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SEASONAL APPEAL TO HEARTS AND MINDS

Today is Giving Tuesday, ‘a day set aside for people to shun commercialism and support good causes’. By no coincidence, it is also the day on…
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UPDATE ON BROUGHTON ROAD GIANT

 OFFICIALS AND COUNCILLORS DID NOT SPOT PROBLEM Reader Ash Hughes has identified a different prior-notification sequence to that examined…
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TELECOM GIANT DWARFS GRETNA MEMORIAL

 BEFORE YOU READ THIS, READ THIS WAS PHONE MAST BUILT IN THE WRONG PLACE? Redbraes residents are up in arms about a new…
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BUILDING UPGRADE FOR BOTANICS

The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh will hold a second public consultation at 20A Inverleith Row on 10 January to seek views about a major programme…
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WAVERLEY CARE LAUNCHES CHARITY AUCTION

In the run-up to World AIDS Day, Broughton-based charity Waverley Care has launched its Tartan Ribbon Online Auction. It now seeks…
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COLLECTIVE SIGH OF RELIEF

 FIRST LOOK INSIDE EDINBURGH’S INSPIRING NEW GALLERY COMPLEX On a morning of scudding sunshine and showers, Collective Gallery today…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR QUIRKY QWERTY LOCAL BUSINESS

Typewronger Books – the typewriter repair service, micro-bookshop, events space, and now independent publisher – is one year old today. Spurtle…
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BROUGHTON HERO REMEMBERED WITH HONOUR

The Lord Provost, Frank Ross, unveiled a commemorative flagstone this morning to honour the bravery of a First World hero. Sapper Adam Archibald…
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ISSUE 279 – OUT TOMORROW!

As you read this, the latest Spurtle has been written, printed, folded, and carefully counted into piles ready for wind-powered distribution across…
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EAST PRINCES STREET GARDENS

Removal of 52 trees from East Princes Street Gardens has prompted outrage on social media. The ensuing argument centres around the National…
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