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SPOT THE SPOT DAY 5

This is the fifth of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles, with a cash prize at the end for the person with the greatest number of correct answers.…
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TIME TO RECLAIM OUR PUBLIC SPACES

'MAGNUS MacNEMESIS' HAS HAD ENOUGH For the second year running, Edinburgh citizens find themselves disgusted. As in 2014/15, we are…
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SPOT THE SPOT DAY 4

This is the fourth of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles, with a cash prize at the end for the person with the most correct answers. Keep your…
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CEC RESPONSE ON CALTON HILL BEGS MORE QUESTIONS

Yesterday, we printed reader Keith Cowan’s letter in which he asked who in the Council had made the decision to close Calton Hill on Hogmanay (…
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SPOT THE SPOT DAY 3

This is the third of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles, with a cash prize at the end for the person with the most correct answers. Keep your…
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SPOT THE SPOT DAY 2

This is the second of 12 daily spot-the-location puzzles, with a cash prize at the end for the person with the most correct answers. Keep your…
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SPOT THE SPOT DAY 1

Here are the first two location-puzzles in our 12 Days of Christmas quiz. (See yesterday's post for the general idea.)Keep the answer to…
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FESTIVE IRRITANT STARTS TOMORROW

Continuing for the full 12 days of Christmas, Spurtle will tomorrow start its annual irritating spot-the-location photo competition with an exciting…
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NEW LIGHTS ON HUGUENOT ENIGMA

Planning permission is sought to reconfigure four existing high-level windows on the east elevation of the peculiar building at 2 Hart Street Lane.…
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THE POWER OF STORYTELLING

Everyone recognises the power of a well-told story. Stories can entertain, alarm, provoke and inform. And, as Blythe Robertson explains here,…
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