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FRESH START FOR FORMER DEBENHAM’S

COUNCILLORS APPROVE RADICAL RETHINK Councillors on the Development Management Subcommittee this morning granted planning permission for Legal &…
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THE PERILS OF PROMOTION

Below is the full version of a piece we reproduced in Spurtle Issue 307. It is from the Scotsman, 18 September 1897. The aesthetics of bill-sticking…
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LADY WITH THE LITTLE DOG

Our neighbour and long-time Spurtle supporter Dr Joy Hendry is a distinguished editor, critic, and all-round ‘lady of letters’ whose work for the…
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ISSUE 307 – OUT TOMORROW!

As you read this, advance copies of the June Spurtle are already finding their way into shops, bars, homes, and recycling bins across Broughton and…
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EDWARDIAN NEWS FROM THE MEWS, 21

EDINBURGH COUNCILLOR’S ROMANCE In the Court of Session on Tuesday, before Lord Low, evidence was led in an action by Euphemia Cumming Montgomery, 3…
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PLANNING UPDATE

‘SHAKE THINGS UP A BIT, WHAT?’ The mysterious depths of 38 Queen Street are explained in plans associated with a proposal to convert part of the…
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DEATH OF TEENAGER – MAN CONVICTED

Readers will remember the tragic case of Mhari O’Neill, the 15-year-old Edinburgh woman whose body was discovered on Calton Hill on 8 December 2018…
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EDWARDIAN NEWS FROM THE MEWS, 20

A CONTUMACIOUS PRISONER. A woman named Elizabeth Igo was brought to the bar of Edinburgh Police Court to-day, charged with being drunk and…
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NOT ANY OLD IRON

Living in a World Heritage Site, we tend – rightly – to focus on the preservation and restoration of its finest features. But sometimes, the…
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EDWARDIAN NEWS FROM THE MEWS, 19

1904 ______________   A LIFETIME WITH ONE FIRM. The above is a portrait of Mr George Sime, who passed away Wednesday last at the ripe age of…
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