An item of "Breaking News". Will appear on the Breaking News page and the front page.
Work begins bright and early on Monday morning to repair the dangerously torn surface of Powderhall Bridge leading into St Mark's Park (Issue 226, p.2).
Non-slip plywood will be removed, existing deck boards will be prepared, and a new anti-slip surface applied. The whole process will take about three weeks.
An apparently alarming fact was stretched to breaking-point over 13 column inches in the Evening News last week ('Not Top of the Stops', 19 February). It concerned the respective stopping distances of buses and trams in Edinburgh.
They're back.
Like Nazca Lines in the deserts of South Peru, crop circles in Borsetshire, or the embarrassing fungal infection you thought you'd got rid of using a proprietary brand but clearly haven't, pavement mysteries have reappeared outside Artisan Roast on Broughton Street.
Whether they continue as minimalist black and white whorls, or gradually fill with a vaguely Canadian rainbow of colours, remains to be seen. We will observe with interest.
The community bid for St Stephen’s Church has failed ... but perhaps in a good way.
Next month, Fred Berkmiller, chef-patron of L’Escargot Bleu on Broughton Street, will once again be at the heart of the Budding Chefs programme, now in its fourth year.
When an artwork appears in the newspapers, writes Rhys Fullerton, 'it's usually because it's about to sell for a large sum of money or because it's unusual and stands out. Angela Palmer’s Brain of the Artist (2013) falls into the latter catgory.
About a month ago I was in my flat, minding my own business, when suddenly I was distracted by a familiar sound on the street outside.
What do you make of Artisan Roast’s latest A-board on Broughton Street?
Spurtle has been taking soundings, and most of those women we’ve consulted find nothing amiss. They interpret the drawing as either: (a) much love requiring much coffee afterwards; or (b) great coffee coming from lovingly selected and ground beans.
Those behind the proposed community buy-out of St Stephen's Church have taken the first big step.
Twenty years ago this month, Spurtle's first edition hit the streets of Broughton.
We're marking this community's engagement with the news, and its paper's unusual longevity, by steadily publishing more and more back issues online, starting with the earliest.