has been recorded around the city and images posted online by the blogger.
The online chronicler couples daily events with securing another picture of the tag, seen on walls, bins and shops.
The blogger wrote: “I keep travelling around Auld Reekie and seeing graffiti tags for Cigs; figured I would see how far I could get snapping different ones.
“I am not Cigs, just someone with too much time on their hands and slightly obsessive about collecting stuff."
Another entry titled Seaview Terrace adds: “A contender for the most easterly Cigs appeared today ...!”
The Cigs by Cigs blog has received hundreds of views and readers offer tips to Cigs tags not yet pictured.
"And so - how far can you stretch the joke? 500 and rising, it would seem.
"I said at the 365 that it was getting hard to find Cigs stuff, and increasingly as I relentlessly blip them, the new ones appearing are not exactly a flood.
"There's still some at Shrubhill, Easter Road has a few left, there's some random ones at Longstone and Murrayburn to be done, and a scattering across the Southside still to go, but lessening all the time.
"I'm not about to quit the Cigs just yet."
Readers congratulated the blogger when 500 pictures were recorded.
One said: "Really enjoyed your pics.You should have an exhibition of them in Edinburgh."
Another wrote: “Do you think Cigs knows of his fame? There's one in Marionville Road, opposite the back of Meadowbank Stadium. Congrats on 500!”
A spokeswoman for Edinburgh City Council said that it was not officially aware of the vandal.
It has tags listed alongside repeat offenders but Cigs is not identified.
The council said it will remove graffiti on council and public buildings but that shop owners are responsible for clearing up such acts of vandalism if on their property.
Police Scotland said if it received any complaint about the graffiti tags it would investigate.
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