Leith firm, Crabbie’s, is sponsoring Hibs and the new strip will be worn at the end of July according to The Herald. The paper had a rather curious title on the photo they used in the article however. It went like this:- “dfadfad dfadfadf”. Sunday editors?

The Edinburgh International Film Festival starts this week, but there will be no red carpets. There may be some starlets in town though. Do send us any photos of famous people seen around town!

A blog which was apparently written by a gay half-American, half-Syrian woman living in Damascus has been revealed as a hoax. The BBC report that it is in fact written by an American student at the University of Edinburgh.

And over the weekend, England rugby captain, Mike Tindall, who is due to marry The Queen’s granddaughter, Zara Philips in Edinburgh in just seven weeks’ time, held a stag do in Miami. The bar bill was an eye-popping $20,000 according to The Daily Mail.

A reasonably quiet week at Edinburgh Council this week with only a few meetings. We hope to bring you a report from the Policy and Strategy Committee meeting tomorrow. A preview of the meeting with a copy of the agenda is here.