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Living Wage commitment by the Poppy Factory
Lady Haig's Poppy Factory is the latest organisation to become a Living Wage Employer.
The factory employs 41 Armed Forces veterans who make more than...
Buses on Leith Street will be diverted from 2 September
BUS CUSTOMERS URGED TO PREPARE FOR LEITH STREET CLOSURE
Lothian has announced changes to services as a result of the Leith Street closure during works...
Airport gives funding to community groups
Edinburgh Airport shows its commitment to helping local groups by sharing £40,000 of funding by way of its Community Board.
Twenty groups across Edinburgh, the...
Help Underbelly fundraise for The Brain Tumour Charity on 23 August
Underbelly is partnering with The Brain Tumour Charity for a raucous evening of live comedy.
The organisation remains at the forefront of the fight to defeat...
The Curries are coming!
by Neil Gunn
For two Dumfries pipers the excitement and anticipation of playing at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is keenly felt as they fine...
Clothes Aid looking for franchisees
The hunt is on for Edinburgh entrepreneurs who want to run a business which also helps charities.
The organisation Clothes Aid is looking for people...
Theft from Hibs shop – appeal for witnesses
Edinburgh police have issued an appeal for witnesses after what they describe as 'a high-value theft of merchandise' from the Hibs shop on Albion...
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Will Self and Richard Sennett – Draughtsmen Drafting
‘I’ve always wondered why I find suburbs sexy’
Although the novelist, academic and former bad boy of journalism, Will Self, claims now to like suburbs, he...
Alan Cumming gives the thumbs up to Ross Pavilion redesign
The outline design for the new Ross Pavilion in Princes Street Gardens has had the stamp of approval from one of Scotland's most successful...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Ballistic
Explosive one-man show based on real events comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
BALLISTIC By Alex Packer
Mini Mall Theatre presents Ballistic at Pleasance Courtyard August 2 - 28,...
Movin Melvin Brown gets on down with Edinburgh dancer
Rhythm & Blues legend Movin' Melvin Brown (72) and 17-year-old Edinburgh tap dancer Tamzin Burgess got together earlier to compare moves in the heart...
Raton Laveur
Phil and Lily have moved to Toronto from Australia to pursue Lily's dreams.
Phil, finding himself at loose ends, becomes obsessed with the nest of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Tony Burgess : Crimbo
Tony Burgess: Crimbo Christmas, 2003.
What a proper mad one.
Tragic? Tick
Messy? Tick
And then Tony had to adopt his 10 year old autistic nephew, without knowing much about real life himself.
After...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Arielle Dundas: Vulva Cupcake
A member of the liberal elite comes to the Fringe to pursue laughter, love, and politically correct baked goods with a lunchtime show at...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Sugar Baby
Wales’ leading new writing company, Dirty Protest, teams up with one of its leading writers, Alan Harris, at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – 30 Year Old Virgin
New York comedian Kevin James Doyle is coming to the 70th Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a show all about sex – or the complete lack of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Ayres of France, Graces of Scotland
Elspeth McVeigh, returns to the Edinburgh 2017 Fringe tomorrow for one day only to again delight her audiences with another unusual programme - this...
Get ready for Leith Street closure
Edinburgh St James is one of the biggest retail and mixed use developments ever built in the city centre and it is true that...
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 15 August 2017
The Airbus 400M "Atlas" flew past at the beginning of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo this evening - sadly not completely over the Castle...
Work begins at Saughton Park
Over the next twelve months the council will oversee the project to transform Saughton Park into something akin to its former glory and attract...
More 20mph zones in the capital from tomorrow
From tomorrow 16 August 2017, the extent of the 20mph zones across the city extends even further with the third phase covering north west...
Edinburgh companies front and centre at new conference
Two Edinburgh-based companies will headline a new conference that aims to bring together industry experts and academics from the worlds of food, nutrition and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – REVIEW – Show Up***
Peter Michael Marino (Desperately Seeking the Exit, Late with Lance!) turns the often vilified clichés of the solo show genre on their clichéd heads. ...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Clean Sheets ***
What do a soon-to-be disgraced politician and a troubled bellhop have in common? They are both trapped in a hotel elevator, between the fourteenth...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Mark Row
From zero experience of stand-up to the fringe in just a year... you're having a laugh!
Mark Row and The Free Festival Presents
A1: The Long Road...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – REVIEW The Establishment: Eton Mess ***
Side-splitting, stiff upper-lipped hilarity from energetic duo Dan Lees and Neil Frost. Two ultra-privileged British gents struggling to hold onto their whimsical world of...
Council appoint James to take charge of their culture venues
The City of Edinburgh Council’s cultural venues collective has appointed James Bruce as programme development manager. The position which is based at the Usher...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Movin’ Melvin Brown
Rhythm & Blues legend Movin' Melvin Brown is back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the world premiere of a show dedicated to Rock ’n’ Roll...
Council says they are doing better on keeping Edinburgh tidy
During the festival last year the number of complaints about waste on the streets, particularly in the city centre rose markedly.
Now the council says...
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