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A CAMPAIGN has been launched to honour Edinburgh-born Harry Lauder – legendary singer, comedian and vaudeville virtuoso – with an annual day of celebration. Sir Harry was born in Portobello, Edinburgh and...

Plans have been lodged for the demolition of a vacant Hearts Supporters' club to construct temporary housing for homeless people. Unum Partnership and FK100 have...

While people living in Edinburgh continue to be amazed that they are forced to live without the tram past the West End stop, the...

Waterloo Place – a major artery in Edinburgh's city centre – is set to be closed for around three months while a £3m sewer...

A community campaign has been launched to protest about a proposed 10-storey Leith hotel that locals say will "stick out like a carbuncle". The plans,...

The solar eclipse passed over Edinburgh around 7pm and hundreds of people were out at the viewing spots on Calton Hill and Arthur's Seat....

Edinburgh Council could approve a temporary ban on public art projects in Princes Street Gardens when it meets on Thursday. Council officers have proposed a...

A Livingston Korean War veteran returned to the national memorial he helped build to mark the 73rd anniversary of the end of the conflict. Adam...

Locals and members of The Causey campaign group hold a "sit oot" at the junction of West Crosscauseway and Buccleuch Street most weekends, but...

Emergency services, including a coastguard helicopter unit, were dispatched to Edinburgh’s Cramond Island on Tuesday after an elderly woman sustained injuries in a fall. The...

On Wednesday evening, the UK will see its most dramatic partial solar eclipse in around three decades, with more than 90% of the sun...

A rare red-footed falcon has been snapped just outside of Edinburgh in Aberlady by a local photographer. Photographer Mark Rielly captured the falcon which has...

With two by-elections coming up at the end of the month, the Edinburgh Greens are working on continuing their period of success in the...

Queen Margaret University (QMU), Edinburgh welcomed Ben Macpherson MSP, the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Minister for Innovation, Technology and Tertiary Education, to campus on Friday meeting staff supporting prospective...

The new baby pygmy hippo at Edinburgh Zoo now has a name. She is to be called Piper. Keepers picked the name after the new arrival was...

Tesco Bank is proposing to leave its Edinburgh HQ next year, and Edinburgh Napier University is reportedly looking at the site as a possible replacement for...

Edinburgh's Transport Convener is taking a grip of an active travel project in Edinburgh which has been dormant for at least a decade. Ten years...

Edinburgh has been ranked as the fourth best city in the world and the best in the UK for young people to live and...

It’s August, so Edinburgh is packed with six noisy festivals and twice as many people as in peace time.   There’s the official International Festival...

Following a meeting between the Deputy First Minister and the Edinburgh Council Leader at the site of the Princes Street blaze, there has been...

A split has emerged between the City of Edinburgh Council and The Scottish Government over funding to support the council and businesses in the capital following...

Staff at the National Galleries of Scotland will strike on Friday, according to members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCSU). Staff say that there...

The City of Edinburgh Council leader met with Deputy First Minister, Jenny Gilruth on Wednesday 5 August as a package of £5 million funding...

On Wednesday the Deputy First Minister, Jenny Gilruth, met with Edinburgh Council leader, Jane Meagher at 109 Princes Street, the site of the fire...

EDINBURGH Zoo has welcomed a pygmy hippo calf just hours after publicly announcing the mother's pregnancy the same day. Keepers at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Edinburgh...

The fire which caused extensive damage to the former Debenhams building on Princes Street has led to part of the street remaining closed even...

A unique artist's design for a Royal Bank of Scotland £20 note featuring the Forth Bridges that was never issued has fetched £750 at...

The Old Lady of Leven Street opens to the public after major restoration works. The curtain rises today on the newly levelled stage at Edinburgh...

A by-election is being held in the Southside/Newington ward on 3 September. The position on The City of Edinburgh Council has been created by former...

A by-election is being held in the Portobello/Craigmillar ward on 3 September. The position on the City of Edinburgh Council has been created by...