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DODGY ELECTION BAR CHARTS 3

Another day, another glossy leaflet delivered with fast food flyers, another dodgy bar chart. Actually, this is a repeat of Bar chart 2, but we're…
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HISTORIC STEP FOR ANNANDALE MOSQUE

 FIRST WOMAN APPOINTED TO COMMITTEE Annandale Mosque is honoured to appoint Mrs Nasim Azad as a committee member, writes Imam Hassan…
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MR BONES IS DECOMPOSED

 LIFE, QUALMS, AND THE WRONG WORD Do you ever have the feeling, just as your coach is crossing the Forth Road Bridge, that you have left…
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DODGY ELECTION BAR CHARTS 2

Oh dear. Having pledged we'd take to task all election-connected mangled mathematics that came our way, Spurtle had been hoping we wouldn't have to…
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ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY?

 NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT IN St ANDREW SQUARE GARDEN  It all began so promisingly.  Uninterrupted grass returfed across St Andrew…
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DODGY ELECTION BAR CHARTS

With yet another election comes the potential for more barcharts to make maths teachers weep.  Throughout this campaign, Spurtle will highlight…
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NOT DARK AND DREARY ENOUGH

The rather charming quote currently featured on Curiouser and Curiouser’s Broughton Street A-board is taken from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret…
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COWARDLY ATTEMPTED ROBBERY

What follows is a press release from Police Scotland. We reproduce it unedited and in full. Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses…
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ELECTION RESULTS IN BRIEF

Council-supplied results in detail are available in the pdfs at the foot of this page. Council-supplied results for outlying parts of Edinburgh…
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GET UP, GET OUT AND GO VOTE!

You have until 10.00pm tonight to cast your vote in the City of Edinburgh Council election.You don’t need your poll card to vote, but it will speed…
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