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OPEN ALL HOURS FOR 21 YEARS

If you’re passing Canonmills Newsagents this sunny Wednesday, pop in and congratulate Anwar and Ruby. Today, they’re celebrating 21 years in charge…
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CITY CENTRE HUSTINGS, 2022

A PARTIAL ACCOUNT ‘More like Just a Minute than University Challenge’ was how chair Carol Nimmo proposed Wednesday’s hustings for the City…
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MORE YORK PLACE DISRUPTION – BE PREPARED

A temporary road closure will be in place next week from 9 am on Tuesday 12 April to 5 am on Wednesday 13 April. ‘Surfacing and lining work’ means…
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STAFFORD CENTRE SEEKS VOLUNTEERS

The Stafford Centre, on Broughton Street, is looking for two new volunteers in its work with people living in the Edinburgh area who experience…
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COCKBURN ISSUES 'MANIFESTO FOR THE CITY'

The Cockburn Association, Edinburgh’s oldest heritage watchdog, has launched a Manifesto for the City in advance of next month’s Local Government…
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DEMANDS FOR SAFER ELM ROW DESIGN

In a deputation to the Transport & Environment Cmte last week, the Community Councils Together for Trams Group (CCTTG) raised safety issues about…
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EXPERT PROBES LEGAL ANOMALY

COULD FAG END OF FEUDALISM BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO AULD ALLIANCES? When the United Kingdom exited the European Union on 31 January 2020, many Scots…
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS – FULL LIST OF LOCAL CANDIDATES

Edinburgh Council has published the final list of candidates standing in the Local Government Elections on 5 May. For Spurtleshire, they are as…
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ISSUE 316 — OUT TOMORROW!

As you read this, advance copies of the April Spurtle are already drifting across Broughton like spring snowflakes on a northerly wind. Brace…
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TRAM RETURNS TO BROUGHTON

On Thursday last week, a tram reached York Place for the first time since 10 February – but just to test the newly reconfigured track. Accompanied…
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