Skip to main content

Breaking news

NEW LIFE IN OLD BOTANIC COTTAGE

Transformation of the Botanic Cottage will be complete later this month when members of the public are finally able to walk inside and look…
Read More
DUNDAS STREET DIN DISPUTE

An increasingly noisy row has broken out on Dundas Street concerning early-morning disturbance or the lack of it. Archipelago Artisan Bakery at…
Read More
HIGH TIME TO TRIM TOO-BIG LEITH?

NEIGHBOURHOOD PARTNERSHIP FACES CRITICISM Spurtle has nothing against Leith. We love it. We visit it daily and report aspects of it which…
Read More
HOLYROOD ELECTION RESULTS

Local results for the Scottish Parliamentary elections are in. They show significant gains for the Scottish National Party, Conservatives and…
Read More
ASSAULT ON NORTH BRIDGE

What follows is a Police Scotland press release issued yesterday afternoon. We reprint it in full and unedited. ***** Police in…
Read More
TEMPORARY REPAIRS NOT A PATCH ON THE ORIGINAL

Locals were unimpressed today by unsightly repairs to 20 sq.m. of East London Street. Andrew Haddow, who contacted the Spurtle, said Council…
Read More
SIMPLICITY WITH A SWISH

PRINTS BY ANNE RUSSELL – REVIEWED BY RHYS FULLERTON  I’d like to start with a warning. Some of the photos of the exhibition on this page really…
Read More
NEW HOPE FOR CANONMILLS BRIDGE CAMPAIGNERS?

SEPA MAY STEP IN Some people may have thought that the fight to save 1–6 Canonmills Bridge is now a lost cause (Breaking news, 29.1.16), but die…
Read More
REMEMBERING THE ‘STORMY PETREL’

The Great Storm of 14 October 1881 claimed the lives of 189 men, most of them fishermen from Eyemouth (129) and Burnmouth (24), but 17 originating…
Read More
PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES 14

DAVID HILL CONSIDERS FORTH STREET AND BROUGHTON PLACE Lightness and possibility inform the morning air as I head past the metropolitan cathedral…
Read More