An item of "Breaking News". Will appear on the Breaking News page and the front page.
Results for Broughton constituencies have been declared:
Edinburgh Central
Marco Biagi, Scottish National: 9,480
Sarah Boyack, Scottish Labour: 9,243
Alex Cole-Hamilton, Scottish Liberal-Democrat: 5,937
Ian McGill, Scottish Conservative: 4,354
Edinburgh Northern and Leith
Malcolm Chisholm, Scottish Labour: 12,858
Shirley-Anne Somerville, Scottish National: 12,263
Sheila Low: 2,928
Dan Farthing: 2,836
Axolotl Gallery on Dundas Street have been successfully drumming up interest in their opening-night exhibition of work by Kam Chan, Christine Clark, Paul Mowat, Sofie Fischer Rasmussen and Sarah Wilson (Issue 194).
However, the initial invitation omitted to mention a time. Spurtle has no problem with that. It's an age-old ploy we regularly use ourselves – along with omitting to mention a venue or indeed omitting to send out invitations at all – when organising potentially expensive parties for readers, offspring, or loved-ones.
Broughton Street is arguably the hippest in Edinburgh, and rumours have been circulating locally that it has been nominated as such in a competition.
Broughton-based charity Waverley Care are raising funds by selling chances to perform in a 400-strong choir.
Acclaimed Clasical composer John Rutter will conduct his own composition – Requiem – at St Cuthbert's Church in August. Singers will be accompanied by a small orchestra, organ, and professional soprano Susan Hamilton.
Born in 1945, Rutter is a popular composer whose musical education began in London and Cambridge before he went on to achieve international success.
Scotland on Sunday (1 May) carried a fascinating article about the recent discovery in Oxford of James Boswell's lost work-in-progress: a dictionary of Scottish words.
Boswell (1740–95) – a charming blend of character flaws: Edinburgh resident, lawyer, neurotic, sexual desperado and wordsmith – commenced the work in the 1760s and gained encouragement for it from the lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson.
The Co-operative Group have been granted permission for a change of use at 8 McDonald Rd from public house to convenience store (Ref. 11/00435/FUL).
Despite 20 letters of objection, a local petition, and representations from local politicians, the go-ahead was given for operating hours from 7am to 11pm Monday to Saturday and 9am–9pm hours on a Sunday.
A quite astonishing image of the St Mark's Park Gormley by Spurtle Twitter correspondent @dOSsDaz appears today in Issue 194, very small and black-and-white.
We thought you'd appreciate it larger and in colour.
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The more astute of you may have noticed that it is May already. We’re not sure how it happened either. Still, let us make the best of things by noting in our diaries the more salient social engagements going on in and around Spurtleshire over the next month.
First off, art. A new exhibition by Perthshire-based artist Jane Melrose opens at the Union Gallery (45 Broughton Street) on 5 May. Her paintings and drawings explore themes surrounding the natural environment and childhood memories, which seems ideal spring viewing.
An obscure Broughton byway has entered the limelight.
Scotland Street Lane (East), connecting Bellevue Crescent and Scotland Street, has featured locally for:
The latter incident resulted in a broken window, and dislodgement of a coping stone (see photo).
Spurtle's printed May edition will hit the sun-drenched streets and sundry shady interiors of Broughton tomorrow.
We have gulls, puffins, pelicans and a displaced pigeon, lollies, funfairs, hammer-throwing records and a wandering dead president (no connection), lively ivy, heavy drenchings, upmarket downpipes, trout, two items of lamp-post news, fund raising, gallery previews, drunken youth, bongo drums and inebritated mice.
And other stuff, some less serious, some more.