As you read this, Spurtle stalwarts are already delivering advance copies of the printed May issue to businesses, street boxes, and subscribers the length and breadth of the barony and beyond.

Readers may soon plunge into Page 1 like young mothers into wallpaper catalogues, finding there rather astounding news on waste and an absence of consultation. They may swoon at news of refurbishment, smile enigmatically at an expected cost, or ponder the mysteries of alleged inappropriate uses in residential areas.

EDINBURGH LICENCE TRANSFER COURT.

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A DIRTY BACK ROOM.

Christina Cameron or M’Callum, executrix of the late Hugh M’Callum, asked for transfer of the public-house certificate at 11 East Register Street, held by her late husband.

Spurtle’s hustings for the Edinburgh Northern & Leith constituency took place last night, with numbers attending the Zoom event never dropping below 72 (including 6 organisers) and probably exceeding that on shared devices.

EDINBURGH TOWN COUNCIL.

The usual meeting of the Town Council was held to-day—Lord Provost Sir James Steel presiding.

THE HOUSING QUESTION IN GREEENSIDE.

A letter was read from the chairman of a public meeting held in Greenside, transmitting a copy of resolutions passed at the meeting on the subject of the housing question in Greenside. The letter contained the resolutions which were passed at that meeting.

7pm, TUESDAY 20 APRIL

Spurtle is holding a hustings for the Edinburgh Northern & Leith constituency in the Scottish Parliament elections.

The event will take place online from 7pm on Tuesday 20 April. We expect it to last about an hour.

You can sign up to attend (for free) here.

The earliest known figurative representation of the human form depicts an exaggeratedly proportioned pregnant woman carved from mammoth tusk.

That Hohle Fels Venus, discovered in 2008 in southern Germany, is at least 35,000 years old. According to its finder, Nicholas Conard, it ‘radically changes our views of the context and meaning of the earliest Palaeolithic art’.