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TRAVEL GUIDE PLUMBS NEW DEPTHS

The website itravelfun.com has few rivals for strangled prose and recycled wobbly-eyed gobbledegook in its guide to Europe’s most haunted places. Can…
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LATE SUMMER MULCH

The Fringe has finished. The Festival is coming to a close. Some will celebrate, some will commiserate, so to ease the transition from…
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ISSUE 233 – OUT SOON!

As you read this, September’s print edition of the Spurtle is thundering off the press, being folded in half in a flash, and then cascading into…
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WORK–LIFE BALANCE IS THE KEY

Nobody is indispensible, observes Jennifer Lewin, who sent us this photo today of a rear exit on Broughton Street Lane. I think the door should…
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TELLING IT LIKE IT MIGHT BE

In Spurtle’s wanderings about Broughton over recent weeks, we have noticed an overwhelming number of window and lamppost stickers urging us to vote…
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HURRY! LAST FEW DAYS FOR PROBLEM-SOLVERS

Only five-and-a-half days remain in which to send in your answers to Spurtle’s super-duper summer brainteaser.Follow this link to find out what all…
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COUNCIL CONSULTS ON SLOWER CITY

The whole of Broughton could be covered by a 20mph zone under plans mooted by City of Edinburgh Council. Bellevue already has such a speed limit…
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'BOTANICAL GARDEN' IS WILDLY CULTIVATED

German artist Isa Genzken first came to prominence in the 1970s. This exhibition, Botanical Garden at Inverleith House, focuses on Genzken’s work of…
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EDINBURGH THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

One Spurtle reviewer and around 10 other punters embarked on the Alternative Edinburgh Walking Tour yesterday afternoon under the brisk and self-…
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OLD MORTALITY AND THE WISE EUGENIA

The following extract is from ‘Old Mortality’, Chapter 3 in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Memories and Portraits: a collection of essays first…
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