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COLOURS IN THE SPECTRUM

Today is World Autism Awareness Day, as part of which important buildings and structures around the globe are being lit up blue. There are…
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EDNBURGH'S WANDERING KIRK

In April's Spurtle, John Ross Maclean describes the Ruskin pencil drawing of 1838 (now in Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery), which was long held…
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'RE-PROFILED' DRUMMOND PLAYGROUND PROMISES GROWTH

Urban planning experts say there's a strong case for flattening the space outside Drummond Community High School. But they face an uphill task…
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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES 3: BARONY STREET

DAVID HILL VOYAGES UPRIVER In Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow suggests that we live as we dream – alone. Others' innermost thoughts and…
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ISSUE 239 – OUT SOON!

Imagine an enormous black and white Easter bunny lolloping out of its burrow and blinking nonchalantly in the bright sunlight of a new dawn.In some…
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QUACKING IN CONCRETE

Love a duck. Who doesn't? We do.And so were delighted to encounter this one in the window of Concrete Wardrobe on Broughton Street this afternoon.…
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RESIST THIS HORRIBLE GREAT LUMP

Brentford-based JCDecaux UK Limited have applied for permission to erect a freestanding steel and aluminium ‘Forum Display Structure’ on George…
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'DARK REGISTER' ALL LIT UP

Answers to Freedom of Information requests submitted by the Spurtle throw new light on why City of Edinburgh Council wanted the old Royal High School…
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GEORGE STREET ON HER MIND

Local resident Caroline Roussot attended the latest George Street stakeholders’ meeting on 17 March. It’s a quarterly coming together of those…
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BUZZERK IN BELLEVUE

It’s late: 9.30pm-late and we’re all in bed. With the Little Left-Handed Tea Drinker insisting on getting up at 5.00am every morning, we sleep when…
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