Edinburgh Gets Set for the Games
Edinburgh schools will join the countdown to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games with a series of cultural and sporting events across the...
Northgate introduce new accessible buses
In an effort to support public sector transport within the local community Northgate Vehicle Hire has introduced a brand new range of wheelchair accessible...
Eclair lights up the graduation ceremony at Telford College
Perrier award winner and Grumpy Old Women star Jenny Éclair lent a comedic hand to learners celebrating their graduation at Edinburgh’s Telford College this...
Boyack calls for clarity from Education Minister
Scottish Labour MSP for the Lothians, Sarah Boyack has called on the SNP Government to come clean on any plans they have for mergers...
New Range Rover runs into Harvey Nichols…
The all-new Range Rover Evoque – said to be 'one of this season’s must-have motoring style statements' – was the star of a glamorous...
MSP welcomes new affordable housing for Edinburgh
Edinburgh Central MSP Marco Biagi has today welcomed The Scottish Government's announcement of funding for 516 new affordable houses across the city. This includes...
Trams in Edinburgh by 2014….and that’s a promise?
Work is to begin again on completing Edinburgh’s tram line following the signing of a settlement agreement between The City of Edinburgh Council and...
Transport Scotland in the driving seat to deliver Edinburgh trams
The Scottish Government has announced that it will help oversee the final delivery of the Edinburgh trams project.
Ministers have also confirmed that the remaining...
Five things you need to know today
The Sunday Herald published an article yesterday about those MSPs who are still councillors until the next council elections in May 2012, and who...
Five things you need to know today
Today marks the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and in Edinburgh faith groups are planning a peace march.
Yelp advise us in their weekly newsletter that Stockbridge Sunday...
St Andrews and University of Edinburgh most expensive in UK
The University of St Andrews has matched the University of Edinburgh by charging £36,000 for a degree for English, Welsh and Northern Irish students...
Princes Street diversions from 17 September
The diversions previously planned for the start of September are due to take place over the weekend of 17 and 18 September. They will...
Five things you need to know today
One of the bills to be debated at The Scottish Parliament in this session is that relating to a single police force. But this...
Five things you need to know today
The National Museum of Scotland have been inundated with visitors over the weeks since their reopening. They say that they have now welcomed half...
Shandon residents petition against irresponsible parking
Residents in Shandon are calling for a stop to dangerous parking after a serious fire last week that left four homes in Hazelbank Terrace...
Five things you need to know today 7 Sept 2011
We told you about the Jungle City animals who are taking up their positions around the city in anticipation of the charity auction at...
Five things you need to know today
We are not really making any excuses for showing you more of our fireworks photographs. We try hard to take all our own photos...
New Houses in Bonnyrigg to be launched this week
A new showhome with interiors by Amabile Design is being launched this week at Grange Estates’ Hopefield Heights development in Bonnyrigg just eight miles...
Edinburgh Community cafe uses crowdfunding
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...
University of Edinburgh to charge £9,000 a year for a degree
Student leaders at the University of Edinburgh have said that the decision by the University to charge students from elsewhere in the UK a...
Jungle City animals are unleashed in Edinburgh
Jungle City animals have been living in the Botanic Garden Edinburgh for the last month. Today they were freed at the National Gallery of...
Five things you need to know today
Despite the rainy weather which has dogged so much of the Festival period, last night was dry for the Virgin Money Festival Fireworks. We...
Prizes for recycling in Edinburgh
Anyone recycling in Edinburgh from next week could be in for a surprise from Council officers…a £10 shopping voucher! The visits by staff...
Five things you need to know today
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...
Police call for information about armed robberies
Lothian and Borders Police are asking Edinburgh businesses and their clientele to be vigilant for suspicious activity in and around premises following a serious...
Call for visitors to Mela Festival to register as organ donors
Edinburgh Mela visitors will be encouraged to save a life and join the NHS Organ Donor Register at this weekend’s event.
More than 20,000 people...
Council cuts spell the end for ‘People First’ care providers in...
The council's Finance and Resources Committee met earlier this week to discuss, among many other items on a lengthy agenda, a report on home-care...
Edinburgh Council Meeting 2 September 2011 – Audio report
We spoke with Councillor Gordon Mackenzie the LibDem transport convener, Councillor Lesley Hinds, the Labour transport convener, Councillor Steve Cardownie the SNP group leader...
Edinburgh Trams are go
The council met this morning to discuss one item, and that was trams.
They had just met in full council last week, but it was...
Edinburgh Zoo welcomes Anglo-American monkey
Visitors to the monkey house at Edinburgh Zoo have been meeting the Zoo’s latest arrival, an inquisitive orange-eye baby L’hoest’s monkey.
Born on June 26th...
