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Edinburgh Trams help out with Pedal for Scotland
If you are taking part in this year's Pedal for Scotland then part of the problem is not the cycle itself, but getting to...
Rugby – Stewarts Melville v Edinburgh Accies, The ‘Gavin Calder Memorial Match’
Accies win poignant opener at Inverleith.
After the rigours of the various Festivals taking place in Edinburgh throughout August, it was a welcome return to...
Council back down on Leith Registrar closure
After starting a petition to stop the possible closure of Leith Registrars Office on Wednesday, Edinburgh North and Leith MP Deidre Brock announced good...
Cake not Climate Change
Campaigners invite you to eat cake in a bid to tackle climate change, with a ‘Cake not Climate Change’ event at the Ostara Cafe...
The Queensferry Crossing opens today
Traffic will begin to use The Queensferry Crossing this morning marking the end of a momentous journey.
The project may be about 10 weeks late...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Confabulation***
Every act of remembering is an act of storytelling. So, here's mine. It starts with a spotty teenager at a Motorhead gig and ends...
The Queensferry Crossing – almost ready for traffic!
Early this morning Keith Brown MSP Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Jobs and Fair Work joined The Edinburgh Reporter on the approach road to the...
Trams will cause disruption – but they will be worth it
When the tram line is extended down Leith Walk, it will mean closing the street to three lanes of traffic for a period of...
Virgin Money confirms sponsorship of Festival Fireworks for next three years
Virgin Money Renews Headline Sponsorship of the World’s Favourite Fireworks Concert as 70th Anniversary International Festival draws to a Spectacular Close
On Monday night the...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – Virgin Money Fireworks
A selection of images captured from the press 'bit of grass around the flower bed' area, which brought the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival to...
Former councillors to give evidence at Tram Enquiry
The first witnesses when the Tram Enquiry begins again next week will all be former councillors, except for one : Iain Whyte the current...
2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 13
....or, won't be long before it is, just to start all over again for next year.
Bonhams getting ready for The Scottish Art Sale in October
The Hour Glass by one of the leading painters of the Glasgow School, George Henry, is among the top lots at Bonhams Scottish Art...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Councillor Joanna Mowat
Joanna Mowat is the Conservative councillor for the City Centre Ward. At Thursday's council meeting the council adopted the coalition plan for the next...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Councillor Maureen Child
Edinburgh councillor Maureen Child represents the Portobello/Craigmillar Ward and here she writes for us her regular update on all the news in her part...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Confabulation!
Edinburgh Fringe 2017–Pleasance
Courtyard (Venue 33), 60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ, 24-28 at 1.40pm (1hr) Tickets £7 - £12/concessions
£8-£11 Recommended 12+ (restriction).
Warning - Contains Strong Language
Confabulation! at...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 : The Thinking Drinkers****
The Thinking Drinkers
Underbelly Ermintrude |2035
THE THINKING Drinkers have been playing to sell out audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe over August.
There is a slight incentive...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Jo Caulfield Older. Wiser. Smarter. Meaner.
Well, you will certainly feel smarter by the time you leave The Stand after Caulfield's show. She shares with her audience the benefit of...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – Puccini’s ‘La Boheme’
Opera’s greatest, most heartbreaking love story. La bohème is a sumptuous, visually magnificent new production direct from the Teatro Regio, Turin – the opera...
2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 13
Briefest of brief visits to the EIBF as 'La Boheme' was on the call list. Unfortunately, intended target of the day, Jim Al-Khalili, fell...
Cyprus Avenue wins the James Tait Prize for Drama
Tragicomic take on sectarian divide wins top drama prize
A play that explores the extremes of sectarianism has scooped one of the UK’s most distinguished...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Four Go Off On One! A Jolly Good Romp...
FOUR GO OFF ON ONE! A Jolly Good Romp Through Childhood
16:30, 2nd-27th August (not 15th), Gilded Balloon Teviot
Tickets here
After sell-out crowds and a clutch...
Zebbie dog walks from Edinburgh to Oxford: Walking for Jay
Zebbie, a 9 year old Labrador, and his owner Katrina are walking from Edinburgh to Oxford to raise awareness of a little known cancer called...
Police ask for assistance in tracing man missing from Corstorphine
Police in Edinburgh are appealing for the public's help to trace a man reported missing in the Corstorphine area.
Norman Skivington was last seen leaving...
2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 10
Another assemblage of authors - some more willing than others. Take a bow Laura Albert - gave up a few minutes of their precious time...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW Alexei Sayle****
And so on to the Underbelly's Cow Barn where "the godfather of alternative comedy", as the impish London-based Scouser is billed, vented his pot-bellied...
Contact the Elderly do the Fringe
Contact the Elderly have been taking some older people to Fringe shows thanks to a donation of Edinburgh Festival Fringe vouchers.
The charity received £1800...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Confabulation!
Confabulation! at EdFringe– new comedy theatre show exploring memory by writer and performer Eamonn Fleming.
Experienced actor-turned writer, storyteller and performer Eamonn Fleming is hitting...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Shappi Khorsandi: Mistress and Misfit
SHAPPI
KHORSANDI
‘MISTRESS AND MISFIT’
Assembly George Square
Studios (Studio 3), 3rd – 27th August (not 14th)
at 6.40pm
Shappi Khorsandi presents England's unsung heroine, Emma, Lady Hamilton. For too many...
Edinburgh Fringe: Jayde Adams****
Jayde AdamsPleasance Beneath2135 hrsJAYDE Adams describes herself as a "difficult woman" and I doubt there are many people who would dare argue with her.A...
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