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ISSUE 334 – PUBLISHED TOMORROW!

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As you read this, advanced copies of the November Spurtle are already spreading across Broughton and beyond like bats flitting before a storm.

Issue 334 leaps into action with news of progress, variously slow, encouraging and decisive. We also feature a new face behind the foliage and a call for your jinglies as Christmas approaches.

Storm Babet busts new bins

Dear Spurtle,

We had two new land-fill bins installed in our street on Wednesday. When I came out the flat this morning, both lids had been blown open overnight and one of the inset lids had been blown completely off its hinges. I have reported this to the Council.

I rescued the lid and some of the components – it is a very flimsy arrangement with a recycled plastic hinge rod in two sections and a poorly detailed metal plate fixing. This is what has come to bits and has also ripped through the plastic of the main lid.

Basically, it's a poor design which has failed at the first test – plenty room now for seagulls and rats etc. to get access …any sign of this occurring elsewhere?

Jerry Forde
East Claremont Street

Broken bins

BARONY PLACE

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One of Broughton's more colourful corners.

No. 27 in an occasional photo series celebrating Spurtleshire's street-name signs.

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ISSUE 333 – COMING SOON!

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As you read this, advance copies of the October Spurtle are already appearing across the barony.

Issue 333 begins with latest developments in 2 local planning sagas, one artfully tweaked, the other as flat-footed as before. We shed light. We also include news of rumbling giants in the New Town, which some locals love and others hate. Pillars of the community with local connections and an outing in Leith occupy the architectural/artistic slot on Page 1’s coveted top-right.