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ASSAULT ON BROUGHTON ROAD – POLICE APPEAL FOR INFORMATION

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Police Scotland issued a press release this evening which we publish below unedited and in full.

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Around 1.20pm on Tuesday, 20 May, 2025, a 76-year-old man was walking on Broughton Road near to Tesco when he was approached by a man and assaulted.

The man did not require hospital treatment.

The suspect is described as being between 60 and 75 years of age, around 5ft 10in in height, of slim build and bald. He was wearing light coloured clothing and has a distinctive crouched walk.

SCRATCHED GRAFFITI ONLY SUPERFICIAL

Dear Spurtle

 

I forwarded your report on a Bellevue bench's Italian connection (NEW IN BELLEVUE – AN ITALIAN HERO, 2 April 2025) to my contacts south of the Alps and they found the inscribed text "rather shallow" and unlikely to add to Edinburgh's eleganza. 

 

However, referencing the great Immanuel Kant, they described the Council's thoughts behind their intervention as at least  'comforting.

 

Harald Tobermann

(Pilrig)

QUINTINSHILL REMEMBERED

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The Royal Scots Regimental Museum’s annual outreach exhibition opened at Out of the Blue this morning. Depute Lord Provost Cllr Lezley Cameron (right) helped launch the event.

 

This year’s exhibition focuses on the Quintinshill rail disaster of 22 May 1915, in which 227 people died including 216 officers and soldiers of the 1st/7th (Leith Battalion) on their way to the Gallipoli campaign.

 

ISSUE 350 – OUT TOMORROW!

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As you read this, advance copies of the May Spurtle are already spreading across the barony like tree pollen chasing atopics out in the fresh air for the first time since February.

 

Issue 350 begins with transport and environment and Copenhagen and climate change and the most enormous bed-bug you have ever had the misfortune to meet.

 

Relax on Page 2 to the furtive rustle of bin-tourists, the tinkle of trams and sunken manhole covers, splutters of bunker rage, and gasps at the lack of space in 3 local pubs.

 

SURPRISING!

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There are places in Broughton which some people still struggle to find.

#Edinburgh

#hyperlocal

#news

#graffktk

#bad spelling

NEW TOWN QUARTER INCHES FORWARD

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Broughton's beloved Loch Eyre could soon be consigned to memory as work on the New Town Quarter inches closer to starting.

 

Developer Ediston's Ross McNulty tells us: ''We are in advanced negotiations with contractors to build the private for sale residential blocks opposite Royal Crescent and Fettes Row.

 

'It is anticipated we will be in a position to confirm the contractor in May this year with a view to starting on site in the summer. We recognise it has been a long wait, and look forward to seeing real site activity taking place soon.

 

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