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ELECTION CANDIDATES 2026

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Candidates were finalised yesterday for the Edinburgh North Eastern & Leith constituency in the Scottish Parliamentary elections.

 

David LEES – Reform UK
Ben MACPHERSON – Scottish National Party (SNP)
Kate NEVENS – Scottish Green Party
Liss OWEN – Scottish Liberal Democrats
Oliver Philip THOMAS – Scottish Labour Party
Haris YOUNG – Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party

 

EXTRA VA VA VOOM FOR PUSHY PARENTS

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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 times each year.

 

At July’s Transport & Environment Cmte, Lyons-based urban solutions consultants SeraParfait (SARL) will seek consent to pilot a 300-strong fleet of rentable battery-assisted prams and push-chairs, available for pick-up or deposit at over 20 Edinburgh ‘communication nodes’, starting in August. 

 

ISSUE 360 – OUT SOON!

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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 Island counting puffins.

 

Issue 360 begins on Page 1 with news of opposition, past and ongoing, to ever more visitor rooms in the area when what Edinburgh citizens really want is homes. There’s news, too, of Council penny-pinching in Powderhall and a People & Places puzzle which over 2 months perplexed and pissed off our readers in unequal proportions. We announce the winner.

Time to reflect

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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).
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