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MARGARET 'PEGGY' DESMOND – TELL US MORE Friday, 23 July 2010 Can any readers tell us more about Margaret 'Peggy' Desmond, an actress, local celebrity, and resident of the former Broughton Court on East London Street (adjacent to St Mary's Primary School)?... Read more	MYSTERIES OF THE DEEP IN WATER OF LEITH Thursday, 22 July 2010 When Spurtle reader Ian Mountford passed through St Mark's Park first thing this morning, he soon realised something was wrong. The Antony Gormley sculpture in the Water of Leith which he had... Read more
CRUMBS OF e-HOPE IN BAGUETTE OF MISERY Tuesday, 20 July 2010 We may all be going to economic hell in a financial handcart, but at least hard-pressed Edinburgh City Libraries are continuing to market some excellent services excellently. Their latest... Read more	'EVENING NEWS' AND SECOND-HAND FILTH Friday, 16 July 2010 The woeful state of Edinburgh Evening News journalism was apparent in today's page 8 article 'City wheels out plans for bins across New Town'. By astonishing coincidence, Victoria... Read more
GLENOGLE CAMPAIGN BOWS OUT – LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE Friday, 16 July 2010 The Save Glenogle Baths campaign has delivered its last email update, and is to wind up shortly. It has secured its aims of ensuring that the pool be conserved and maintained, and that the... Read more	BROUGHTON AREA IS TV CENTRAL Monday, 12 July 2010 Blenheim Place was briefly cut off on Friday 9 May, but not as – first thought – by freak weather conditions. The evening disruption was due to filming of the new John Lewis Christmas TV... Read more
LANDLORDS MUST REMEMBER TO RE-REGISTER Friday, 9 July 2010 Edinburgh landlords who first registered themselves as such in 2006 should sign up again in the next few months. Under the Scottish Landlords Registration scheme, private landlords must... Read more	MF DOES NOT SLEEP WITH THE FISHES Wednesday, 7 July 2010 Some readers have expressed concern at the non-appearance of our customary page-4 cartoon in Issue 184. They wonder if the much-feted 'MF' has been moved on or frozen out. They need not make... Read more
YOUNG VISITORS SEEK BROUGHTON SAFE HAVENS Tuesday, 6 July 2010 Three very motivated and high-achieving students from an Italian secondary school will be studying at Drummond CHS next term, and require host families with whom to stay. The girls come from... Read more	END OF THE ROAD FOR HOLE IN THE WALL GANG Monday, 5 July 2010 In Issue 181 we reported the arrest, in March, of two Bonnington Rd men for alleged involvement in a card skimming and cloning scam. On Friday 2 July the pair were found guilty and jailed... Read more