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‘SCOTTISH BEACON’ LIT TODAY

The Broughton Spurtle and 19 other independent local and hyperlocal news publications serving urban and rural communities across Scotland have joined…
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DONALD, WHERE‘S YOUR FIVERS?

A TAILOR’S ADVENTURE IN EDINBURGH A cautionary tale for visitors, from the Edinburgh Evening News, 3 Oct 1898. The Edinburgh detective staff are at…
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ISSUE 331 PUBLISHED TODAY

Warning! Contains superheroes. Find your printed copy in shops, services and libraries throughout Broughton and beyond. Or download your colour pdf…
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HARD MILES FOR A GOOD CAUSE

LOCAL RESIDENT ON TREK FOR CRISIS My name is Jamie Forbes and I live on East London Street.  I work for Lloyds Banking Group and I am raising…
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HART STREET LANE

Variations on the straight and narrow. No. 21 in an occasional photo series celebrating the street-name signs of Spurtleshire. #Edinburgh #…
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ISSUE 332 – OUT SOON!

Like raindrops clattering off an Edinburgh summer parasol, advance copies of the August Spurtle are already spreading across the barony and will land…
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COO, LOOK WHO’S BACK!

The doos are home on Elm Row. Shona Kinloch’s eight brass figures were removed from the site in 2006 as preparations began on the tramline extension…
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POLICE APPEAL AFTER DISTURBANCE ON GEORGE STREET

Police Scotland today issued the following press release. We reproduce it below unedited and in full. ***** Detectives are appealing for witnesses…
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ELDER STREET EAST

And so it started …. No. 20 in an occasional photo series celebrating #Spurtleshire #street-name #signs. #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news…
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SUMMERY St MARK'S PARK

Gormley in the foreground. Beaverhall not far behind. #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news
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