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On a brief walk earlier today we encountered this suprising geographical cluster of delinquent youths. Do you recognise their location?
The first young person (right) is not too bad at first glance. But look again, and there is something disturbingly adult about his expression. He looks like the kind of child who will, after mature consideration, ‘accidentally’ push the electric fire into Daddy’s bathwater.
Finding a parking space in Broughton these days is like finding a parking space in Broughton. It's near-on impossible and you end up repeating yourself continuously as you go round the bend.
Over 200 people packed into Edinburgh Academy last night for a Scottish Independence debate organised by Stockbridge and Inverleith Community Council.
What follows is an impressionistic summary, not a complete transcript. Spurtle has no settled position on the Independence question, and has been at pains not to favour one side or party over any other in this account.
A Google-mobile has been spotted in Broughton.
Last Friday’s ShipShape Elm project, which saw 75 volunteers blitz graffiti, stickers and fly-posting in and around Elm Row, has been hailed as a great success (Breaking news, 5.5.14).
An application has been submitted for planning permission to make internal alterations at 7–11 East London Street (site of the former Locanda da Gusti).
Some gentle wanders about Broughton today revealed one local warming up on the steps of St Mary’s Cathedral with a glass of milk and a good read.
The weather forecast predicts another day of sunshine and showers in Edinburgh, meaning another day of sudden brilliance and shadow on Howe Street where Hatti Pattisson is exhibiting work at No. 25.
Individual works by Susan Smith and Leo du Feu have often caught the eye at Bon Papillon in the past.
This month, however, mother and son exhibit together for the first time in a happy combination of similar interests and differing styles. Both are fascinated by nature in general and birds in particular.
It is now nearly 65 years since Big Brother first made an appearance in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The kindly or threatening embodiment of totalitarianism has since become synonymous with mass surveillance, or the intrusive abuse of such surveillance technology by the state.