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Jet2 flying more planes from Edinburgh next winter than ever before
Jet2 is to fly to Fuerteventura and Turin for the first time and will have over 135,000 seats available for booking this winter from...
Filming wraps on Churchill starring Brian Cox
Salon Pictures today announced the end of production on the highly anticipated new feature film CHURCHILL, which follows the eponymous icon in the days...
Musselburgh Racecourse celebrates 200th anniversary with royal visit
Her Majesty the Queen will visit Musselburgh Racecourse on 8 July to help them celebrate 200 years of horse racing there.
The Bi-Centenary Raceday will...
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Edinburgh South MP resigns Shadow Cabinet post
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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Whisky Galore ****
Whisky Galore - it's pure, dead Brigadoon, so it is!
This is a perfect end to the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival. Gillies MacKinnon...
EIFF 2016 is over – time for thanks
With the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival now almost over, organisers have paid
tribute to the funders, partners and supporters who have made this year’s milestone...
Royal Highland Show 2016 attracts 187,000 visitors
The Royal Highland Show over the last four days attracted 187,000 visitors through the gates - with Friday playing host to 47,990 exhibitors, farmers,...
Lib Dems ready themselves for next election
In the wake of Thursday's EU Referendum vote to leave Europe, and a night of the long knives which has now become the morning...
Ian Murray steps down as Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
There is only one Labour MP in Scotland, Ian Murray who represents Edinburgh South, and he was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 27th JUNE 2016
Picturehouses Toddler Time: exclusive short screenings for pre-school children and their parents and carers. Today: Timmy Time: Seaside Rescue and Other Adventures . It’s...
LeithLate16 launched with rock ‘n roll
LeithLate 16 launched its jam-packed programme of art events with a launch party providing the locals of Leith with top notch Scottish talent on Friday...
Sir Elton John – Meadowbank Sports Centre 25 June 2016 *****
He plays over 100 concerts a year. He has made 32 albums and has sold around 300 million records.
He has a knighthood - and a...
First Minister on the first steps to independence after EU Referendum
The First Minister the Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon appeared on the steps of Bute House just after 11.30 am this morning to explain...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Away ***
Sweet, offbeat film from director David Blair which throws together two unlikely and very different characters. There are moving performances by desperate Joseph (Timothy Spall) and...
In or Out – Edinburgh Youngsters Show Us What It’s All About
As the results for the EU referendum were being revealed children in Edinburgh show us what it’s all about with a giant Hokey Cokey sung...
At the Royal Highland Show – Seafood in Schools spreading the word
Chloe Porteous (17), Nick Duffy (16) and Paul Woodcock (16) all from Glenrothes Fife learned about fish and shellfish at the Royal Highland Show yesterday.
They...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 The Library Suicides (Y Llyfrgell)****
An unusual, entirely original story, The Library Suicides kept me guessing till the end.
In Welsh with English subtitles and based on Fflur Dafydd's novel,...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 The Childhood of a Leader *
The biggest disappointment of this reviewer's festival, The Childhood of a Leader held great promise - musical score by Scott Walker, an examination...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Brakes ***
Mercedes Grower's Brakes is a montage of the ends and beginnings of a set of diverse relationships. She herself plays Layla who becomes pregnant by Noel Fielding's...
The Boy with Tape on his Face at Gilded Balloon Comedy in July
Silence will be golden for comedy audiences in Edinburgh at the beginning of July. The Boy With Tape on His Face, aka Sam Wills,...
Five things you need to know today
Harness Racing at Musselburgh
Elton John at Meadowbank
Outdoor Afternoon Tea at the G&V
Britannia welcomes 5 millionth visitor
Colinton Community Council issue warning to residents
Today there is...
#ScotLitFest launches the Virtual Festival
#ScotLitFest kicked off with a launch party to celebrate this first time festival, a virtual festival no less, enthusing literary Edinburgh before their crowded...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 The White King ***
Alex Helfrecht & Jorg Tittel's opening scene presents an idyllic view of what could be any family relaxing by any beautiful river but we soon...
To Brexit, from an EU immigrant
I always knew you were quite prone
To go off and do things on your own,
But your leave campaign lied,
Your ref had my hands tied,
And...
Royal Highland Show 2016 – M&S winners
Farmers from across Scotland have been announced as this year’s winners of the prestigious M&S ‘Farming for the Future’ awards, which took place at...
EU referendum – Greens say Edinburgh City Deal now in doubt
A multi-billion pound programme of investment in the economy of Edinburgh and surrounding region hangs in the balance after the UK narrowly voted to...
EU – What does Article 50 say?
The UK has now voted to leave the EU and Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon comes into play. So what does it...
EU Referendum – Scottish political comment
The result of the EU Referendum has been announced, and while the Prime Minister waited till 8.15 am when he tendered his resignation, comments began filtering in...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Under the Sun (V luchakh solna)***
Disturbing documentary of life in North Korea as illustrated by following an 'ordinary' family in Pyongyang for one year.
The North Korean authorities carefully scripted...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016 Saint Amour ***
Deliciously naughty, mad-cap wine tour and road trip taken by father (Gerard Depardieu) and son (Benoit Poelvoorde) farmers in order to try and bond...
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