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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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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CAT?

Anyone seen Poppy? She popped out on Wednesday 10 August and didn't return.Her Claremont Grove owners describe her as quite small with yellow eyes.…
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PLANNING UPDATE - 8.8.11

A rash of 'telecommunication broadband cabinets' are planned by Openreach for pavements across Broughton and elsewhere in the capital. They measure a…
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CITY CENTRE HUSTINGS – HOW THE CANDIDATES FARED

It would be wrong to say that City Centre voters are disenchanted with local politics. Those 52 people who turned up for a 2-hour hustings at the…
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HAS SUITCASE, WILL TRAVEL

We first mentioned local author Marianne Wheelaghan and her debut novel The Blue Suitcase towards the end of last year  (Breaking news 20.11.10…
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GLIMPSE OF THE EAST ON WALLS OF THE NORTH

A series of stencilled graffiti in up to four colours has appeared on a section of wall and pavement in Cathedral Lane.Mysteriously oriental, the…
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CITY CENTRE HUSTINGS: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Last night's Spurtle hustings on Bellevue Crescent was one of the best and liveliest we remember.Below is an impartial, abbreviated account of the…
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'STILL.' WATERS RUN DEEP

Still. – a solo exhibition of work by Philip Braham first previewed here in June – is now showing at the Union Gallery, and attracting interest from…
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SOAPBOX 6: ALISTAIR HODGSON (LIB-DEM)

The Liberal Democrat candidate in the forthcoming Ward 11 by-election is Alistair Hodgson, writes Lib-Dem Councillor Charles Dundas.Alistair was…
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