Spurtle staff are busy dotting the ts and crossing the last of their is as Issue 192 nears completion today.
We expect to print on Monday, ready for distribution on Tuesday throughout Broughton's pubs, clubs, hair salons, barbers and pet parlours, cafés, eateries, tooth extracteries, galleries, fishmongers, green grocers, schools, gift shops, bookshops, library, surgeries, mosque, church vestibules and other good newsagents. And, of course, direct to the doors and inboxes of loyal subscribers.
In the March edition we'll carry news of and reaction to the latest alien invasion of Broughton's shopping space, street and playground art, planning updates on Leith Walk, and a proposed eco garden in Bellevue. We'll cover a bus shelter gone walkabout, a bogus policeman, retold gossip and retail updates and – proving it's never too early to deal with gloomy 19th-century socialist poetry from Shetland – all the latest on socialist poetry of the gloomy, 19th-century, Shetland variety. (There's a Broughton connection, honest, and pictures.)
All this and added online features including more news from Drummond, Ali G's guide to what's on in March, and extra lashings of glum verse from the Ultima Thule.
Plus: A LATE-BREAKING, IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.