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Fringe 2026 – Pleasance acts in the spotlight at Opening Gala
The Pleasance Opening Gala highlighted the artists who are performing shows in one of the venues - at Pleasance Courtyard, Pleasance Dome or Pleasance...
Fringe 2026 – All Styles Street Battle
A special collaboration took place on Saturday between Dance Base, Scotland’s National Centre for Dance and Belgium’s Detours Festival, a world-leading urban arts festival.
All...
Handing over the mic at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards
As she celebrates another year leading the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, Nica Burns, CBE, announced at the annual Movers and Shakers lunch in Edinburgh that...
Friends aiming to create a community space at Starbank House
The Friends of Starbank Park, an organisation which has been running since 2013, has begun a conversation about taking over Starbank House in the...
Review – Opening concert at Usher Hall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The official opening of the Edinburgh International Festival took place on Saturday evening.
The opening concert featured the symphony in 12 parts by Wynton...
Greens predict they will run Edinburgh council after next May’s elections
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...
Fringe review 2026 – Furniture Boys ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I turned up a few minutes early for Furniture Boys and, with no one there, picked my seat in the middle of the vacant...
EIF Review – A Trial – at The Lyceum ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play ‘An Enemy of the People’ deals with the scandal of an expose of water pollution resulting in the exile of...
Fringe 2026 – The Edinburgh Reporter choices for today
This is your daily guide to the biggest arts festival in the world, as Edinburgh’s Festival Fringe moves into its first full weekend.
Saturday’s choices...
Victory for Scots earns World Cup qualification place
Scotland's cricketers will go into Sunday's cricket world league division two match, with UAE in Dundee, secure in the knowledge that they have reached...
Fringe 2026 – Giraffe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Giraffe" is a semi-autobiographical comedy written by and starring Abigail Weinstock, a former Funny Women semi-finalist, that pokes its long, ruminating neck around the...
Minister visits QMU as Clearing opens opportunities for prospective students
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...
Baby pygmy hippo now named at Edinburgh Zoo
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...
Fire in Easter Dalmeny – people living nearby asked to keep windows and doors...
A large fire broke out just after 7.30am in Dalmeny near South Queensferry which The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said has now been...
Fringe 2026 – the cast of Mythos: Ragnarok – unleashed!
The Norse gods descended on Edinburgh as the cast of Mythos: Ragnarök unleashed epic wrestling poses, battle-ready stances and larger-than-life characters upon Cockburn Street's mighty stairway.
Following...
Council approach Scottish Government for support to make the Powderhall Link happen
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...
Fringe 2026 – today’s picks from Mhairi Black to Graham Norton
Here is your daily guide to the biggest arts festival in the world, as Edinburgh’s Festival Fringe gets fully underway on Friday 7 August.
The...
Letter from Scotland
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...
Council’s SNP group leader criticises council leader for her “petty party politics”
Following a meeting between the Deputy First Minister and the Edinburgh Council Leader at the site of the Princes Street blaze, there has been...
Close but no cigar for Fearnley against world No 16
Jacob Fearnley will today be reflecting on another narrow defeat against one of the tennis world's elite.
Bidding for a place in the last 32...
Free is not rubbish: can the Free Fringe keep the festival open to everyone?
As the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe get under way, familiar arguments are already resurfacing.
Many residents will complain that the city has been overwhelmed,...
New branch manager at city firm
St Andrews Timber & Building Supplies has appointed Jamie Kerr as the new branch manager of its Edinburgh headquarters.
Mr Kerr (pictured) brings three decades...
East cricketers to receive Hall of Fame honours
Three former Scotland players who starred for their clubs in East cricket will be inducted into Cricket Scotland’s Hall of Fame at ceremonies in...
Deaf Festival 2026 – I am Not Broken, I am Not Something to be...
The fifth annual Edinburgh Deaf Festival – run in collaboration with the Fringe – gets started this weekend.
A celebration of deaf culture, language and...
Fringe 2026 – when science and big business conquer death who gets left behind?
Lab grown hearts and livers, nanotech and AI-curated stress-free lifestyles – big business has harnessed the power of science and medicine to conquer death.
Lifelong,...
Princes Street fire – how will the monies offered by the government be used?
The City of Edinburgh Council leader met with Deputy First Minister, Jenny Gilruth on Wednesday 5 August as a package of £5 million funding...
Changes to bus diversions on Princes Street
Lothian Business have today altered the routes of services 15, 33, 34, Lothian Country service 43 and East Coast services 106 and X6.
From...
Princes Street fire – council leader says that no response from the First Minister...
On Wednesday the Deputy First Minister, Jenny Gilruth, met with Edinburgh Council leader, Jane Meagher at 109 Princes Street, the site of the fire...
Jacob into round two in Montreal – heading for top 100
Jacob Fearnley is into the second round of the Montreal Masters tennis tournament where he will meet world No 17 Jacob Mensik, 20, ...
Exam results in Edinburgh have improved on last year
The City of Edinburgh Council confirmed today that exam results in Edinburgh have improved on last year according to almost all key measures.
More than...
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