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FIELD STAR KEEPS BREAKING RECORDS
Wednesday 17 August 2011 - 11:20
Local field athlete Kimberley Reed's sporting career goes from strength to strength. Here, father Scott Reed summarises the latest trials,…
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SOMETHING FAMILIAR IN REMOTE IMAGE?
Tuesday 16 August 2011 - 15:55
A frequent Twitter correspondent to the Spurtle, @dOSsDaz, has been racking his brains recently trying to remember what a local street artist's…
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PLANNING UPDATE: 15.8.11
Tuesday 16 August 2011 - 11:56
The Glasgow-based Iona Pub Partnership (which runs the 5-storey GHQ at 4 Picardy Place) seeks to erect a security fence on Broughton Street (Ref. 11/…
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CITY CENTRE BY-ELECTION BUMF
Tuesday 16 August 2011 - 11:05
There's no point in re-inventing the wheel: CEC media staff have issued a perfectly decent press release which we reproduce almost in full below…
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TRICYCLES MADE FOR FOUR
Tuesday 16 August 2011 - 10:44
The Festival is a time of feverish activity for all kinds of local businesses, not least Chariot Media who were working overtime yesterday afternoon…
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SHE'S BEHIND YOU ...
Monday 15 August 2011 - 17:25
We reviewed Philip Braham's exhibition Still. here a few days ago, and mentioned in passing the haunted quality of many of the paintings.Now, it…
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FACING UP TO THE SUPERMARKET CHALLENGE
Monday 15 August 2011 - 12:04
Not for the first time, Spurtle raised the vexed issue of the effects supermarkets have on our town and city centres earlier this month (Issue 197).…
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SORE POINT
Sunday 14 August 2011 - 17:29
You can forget being fashionably late: a particular Spurtle correspondent prefers arriving on time or preferably early.Hence, turning up today for…
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NOT FUNNY, PECULIAR ... FUNNY, HA-HA
Friday 12 August 2011 - 15:04
Know any good jokes? Mansfield Place-based charity Waverley Care want to hear them.They've launched a new social-media campaign – #laffoffstigma –…
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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CAT?
Friday 12 August 2011 - 13:26
Anyone seen Poppy? She popped out on Wednesday 10 August and didn't return.Her Claremont Grove owners describe her as quite small with yellow eyes.…
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