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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Scots Plus Cajun – Discover Bonnie Bayou
Mingle heartfelt Scottish songs with Cajun honky tonk and the result is what the Jennifer Ewan Band calls “Bonnie Bayou”.
It’s an acoustic pop sound finely honed on...
Edinburgh graduate secures senior role at ‘Scotland’s Best Five Star Hotel’
Megan Milliken joins Edinburgh’s The Chester Residence team as new operations manager
Five star luxury hotel, The Chester Residence, has welcomed new operations manager, Megan Milliken, to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Twonkey’s Christmas in the Jungle
2016 Malcolm Hardee Award-winner for Comic Originality – dare you enter the Twonkeyverse?
One of the Fringe’s most reliably unusual auteurs returns with a new adventure from...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – ALICE FRASER: EMPIRE
Alice Fraser returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand new hour of reliably silly, unpredictably meaningful, narratively unorthodox art-comedy.
Empire has played to five-star reviews at...
Vital sewer works about to begin
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Scottish Water will start upgrading the Victorian sewers in the city next month to keep the capital's waste water...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Forgive Us, Oh Father!
Forgive Us, Oh Father! is a brand new musical comedy about what it really means to be a man of God. Join us at...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – “PRÉVERT: PIANO & POETRY”
Original one-man show by a young French concert pianist
Come along to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, at Palmerston Place Church (10 Palmerston Place), from 14 to...
Fringe by the Sea 2017
Get down to the seaside and enjoy the coolest festival in Scotland!
The full programme for Fringe by the...
Edinburgh Beermat Challenge laid down by ScotlandShop
To celebrate the launch of their new store in Edinburgh, ScotlandShop have launched a beermat challenge, taking place in pubs across the capital.
20,000 beermats have been...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – SCHIZ
New Fringe psychological drama to explore schizophrenia and obsession, challenging preconceived ideas about mental illness
Moss Banks Productions presents: SCHIZ, new writing by Alexander Banks, an exciting psychological...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Penelopiad
Death, torture (and a few laughs): Atwood’s ‘The Penelopiad’ performed by all-female cast
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood - Produced by Maiden Voyagers
A five day...
Ross Pavilion – and the winner of the design competition is…
The winner of the design process to replace the Ross Bandstand was announced this morning in the Royal Overseas League, overlooking Princes Street Gardens.
And...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Tom Stade – I Swear at Gilded Balloon
Who is Tom Stade - are we any closer to the real Tom now that we have met him? Will the real Tom Stade stand...
CCTV images issued in plea for information about assault
Police Scotland have released images of a group of three men they wish to trace in connection with a serious assault in the city...
Lothians MSP says ‘Care homes must do better’
The Scottish Conservatives obtained figures relating to the ratings given by the Care Inspectorate and their verdict is that hundreds of them must improve.
They...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – THE DEATH HILARIOUS: THE SCUM ALWAYS RISES
Welsh, working-class firebrands The Death Hilarious bring their debut hour to the Edinburgh Fringe. The Scum Always Rises houses a parade of otherworldly souls as daft...
A&E on target in June
June performance at 95.5%.
The Scottish Government tell us that performance across Scotland’s accident and emergency departments was just above the 95% target during June.
ISD...
Our guide to Food at the 2017 Festival
The Food Lowdown during August
You may have missed the Assembly Food Festival at the end of July but now we’re into August, in Edinburgh...
Preview – Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Five to look out for
Mies Julie by Yael Farber
Assembly Rooms | 54 George Street | EH2 2LR | 3- 27 August 2017 14:30
A frenetic, impulsive, energetic and brave production...
Five things you need to know today
Lord Provost's Burns Supper
Tattoo
Grassmarket Ambassadors
Friends at the End meeting
Edinburgh International Festival art exhibition
The Lord Provost will be holding a...
New service to help people in North Edinburgh and Leith into work
Port of Leith Housing Association (PoLHA) has set up a new employability service, Community Works, which will support people over the age of 16...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – For the School Colour
Prolific children’s author, conservationist and believer in fairies, Angela Brazil was a complicated and determined woman with a tendency to write her personal life...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – MISERABLY HAPPY
Tiernan Douieb transports his carefully-cultivated echo chamber to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, bringing with it a new hour of satirical gags and nonsense musings –...
Grassmarket ambassadors are back
In the Grassmarket they are bringing back their ambassadors for the second year running. They will be able to guide the public and answer...
Songs of Praise to be recorded in Edinburgh this Friday
At Stockbridge Church on Friday 4 August they will be recording BBC One's Songs of Praise from 7pm to 10pm.
Admission is free and the...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – public art installation
A public art installation created by Edinburgh secondary school pupils is now open at Old College Quad
The Edinburgh International Festival unveiled Blueprint for the...
A Splash of Tartan for the 68th Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Brigadier David Allfrey, The Chief Executive and Producer of The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, welcomed the press to the Royal Gallery this morning. There...
Letter from Scotland
Edinburgh was an unlikely place for the largest arts festival in the world to begin, 70 years ago. Yet the project has proved an...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Lucy Hopkins Powerful Women are About
Welcome to a vibrational revolution of being, channelled by a goddess.
Part electro-ritual, part theremin-experiment, part light-fantastic.
Lucy Hopkins embodies the Fringe’s most relentlessly in-touch-with-herself
spirit guide...
Sam Garlepp – Edinburgh Fringe
After years selling out shows in Australia’s biggest festivals, Sam Garlepp is probably still a comedian you haven't heard of. Until now.
Sam is set...
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