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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.

The discovery last weekend  of used hypodermic needles in a wooded section of Pilrig Park has shocked locals.

In a move which will thrill broad-minded packing crates across the capital, the Class 11 Sauna/Health Club at 4 Broughton Market has applied for a change of use to storage/light industrial/office use with ancillary parking (Class 4). 

Tram testing and driver training during daylight hours in the city centre will increase markedly between now and the service launch date in May.

The Iron Duke, in bronze, by Steell is a familiar sight to most Broughton residents, but what's wrong with it?

It has stood in Waterloo Place since 1852, and almost from the day of its arrival has operated simultaneously as patriotic symbol, familiar meeting place and a focus for political dissent. Partly because it's such a social centre, few people today look up and really study it.

How anyone could forget it's St Valentine's Day is beyond the Spurtle, with references to the year's greatest romantic heffalump-trap displayed in almost every shop window across Broughton. 

The Post Office seeks your views on its plans to move the St James Centre branch to Princes Mall on Waverley Bridge this August.