Happy 2013! The first issue of the year is now hurtling off the presses like a speeding cork shot from the bore of a champagne bottle smack into the gaping hyperlocal Nostril of Curiosity.
This month's Spurtle carries news of tough questions for a local business, furious locals and a vast plouk, dangerous improvements, welcome downgrades, an unwelcome squeeze and an overgrown triangle.
It also contains herbs with verve, a poetic resolution, an astonishing (unpublished) photograph which has to be seen to be believed, and the curious case of wandering Canonmills.
Add to that everything you could wish to know about local clock repairs, four-legged adventure, new loo provision and reinforced concrete.
Nobody covers Broughton like the Spurtle, which will, as usual, be vigorously shaken and squirted across the former barony via shops, clubs, cafés, libraries, barbers, boozers, galleries, crooks and nannies, and all points in-between.
Alternatively, you can download it in full colour from our home page as of tomorrow.
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