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NEW TOWN CONTAINERISATION – DRAFT PLANS AVAILABLE HERE EARLY

At long last, provisional Council plans for where to site on-street waste containers in the New Town and West End are about to be issued. Spurtle has…
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HAMMER-THROWING REED BACKS LEAD 2014

Broughton hammer-throwing sensation and Team Scotland member Kimberley Reed will be busy at today's Lead 2014 conference at Edinburgh University,…
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DRUMMOND YOUTH WORKERS IN NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT

Students from Drummond Community High School have come in as runners-up at the prestigious National Youth Worker of the Year Awards.The six senior…
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COO'S A PRETTY BOY, THEN?

This rather appealing pigeon (right) and its mate have cropped up on one of the disintegrating entrances to the apparently disintegrating 93 McDonald…
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DEMOCRACY AT THE SHARP END

The presidential election in Kenya earlier this month brought victory for Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta. Although the violence associated with…
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SPACE NOT RIGHT FOR NEW TOWN TARDISES – PLANNING UPDATE (12.3.13)

Planning consent has been refused for the insertion of two refurbished police boxes for use as coffee kiosks on North Castle Street and Hanover…
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FRESH DOUBTS ON DRUMMOND GARDEN OPENNESS

New doubts regarding fairness, openness and administrative competence have surfaced in relation to granting wider access to Drummond Place Garden (…
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CARS NOT HOMES FOR LOGIE GREEN ROAD

A seemingly mundane planning proposal for land between Logie Green Road and Beaverbank Place is not so mundane after all.In the fine print, it…
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MARBLED CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE DRIZZLE

For my final Spurtle recipe, I’m going back to one of my favourite Broughton Street retailers: Coco Chocolate. I have been in love with their 72%…
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DRUMMOND GARDEN STUSHIE RUMBLES ON

Since Spurtle published Bill Giles’s response to our piece in Issue 215 (Breaking news, 28.2.13), we have  been contacted separately by two past…
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