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[Atsuo Okamoto's 'Faraway Mountain', Gayfield Square, 2009]
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[Broughton St Mary's Parish Church, Bellevue Crescent]
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[Mark Rees's 'Odette', installed in Coffee Angel, Brandon Terrace, August 2011]
P6–P7 pupils from Broughton Primary School have been writing a book with help from local author Mary Turner Thomson, writes our special correspondent (one of the pupils involved).
Each class was split into groups and in various workshops the pupils helped to create the characters and the stories and learned how to edit a book, publish it and publicise it.
The book, named School Daze, is a collection of various different silly stories about the adventures of four schoolchildren.
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[Drummond Place]
Callooh! Callay! The Christmas season has been ushered in for another year by an X-Factor person crooning about driving in a tenuous bid to make us purchase frozen peas bedecked with tinsel. Naturally, Broughton is all a-quiver with anticipation for the big day, but there are a few things you can do to fill in the time till then.
Today is World AIDS Day, and Mark Lazarowicz, MP is calling on the UK government to help bridge a shortfall in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
According to experts in the field there is now a real opportunity to finally break the cycle of infection and potentially see the disease wiped out within a generation.
Mansfield Place-based Waverley Care is Scotland’s leading charity for people living with HIV and Hepatitis C. This year it's using World AIDS Day (Thursday 1 December) to raise money for its important work, and to raise awareness of the issues behind it.
There are activities planned right across the city, but in Broughton the most obvious eye-catcher will be at St Mary's Parish Church on Bellevue Place.
Are you a Broughton business seeking a fabulous new marketing opportunity? Do you wish to associate your company name, product or service with youthful vigour and the pursuit of excellence?
No? What about the pursuit of balls then?
Drummond Community High School are seeking a commercial sponsor for their football team's kit, and would be delighted to sport a community company's logo on the strip in return.
They're a young, dynamic bunch who enjoy great support locally, so any deal could work to both sides' advantage.
Spurtle Issue 201 will be printed today, ready for distribution through wind, rain and blizzard during the first week of December.