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The council is recommending that an application to change the planning permission at the former RBS site at the bottom of Dundas Street is...

Scottish Conservative leader, Russell Findlay MSP led the party's health team in announcing the party’s plans to tackle delayed discharge from hospital in Scotland. A delayed...

Cllr Ross McKenzie who was first elected as a Scottish Labour representative has joined the Scottish Green Party. The councillor for Sighthill/Gorgie has been...

This week at the council Monday, 8th December, 2025 9.30 am Meeting of Licensing Sub-Committee on 08/12 at 9.30 am - Dean of Guild Court Room - City Chambers Tuesday, 9th December, 2025 10.00 am Meeting...

COMMUNITIES will pay the price as another 1,000 inmates are let out early to tackle the prison overcrowding crisis, it has been claimed. Chief Superintendent...

Police are appealing for information after a fatal crash near Linlithgow that took place around 6.55pm on Friday, 5 December, 2025. The crash involved a...

POLICE Scotland paid almost out £5.5million last year to settle claims from their own officers and the public, recently released figures show. The force paid...

Police are appealing for help from the public to trace 13-year-old Aleighsha Brechin, who has been reported missing from Prestonpans. Aleighsha was last seen 08:30am...

Sheriffhall update In the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal signed several years ago between all the local authorities in the are, and...

At last, some long-term thinking about our energy supplies.  Scotland features hugely in the UK Government’s plans to upgrade our gas and electricity networks....

Funds from Edinburgh’s Transient Visitor Levy will be used for new housing – although questions were raised about the legality of the plans. Councillors approved...

French Film Festival UK - final weeks With just two weeks left of French Film Festival UK 2025 which runs until 14 December), escape...

Richard Demarco is Scottish European of the Year 2025 Richard Demarco, CBE, has received the honour of being named Scottish European of the Year 2025....

On Tuesday morning there was a crash on Maybury Road involving two lorries and a bus, reported to police about 8.15am. One truck carried...

Edinburgh’s Christmas' is calling out for the city’s dogs to take part in the Santa Paws event on Sunday. This is an attempt to break...

A bill is to be drafted which will give councils greater flexibility over how they design and implement a visitor levy.   The Visitor Levy (Scotland)...

MagicFest 2025 The 16th edition of MagicFest will take place this month with two world premieres and Kevin Quantum's own Christmas Show. Organiser and co-founder of...

Two data centres which will use the same energy as all the houses in Edinburgh and Glasgow twice over, are going through the planning...

The groundbreaking ceremony at the Dunard Centre, the first concert hall to be built in Edinburgh for a century, was held on Monday. The...

Three woman have been convicted in connection with child cruelty and assaults in the 1970s and 1980s at two homes run by the Sisters...

Pilton Equalities Project - minibuses vandalised Pilton Equalities Project (PEP) provides essential services for older and other vulnerable adults in North Edinburgh. The group supports...

Scotland's soft touch justice is the gift that keeps on giving as retailers brace for a festive surge to the shoplifting epidemic, it is...

HRH The Princess Royal is to be patron of the Saltire Appeal. Both civic and faith leaders united in a celebration of St Andrew's...

In December, these are dates to note in Edinburgh's history: 2nd In 1837, Joseph Bell FRCSE, a Scottish surgeon and lecturer at the medical school...

Former Scottish racing driver, Susie Wolff, has revealed she only had one black point during her driving test - and it was for speeding. Wolff,...

Each week the council's travel team issues its list of streets in the capital where roadworks are planned. There seem to be even more...

A 69-year-old man has been jailed for three years and nine months following an intelligence-led operation into online child sexual abuse and exploitation.  Paul Chalmers...

Following an incident on 6 October 2025 when a masked gang were filmed trying to cut a bike off a rack with an angle grinder in St Andrew Square, officers have made a...

Police have arrested and charged two men in connection with a drugs recovery worth over £1 million in West Lothian. Around 7.15am on Thursday, 27...

Children younger than 11 were among almost 2,000 youngsters searched by police in three months, with dozens found to be carrying weapons such as...