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HAPPY ENDING FOR SAGA OF CAT WITH KINKY TAIL

Poppy has been found! writes a relieved Spurtle reader.My wife picked her up early this morning. She [Poppy] had been hiding out in the Heriot Hill…
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FIELD STAR KEEPS BREAKING RECORDS

Local field athlete Kimberley Reed's sporting career goes from strength to strength. Here, father Scott Reed summarises the latest trials,…
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SOMETHING FAMILIAR IN REMOTE IMAGE?

A frequent Twitter correspondent to the Spurtle, @dOSsDaz, has been racking his brains recently trying to remember what a local street artist's…
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PLANNING UPDATE: 15.8.11

The Glasgow-based Iona Pub Partnership (which runs the 5-storey GHQ at 4 Picardy Place) seeks to erect a security fence on Broughton Street (Ref. 11/…
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CITY CENTRE BY-ELECTION BUMF

There's no point in re-inventing the wheel: CEC media staff have issued a perfectly decent press release which we reproduce almost in full below…
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TRICYCLES MADE FOR FOUR

The Festival is a time of feverish activity for all kinds of local businesses, not least Chariot Media who were working overtime yesterday afternoon…
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SHE'S BEHIND YOU ...

We reviewed Philip Braham's exhibition Still. here a few days ago, and mentioned in passing the haunted quality of many of the paintings.Now, it…
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FACING UP TO THE SUPERMARKET CHALLENGE

Not for the first time, Spurtle raised the vexed issue of the effects supermarkets have on our town and city centres earlier this month (Issue 197).…
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SORE POINT

You can forget being fashionably late: a particular Spurtle correspondent prefers arriving on time or preferably early.Hence, turning up today for…
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NOT FUNNY, PECULIAR ... FUNNY, HA-HA

Know any good jokes? Mansfield Place-based charity Waverley Care want to hear them.They've launched a new social-media campaign – #laffoffstigma –…
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