DEMOLITION DUST
Another day of choking clouds on Dundas St and Fettes Row. Reality was much worse than it appears in this photo.
GREENSIDE
Shady opportunities are not all they're cracked up to be.
CAUGHT SHORT
Ill-advised abbreviation in Tesco Broughton Road.
TIME AND MOTION
Making moments into memories. For sale in a shop called, appropriately enough, Go Outdoors.
CALTON HILL
High plains drifter.
More letters needed
Dear Spurtle,
Your paper is useful, informative, important. It amazes me, however, there are not more letters in your letters section of your website
Why not have a prominent notification in the paper directing people where and maybe even why to send you letters? There are precious few!
Every newspaper needs feedback to encourage readers' debate. Also directing readers to your website opens up more space for info sharing etc.
Robert Mcdowell
POLICE APPEAL FOR NEXT OF KIN
Police in Scotland have issued the following press release. We reproduce it unedited and in full.
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Police Scotland is appealing for information to help trace the next of kin of an 81-year-old man in Edinburgh.
Officers attended at Canon Street on Thursday, 2 June, 2022 after Alex Fulton passed away. There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.
ISSUE 319 – OUT SOON!
As you read this, advance copies of the July Spurtle are already popping up in odd spots across Broughton like lost tourists walking in circles on York Lane in search of Britannia.
Issue 319 begins with an unlikely marriage, a Scots vow, and a surprise half-quote from Macbeth few if any have remarked before. Scores of architectural changes follow, as do clouds of dust, a tactical victory, and the return of a local artist certified dead for roughly 125 years. He’s looking well.