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DOORS OPEN DAY 2026 – COMING SOON

On Saturday, 26 and Sunday, 27 September, The Cockburn Association will host the Edinburgh and East Lothian Doors Open Days…
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BLENHEIM PLACE

Lovely to see Robert Pattinson taking a break, this lunchtime, from filming in Glasgow.#Edinburgh#hyperlocal#news#Hollywood#glamour…
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PEOPLE HEARING WITHOUT LISTENING

Well, that’s another small tear in the fragile fabric of civilisation, writes David Young.  In the increasingly garish world of so-called ‘…
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108 DAYS TO GO

But at Tesco Broughton Road, it's already beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #shopping #…
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NEW AFTER-SCHOOL CLUB FOR BROUGHTON

The Spurtle received a press release from Broughton St Marys Parish Church today. We reproduce it below unedited and in full. This welcome news…
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CLARA JOHNSON AND EDINBURGH'S SOCIAL EVIL

The redoubtable Victorian brothel-keeper Katherine Johnson featured in Series 6 of the BBC's A History Through Time, which looked at the story of 20–…
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THE END OF SUMMER

Goodbye to all that. #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news #seasons 
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ISSUE 365 – OUT SOON!

As you read this, advance copies of the September Spurtle are already spreading across the barony like bakery bags (asking you to dispose of them…
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NO NEW POWDERHALL FOOTBRIDGE UNTIL 2028

Culture & Communities Cmte convener Cllr Margaret Graham* has confirmed that re-establishing an operational footbridge at Powderhall remains the…
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SAXE COBURG PLACE

Moss'd cottage-trees bent.#Edinburgh#hyperlocal#news#apples#Autumn
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