Monthly Archives: September 2011

Photo © Peter DibdinThe 21st Scottish International Storytelling Festival is launched on Thursday 8th September by Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and...

One of the bills to be debated at The Scottish Parliament in this session is that relating to a single police force. But this...

The National Museum of Scotland have been inundated with visitors over the weeks since their reopening. They say that they have now welcomed half...

Simply FixIT tell us  We're hiring!With the opening of our 5th store at Stockbridge we have openings for full time technicians. If you have experience...

Residents in Shandon are calling for a stop to dangerous parking after a serious fire last week that left four homes in Hazelbank Terrace...

British director Tim Supple’s extraordinary stage adaptation of the classic Arabic masterpiece makes evident demands on its audience. It’s more than six hours long,...

Edinburgh Castle, Scotland’s number one tourist attraction, welcomed  205,832 visitors to the Castle in August this year, making it the highest number of paying...

We told you about the Jungle City animals who are taking up their positions around the city in anticipation of the charity auction at...

Local writer Nicola Morgan is one of 9 authors to be shortlisted for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2011, the Scottish Book Trust announced...

 We are not really making any excuses for showing you more of our fireworks photographs. We try hard to take all our own photos...

A  new showhome with interiors by Amabile Design is being launched this week at Grange Estates’ Hopefield Heights development in Bonnyrigg just eight miles...

An Edinburgh based community café is one of a number of projects signed up to take part in new online approach to fundraising used by President...

  The first ever Scottish Apprenticeship Week gets underway today. During the week employers in Edinburgh will be encouraged to explore the benefits of employing...

Thursday 15th September at 11.45am sees the launch of BNI (Business Network International) Scotland South and East Region’s first lunchtime chapter called Breakfast in...

Student leaders at the University of Edinburgh have said that the decision by the University to charge students from elsewhere in the UK a...

Edinburgh Polo Club held their Autumn Tournament over the weekend of the 3rd and 4th of September, the second last competitive weekend of the...

The Jungle City animals which have been nestling in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for the last few weeks have finally been allowed out...

Jungle City animals have been living in the Botanic Garden Edinburgh for the last month. Today they were freed at the National Gallery of...

Despite the rainy weather which has dogged so much of the Festival period, last night was dry for the Virgin Money Festival Fireworks. We...

We had a photographer in the Ross Bandstand yesterday evening to capture some more angles of the Virgin Money Festival Fireworks. 100,000 fireworks were...

Anyone recycling in Edinburgh from next week could be in for a surprise from Council officers…a £10 shopping voucher! The visits by staff...

The first of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra’s concerts took the bold decision of contrasting music by two of the 20th century’s most distinctive voices...

Aquamarine Power, the pioneering wave energy company, has agreed a £3.4 million loan with Barclays Corporate in a deal that marks an important milestone...

According to Virgin Money and Edinburgh International Festival there were 250,000 spectators in Edinburgh at various locations to watch the finale this evening. For...

The world’s Festival set to finish with over 100,000 bangs and whistles tonight.The grand finale, the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert is launched from Edinburgh Castle tonight...

They came, they saw, they gave Edinburgh a right kicking - or so the scoreline would suggest. First league match of the new season and...

Tonight in Edinburgh there will be about 37 minutes of bangs from the Virgin Money Festival Fireworks during the 45 minute display....We are looking...

Lothian and Borders Police are asking Edinburgh businesses and their clientele to be vigilant for suspicious activity in and around premises following a serious...

Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard  adapted for Theatre Alba by Jo Clifford, is a very good serious play which had an added dimension as this...

This comedy sketch show by Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon was a show that had some of the audience laughing and loving it whilst...