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HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU

Is anybody else bothered by the lamp-post wraps springing up around Broughton over the last year? We’ve noticed their intermittent appearance on…
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LAST CHANCE TO SEE SUTTON GALLERY'S 'WINTER SHOW'

REVIEWED BY RHYS FULLERTON The Sutton Gallery’s Winter Show features a wide variety of styles by over a dozen artists. Despite its name, the…
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HOOTS, TOOTS – SAY NO TO SPROOTS

The following exchange has taken place every Christmas for as long as I can remember. PARENTAL: How many Brussels sprouts do you want for your…
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NOT SO SPRUCE NOW ...

This sorry-looking specimen on McDonald Road has a story to tell. But what is it? With a week still to go before Christmas, it speaks perhaps of…
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FIVE SQUARE PHOTOS QUIZ – WEEK 3

For no very good reason, Spurtle is running a spot-the-location quiz. Each Wednesday between now and the end of the year, we'll publish five…
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RICH AND STRANGE: 'DREAMWALKING WITH HARES'

The fabulous creatures on this page are the work of Sally Bruce Richards, and appear in her first solo exhibition at Northumberland Street’s Gallery…
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SHRUB HILL SAINSBURY'S SEEK SUNDAY DELIVERIES

The lovely people at Sainsbury’s have applied to vary a condition of their planning permission to allow Sunday deliveries (13/00241/FUL) at 7 Shrub…
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MYSTERY QUOTE – CAN YOU PLACE IT?

Can any reader identify the source of the words in the window of Concrete Wardrobe on Broughton Street? What looks like a quotation accompanies…
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GUERILLA KNIT MISSES POINT?

Reader Liz Ballantyne has spotted this yarn-bombing commentary attached to the site fence at Shrub Place. The statement – MORE SOCIAL HOUSING…
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BEHOLDERS BAULK AT HEAVENLY BALDIES

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said…
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