Breaking news
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
BEST WISHES FROM ALL AT THE SPURTLE. An' thyat – to paraphrase Forrest Gump – is awall we hyave to sigh abyat thyat.Normal…
Read More
BEST WISHES FROM ALL AT THE SPURTLE. An' thyat – to paraphrase Forrest Gump – is awall we hyave to sigh abyat thyat.Normal…
Read More
FIVE SQUARE PHOTOS QUIZ – WEEK 5
For no very good reason, Spurtle has been running a spot-the-location quiz. Each Wednesday this month we've published five square photographs…
Read More
For no very good reason, Spurtle has been running a spot-the-location quiz. Each Wednesday this month we've published five square photographs…
Read More
WOMAN ATTACKED UNDER WELLINGTON STATUE
Police Scotland issued a press release this afternoon which we reproduce unedited and in full below. Police in Edinburgh are appealing for…
Read More
Police Scotland issued a press release this afternoon which we reproduce unedited and in full below. Police in Edinburgh are appealing for…
Read More
GEORGE STREET EXPERIMENT THRIVES ON SUCCESS AND FAILURE
Iain MacPhail, City of Edinburgh Council’s City Centre Programme Manager, contacted us yesterday with a response to our recent article on the ‘George…
Read More
Iain MacPhail, City of Edinburgh Council’s City Centre Programme Manager, contacted us yesterday with a response to our recent article on the ‘George…
Read More
WITHDRAWN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN – PLANNING NEWS
A planning application to convert 7–8 Baxter’s Place from a social club to five residential apartments has been withdrawn. (Ref. 14/03707/LBC;…
Read More
A planning application to convert 7–8 Baxter’s Place from a social club to five residential apartments has been withdrawn. (Ref. 14/03707/LBC;…
Read More
NEVER MIND THE FORELOCKS
Whose life may be counted properly complete without the existence in it somewhere of an early 19th-century Venetian brass ‘hippocamp’ gondola oarlock…
Read More
Whose life may be counted properly complete without the existence in it somewhere of an early 19th-century Venetian brass ‘hippocamp’ gondola oarlock…
Read More
ROAST BLOODY MARY TOMATO SOUP
This bleak midwinter, Paul Dow – head chef at the Magnum Bar and Restaurant – has designs to warm the cockles of your heart. Followed…
Read More
This bleak midwinter, Paul Dow – head chef at the Magnum Bar and Restaurant – has designs to warm the cockles of your heart. Followed…
Read More
BETTER OUT THAN IN
To get you through this testing Christmas period, I’m sharing some semi-digested grumblings.They are perfect to read aloud at the festive table or,…
Read More
To get you through this testing Christmas period, I’m sharing some semi-digested grumblings.They are perfect to read aloud at the festive table or,…
Read More
FOR KING AND COUNTRY – ONE HUNDRED YEARS ON
The Scottish Government has produced the following account in recent days, which we thought is of sufficient local interest to reproduce unedited and…
Read More
The Scottish Government has produced the following account in recent days, which we thought is of sufficient local interest to reproduce unedited and…
Read More
SEASON'S TWEETINGS!
The Left-Handed Tea Drinker will return tomorrow with typically cheerful…
Read More
The Left-Handed Tea Drinker will return tomorrow with typically cheerful…
Read More