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VINTAGE FUNDRAISER FOR FORWARD-LOOKING CHARITY

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Canon Street-based charity Hearts & Minds will host a Vintage Fashion Show on 26 March to raise funds and publicise its work across Scotland with people suffering from dementia.

The event – to be held in the café at the Scottish National Gallery on the Mound – will involve fun, fashion, music, cakes, sandwiches, tea, coffee and proseco. 

LIGHT AND SPICY PRAWN CURRY

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It's definitely brighter in the mornings, and there have been entire days of sunshine, so Spring must be around the corner. Which means it’s almost time to pack away the comfort food recipes for another six months and start eating lighter. 
 
Rubbish!
 

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

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I arrived home from work one night in December to find that my blue recycling box, which I’d left on the kerbside earlier that day, had disappeared.

Where had it gone? I suspected that the strong winds were responsible. I looked up and down the street and I even made accusing glances at any boxes lying in neighbours' gardens. Had someone stolen my box? It was nowhere to be seen and the disappearance left me slightly puzzled.
 

IN QUESTIONABLE TASTE

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What do you make of this?

The Other Place on Broughton Road has announced that ‘The Other Challenge’ is now to be a permanent feature of the establishment.

Anyone who manages to eat their triple chilli cheese burger with a side of chilli cheese fries and onion rings within 20 minutes will have the cost of the meal and any drinks consumed during the process ‘wiped from the bill’.

ISSUE 227 – OUT SOON

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Spurning convention and the relentless march of time, Spurtle was not published on the first of the month at the weekend. Instead we propose publishing later today, it being the 3rd, which in trendy circles is the new 1st.

WARNING! GONNAE NO DAE THAT!

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What is it with St Mary’s RC Primary School on East London Street?

The place has a good enough reputation among those locals who attend, but to the casual passer-by its exterior signage has all the welcoming charm once reserved by the Alamo for visiting Mexicans.