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SO, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING, EXACTLY?

How is your head? If the combination of recent meeting and greeting, central heating and over-eating has once again reduced it to the size of a…
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Spurtle rose bright and early today, and embarked upon 2014 with the customary clear head and clean conscience. We recorded our brisk constitutional…
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A WINTER'S TALE

Tim Smith – Spurtle's chief cycling correspondent and grammarian – has a dark secret. He devises puzzles. For your amusement and/or irritation, his…
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MERRY CHRISTMAS – SEASONAL SNAPSHOT 25

The Broughton Spurtle is now officially Christmased-out. We shall be taking a festive rest for the next few days before returning with online news…
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'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS – SEASONAL SNAPSHOT 24

Staff at Ampersand Interiors on Dublin Street have been looking forward to Christmas for weeks. Their window shows a period fireplace, stockings…
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FOX NEWS FOR BROUGHTON – SEASONAL SNAPSHOT 23

When it comes to Christmas foxes, Broughton Street struggles to compete with Jay Perkins’s Christmas lightshow this year. The Tulsa, Texas resident ‘…
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DINNER IS SERVED – PLAYGROUND-CHOMPING CLASSROOMS GET THE GO-AHEAD

It will surpise few to learn that the City of Edinburgh Council has granted planning permission to the City of Edinburgh Council for a new, 2-storey…
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RODNEY STREET BELOW THE RADAR

The Rodney Street Tunnel may not be the most obvious of Broughton's attractions, but it's well worth a passing trip at the moment. The pedestrian and…
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FOR WE ALL LIKE FIGGY PUDDING – SEASONAL SNAPSHOT 22

Local residents are lucky in the number and quality of eating places in this corner of north-central Edinburgh. Friendly but ferocious culinary…
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LOSS OF PARKING RE-IGNITES LEITH WALK DEBATE

Strong reactions have greeted City of Edinburgh Council's roll-out of Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) 13/51 for Leith Walk as part of the new…
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