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This is the twelfth and final brace of spot-the-location puzzles. There will be a cash prize at the end for the person with the greatest number of correct answers. 

All the places are in or adjacent to Broughton. 

Participants now have until noon on Sunday 10 January to e-mail solutions to us at: spurtle@hotmail.co.uk. Please use 'Competition' in the subject heading. 

A spike in the number of Edinburgh burglaries made headlines last summer. 

Police Scotland's Sir Stephen House pinned much of the blame on unsporting East Europeans who leave the country before they can be arrested, and on young people going on crime sprees whilst awaiting punishment for other misdemeanours. 

'It's not that we are not making the arrests,' said the Chief Constable. 'Often we know who is doing it, and they will continue to do it if they are still out on the streets.'

This is the penultimate, daily, spot-the-location puzzle. There will be a cash prize at the end for the person with the greatest number of correct answers. 

All the places are in or adjacent to Broughton.

Keep your solutions quiet for now. You may wish to trade them later, depending on how everyone else is doing.

All will become clear in due course.

PHOTO 21: HIDDEN STACHE

ARTHUR MELVILLE: ADVENTURES IN COLOUR 

—REVIEWED BY RHYS FULLERTON 

Arthur Melville lived an adventurous life. Not many artists could claim to have been twice attacked by bandits, robbed and left for dead or arrested on suspicion of espionage. It sounds more like the synopsis of an Indiana Jones film. 

This is the tenth of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles. There will be a cash prize at the end for the person with the greatest number of correct answers. 

All the places are in or adjacent to Broughton.

Keep your solutions quiet for now. You may wish to trade them later, depending on how everyone else is doing.

All will become clear in due course.

PHOTO 19: SOTTO VOCE

This is the ninth of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles. There will be a cash prize at the end for the person with the greatest number of correct answers. 

All the places are in or adjacent to Broughton.

Keep your solutions quiet for now. You may wish to trade them later, depending on how everyone else is doing.

All will become clear in due course.

PHOTO 17: SKY WHISKER

Perhaps you'll wonder whether I’ve over-imbibed during the festive season when I suggest you look out for a bird this month that may not even be here. 

You may feel even more suspicious when I describe it … pinky/orange plumage, a striking plume, zorro style black mask and yellow flashes on its wings and tail that would not be out of place on a traffic policeman’s BMW. 

Strangely, despite all these stunning plumage features, the Waxwing is named after the tiny scarlet wing feather extensions that are said to resemble sealing wax from bygone times.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

We start 2016 with this, the eighth of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles. There will be a cash prize at the end for the person with the greatest number of correct answers. 

All the places are in or adjacent to Broughton.

Keep your solutions quiet for now. You may wish to trade them later, depending on how everyone else is doing.

All will become clear in due course.

PHOTO 15: DORMANT

Sometimes, when we or our readers get up a head of steam and complain about something, nothing gets done. 

Other times, something gets done but only very very slowly. 

And then, once in a blue moon, something gets sorted almost before the telephone has cooled down. 

That’s what’s happened this time, following Spurtle team member Tim Smith’s report to the Council about  a kerbside multiple trip-hazard on Hopetoun Street (see below).

This is the seventh of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles, with a cash prize at the end for the person with the greatest number of correct answers. 

All the places are in or adjacent to Broughton.

Keep your solutions quiet for now. You may wish to trade them later, depending on how everyone else is doing.

All will become clear in due course.

PHOTO 13: BUBBLE AND SQUAWK