Summer's arrived on Fantasy Island … and for the first time the place is not looking entirely bleak. Can't actually smell the flowers for the traffic fumes but still, an improvement.
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Polling stations will open tomorrow (4 July) at 7am and close at 10pm.
Remember to take with you a form of photographic identification. Acceptable forms of photo ID include: UK passport, UK driving licence, Blue Badge, Older Person’s Bus Pass, Disabled Person’s Bus Pass, and an identity card bearing the Proof of Age Standards Scheme hologram (a PASS card). For a full list, visit here.
An indoor entanglement.
No. 37 in an occasional photo-series celebrating Spurtleshire street-name signs.
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Leith Central Community Council has joined 76 other objectors in opposing Unite Group PLC’s application to build a 5-storey extension to the side of Shrub Hill House at 8 Middlefield (24/02439/FUL). The proposal would create 20 studio flats with en suites for students. There was one message of support.
As you read this, advance copies of the July Spurtle are already scattering across the barony like political door-steppers fleeing an XL Bully who doesn’t intend to vote.
Page 1 begins with good news on bad cyclists, French pots, a growing shrub and the most extraordinary screw we’ve seen in a long time.
On this page, we will publish responses from candidates who, for whatever reason, were unable to answer questions or have answers read out at the Spurtle's General Election hustings on 24 June. See our summary here.
There were many other questions for which there was no time on the night. All candidates have been invited to answer these, although we recognise that some may be too busy at this stage in their campaigns to do so.
On the evening of 24 June, over 212 people came to the Spurtle’s General Election Hustings in Broughton St Mary’s Parish Church. The meeting was chaired by Leith Central Community Council’s acting vice-chair Harald Tobermann.
The Spurtle hustings will take place on 24 June, 7.30pm–9.30pm, at Broughton St Mary's Parish Church (Bellevue Crescent).
Entry is free but we'd appreciate cash donations afterwards to help us cover the cost of the event - we don't have a card reader.
It would help us to gauge voters' priorities, and set a citizens' agenda, if you either email us questions in advance or outline those policy areas which matter most to you.