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Scottish Government promises continued support for Made in Scotland showcase
Made in Scotland, a curated showcase which forms part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe, has been supported by £4.3m of funding from The Scottish Government...
2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival – 15th August, a.m.
It's that time of year again when the ER's photographer sets up camp in Charlotte Square gardens for a few days to bring some...
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Edinburgh's Turkish Baths
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Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – We Live By The Sea
Theatre (music, multimedia)
Giving A Voice To Girls With Autism
When Ryan moves from the city to Katie's coastal town, they make a connection that will...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW : Trash Test Dummies *****
How much fun do you have at your work? In the Trash Test Dummies, you have three Australian performers who have the most genuine passion...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 Review – Love Me Tinder ****
With more and more people turning to the Internet to find a date, there’s a happy love story for (almost) every uninvited photo of personal...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs 2 :...
It might be worth pointing out that I am not 5 years old. I was born in the nineties, before Pokémon Go, iPads, and Oyster...
Attempted robbery at Trinity newsagents now being treated as attempted murder
Following a witness appeal for an attempted robbery in the Trinity area, police are now treating this incident as attempted murder.
At around 5.20pm on...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016: Dame Nature – The Magnificent Bearded Lady.
The Follies Of Unfashionable Follicles
Theatre (comedy, new writing)
Tragi-comic, pathos heart-string tuggers, the aptly named Havoc Theatre, surely tempt thespian fate by bringing their foliated...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – AcaDemic: Cambridge A Capella On Tour ft. Fitz...
In Greek mythology, Sirens were beautiful yet dangerous creatures who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW : Marcus Brigstocke – Why The Long Face? ****
The frankness, honesty, humour and sarcasm of Marcus Brigstocke unfolded over the course of sixty thought provoking minutes, when the critically acclaimed comedian took us on...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Perhaps Hope
Rockie and Vincent may look like ordinary Australian tourists, but when they took their shoes off and climbed up beside the famous Greyfriars Bobby onlookers...
sports coach UK launches Everyday Heroes
Triathlon coach Penny Rother from Edinburgh is a passionate advocate of coaching and a champion of women’s sport and fitness.
Her own story is a...
The Edinburgh Reporter chats to John Donnelly CEO of Marketing Edinburgh
"This city doesn't just sell itself you know."
You might expect the man who does exactly that, sells Edinburgh to the world, would have to...
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The Edinburgh International Book Festival starts today
Flit at Edinburgh International Festival
Moderator to preach at St Mary's
Young Ambassadors off on a...
HERBERT – the answer to all our public transport woes?
by our roving reporter Garth Bryans.
Hendrick’s have taken on the challenge of addressing the poor standards and etiquette on public transport.
After years of tireless...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Birthday Girls: Sh!t Hot Party Legends ****
You walk into a venue encased in a cacophony of noise with three young females bouncing around with a bevvy in their hands across the...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Nina Conti – In Your Face ****
The magic of Nina Conti and that cheeky, potty-mouthed rascal of a Monkey sidekick of hers, had the 750-strong audience packed inside the Pleasance...
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016 REVIEW : La Clique Encore***
La Clique Encore has been a firm favorite amongst Fringe go-ers for over a decade now. Housed in The Famous Spiegeltent at St Andrew Square, the...
Letter from Scotland
I returned from Scout Camp in the hills of Perthshire to find my home city invaded by milling crowds of festival goers. There are...
PBH’s Free Fringe: Out on the World****
'If you went down the muddy track to the loo in the night, you always met the Bad Cow...'
Not many of us have to...
Edinburgh’s pandas celebrate their birthdays this month
Both of our pandas celebrate their birthdays this month. Yang Guang and Tian Tian will both be 13 years old.
Yang Guang has his birthday on 14...
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Harry Benson at Holyrood
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Harry Benson returns home to Scotland with a retrospective exhibition
The latest free exhibition at the Scottish Parliament is a collection of Harry Benson's photographs taken in America over the last 50 years.
The Edinburgh...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Iain Stirling: Onwards
Comedy (stand-up)
Iain Stirling – Onwards!
Scotland’s very own 'Tam Fatale', Iain Stirling, is reluctantly growing up in to his late twenties with a string (or...
Edinburgh International Festival – Godspeed You! Black Emperor*****
Setting a desolate Western scene with their raw introduction, Godspeed You! Black Emperor played to a diverse audience last night. With strings, guitars, drums...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: BLUSH****
At Underbelly's Cowgate venue, BLUSH is another play on this year's Fringe that incorporates glitchy sound design, a stripped-down setting, actors taking on multiple...
Five Edinburgh Festival Fringe Questions for… Rachel Bridge
Rachel Bridge is performing her one-woman show Ambition at the Gilded Balloon until 29th August. Her sixth book, Ambition: why it’s good to want...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Carl Donnelly: Bad Man Tings
Comedy (stand-up)
The Festival Fringe was ever the place to immerse one’s self in cathartic existentialism.
If you happen to want to spend a fortune and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Joe Derosa: Zero Forward Progress
Comedy (stand-up)
Never one to get over himself, US stand-up, actor and writer Joe Derosa, gets over here instead and most likely very over-heated given...
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