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The lights have been carefully draped on the Christmas tree on The Mound, but will not be switched on immediately. The festivities begin early in...

EXCLUSIVE Police Scotland Chief Constable Jo Farrell has landed taxpayers with an eye-watering £134,000 bill to help her buy a second home in Scotland, The...

The Granton Waterfront is a brownfield site where the £1.3 billion regeneration project has already started with the restoration of the Gas Holder, the...

There is a collection of around 5,000 items held in safe keeping at Murrayfield which chart the last 100 years of Scottish rugby history....

Four year old female cheetah, Domino, has come to live at Edinburgh Zoo. The animal was previously resident at the Zoo de Cerza in France....

Police are appealing for information to help trace a 15-year-old boy missing from Edinburgh. Ahmad Bader, was last seen in the Granton Medway area...

Constitution Street is currently closed at the junction with Queen Charlotte Street in connection with police incident. Numerous police vehicles, ambulances and a fire engines are...

After a long community campaign to retain a school in the area, Currie Community High School was opened in a closed doors ceremony without...

MP for Edinburgh South West, Dr Scott Arthur has been named Political Voice of the Year at a ceremony in London. Sarcoma UK held...

Remembrance events this weekend The main ceremony at the City Chambers on the Royal Mile will take place at 11.00 am, followed by a parade....

In Scotland drug driving claimed more than 100 lives in eight years, according to recent figures. Transport Scotland data shows drugs were a factor in...

Scotland is being swept along in the general retreat on climate change. Now that our rivers are being topped up again with new rain,...

Edinburgh Council may start running its own holiday hubs again after concerns raised over a reduced service. Until last spring, the council-run Braidburn holiday hub...

The planning applications lodged with the council's planning department this week are detailed on the list below. Any property owner seeking to build, improve or...

Council underpaid staff at Outdoor Centre Edinburgh Council's Governance committee meets today and will hear from the Corporate Director for Customer and Corporate Services, Dr...

Police are appealing for information to help trace a man missing from Surrey. Eugen Comanescu, 41, was last seen around 7.30pm on Monday, 3 November...

From 3pm today, Wednesday 5 November 2025 police in Edinburgh will be implementing Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994...

A programme that has created a legacy of confident swimmers across Scotland has reached a major milestone, celebrating ten years of transforming lives through...

The literary archive of Scotland’s former national poet Jackie Kay has been made available for research and public viewing for the first time, at...

Fireworks Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night, but the Firework Control Zones in Edinburgh remain in place until 9 November. The restrictions make it an...

They are the UK's largest leech, which grows up to 20cm long and uses three sets of saw-like jaws to help suck up to...

Wednesday is a Day of Action called by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) to support teachers who are employed on temporary...

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) is renewing its call for a national ban on the public sale of fireworks, one year after...

Solar-powered theatres double surgical capacity at major children’s hospital in Ukraine. A major installation of solar-powered surgical theatres in western Ukraine is enabling thousands more...

Almost 50,000 crimes went undetected by Police Scotland in just three months according to new figures. Data shows that between April and June this year...

The Edinburgh Award will be presented today Tonight Ali Bowden the former Chief Executive of The City of Literature Trust will be given the Loving...

Three people have been taken to hospital after a Lothian bus being driven on Calder Road collided with a telecommunications mast.  The crash took place...

Police have issued a further appeal to the public for information in relation to a serious crash in Edinburgh on Saturday, 25 October, 2025. The...

The Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA) has launched its manifesto ahead of the Scottish Parliamentary Election 2026. The STA is the largest member organisation for tourism...

A new all-electric bus service will begin on Wednesday taking passengers to the Lost Shore Surf Resort from the city centre in Edinburgh. The...