ELECTION CANDIDATES 2026
Candidates were finalised yesterday for the Edinburgh North Eastern & Leith constituency in the Scottish Parliamentary elections.
EXTRA VA VA VOOM FOR PUSHY PARENTS
Eighteen months of capital trials look set to begin this summer for e-Bebé – an initiative promising to cut city-centre congestion and shave hours off parents’ and carers’ journey ti
MANSFIELD PLACE
Life imitating art.
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ISSUE 360 – OUT SOON!
As you read this, advance copies of the April Spurtle are already spreading across Broughton like strangely musclebound birdwatchers wandering innocently across the beaches of Kharg
EDINBURGH RHAPSODY IN BLUE
A view across the Old Town.
Braid and Pentland Hills in the background.
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TIME TO REFLECT
Dear Spurtle,
I wonder, having only just noticed it myself, whether or not you've been inundated with comments about the March Spurtle (Issue 359) being dated 2025.
It's somewhat appropriate, being just above the illustration of the long extinct Dodo ….
Elizabeth Brown
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Dear Ms Brown,
Thank you for drawing this to our attention.
To enable accurate searching of back issues in future, the online version has been corrected to 2026.
There have been a number of gleeful readers' comments about this in recent weeks, most of them to the effect that the Editor doesn't know his annus from his elbow.
Guilty as charged.
The Editor
CALTON HILL LITTER-PICK
Members and non-members of Calton Hill Conservation Trust welcome.
Equipment, refreshments and litter provided. But BRING YOUR OWN GLOVES and be prepared for sweltering heat and snow and torrential rain.
Organisers would appreciate an RSVP at: info@caltonhilltrust.org
Date and time
Venue
Outside the City Observatory Collective Gallery (car park side).
HOLYROOD HUSTINGS
The Broughton Spurtle hosts another election hustings, this time with candidates standing in the Edinburgh North Eastern & Leith constituency.
Admission free, but please bring cash for a bucket donation towards our costs.
Event closes at 9.30pm.
You can ask a question on the night, or send one or more in early at spurtle@hotmail.co.uk
Date and time
Venue
Broughton St Mary's Parish Church, Bellevue Crescent