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What’s On in Edinburgh this week
The festivals may be staggering through their last full week, but there's still plenty going on in Edinburgh - from summer fetes to afternoon...
Sunday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Storytelling: Scottish Superheroes. The Portrait Gallery is home to heroes and heroines - the original Scottish Superheroes. Come and enjoy some superhuman adventures with...
Five things you need to know today!
Friends of Easter Drylaw Park
Walking Football
Rockin for Tots grows up to be a charity
Festival Tip of the Day
Autumn grants
Do you live near, visit or travel through Easter...
Leith Walk By-Election – Susan Rae blogs
It’s time for “participatory budgeting” to move up a notch argues Green Candidate, SUSAN RAE.
I cannot ever imagine a time when participatory budgeting will...
MP questions use of Dover House
Dover House in London is the Scotland Office's base and has in the past held receptions for the Scottish Fashion Awards and the Scotch...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – The Man *****
Set on London’s famous Speakers' Corner, The Man is a powerful, satirical monologue which deconstructs the vast array of contradictions in our society. The...
Saturday in Edinburgh – Whats’ On Today
Greengage Arts: a hands-on craft workshop, inspired by nature. 1-4pm, Real Life Science Studio, John Hope Gateway, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Inverleith Row. £3 per person,...
Five things you need to know today!
National Galleries of Scotland Bill
TTIP protest
Fringe Tip of the Day
Dean Valley Regeneration
Dads Build a Bike project!
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Mary’s Meals – The Shed that Fed a Million Children
'We believe in the goodness of people...Mary's Meals is a series of lots of little acts of love' (Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow)
Many organisations start life at...
Edinburgh International Book Festival: 2015 Siobhan Dowd Trust Lecture
Matt Haig almost didn't get asked to deliver this lecture at all.
When Tony Bradman (Chairman) and Kate Powling (Director) of the Siobhan Dowd Trust started to...
Edinburgh international Book Festival – 20th August
Latest gallery of authors, with these ones attending the Book Festival at various times on the 20th August
Letter from Scotland
Every night I hear the curfew – after which all good Edinburgh citizens should be in bed. But the fireworks at the end of...
Friday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Run for Me - Dance for Me - Think of Me: a fun, action-packed weekend to celebrate the life of the late Louise Duncan,...
Five things you need to know today!
Parking in the city
Broomhouse Community Shop need a bookkeeper
There will be fireworks
Festival tip of the Day
Edinburgh to Helsinki
Since the spring of this year council officers...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 Review – Hardeep Singh Kohli **
Hardeep Singh Kohli’s show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is tagged ‘Big Mouth Strikes Again’. The blurb on the Fringe website states ‘The Fringe’s...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – REVIEW – Chris Betts – Social Animal ***
Chris Betts-Social Animal is an hour of insightful observations gained from years of working behind a bar. The Canadian comedian delivers a clever and...
Edinburgh to Helsinki direct from next year
Finnair is set to launch a seasonal service from Edinburgh to Helsinki in 2016, offering travellers faster connections to Finnair’s network of Asian destinations....
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – Le Haggis lean on Edinburgh Rugby’s Simon
Edinburgh folk are being invited to polish up their party pieces in a campaign to find new talent fit for a top Fringe cabaret...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – SANCTUARY
HEARTBREAK STORIES BEHIND SOLDIERS’ THANK-YOU NOTES
An actress has written a play about the impact of war on women – after receiving heart-wrenching letters from soldiers...
Thursday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Blackwell's Edinburgh Presents Writers at the Fringe: every Thursday throughout the Fringe, Blackwell's invites a selection of Scottish performers to give a taste of...
Seeing Visions and Hearing Voices: Richard Holloway at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Richard Holloway is 81 years old and looks about 60. Nevertheless, the author, ex-Episcopal Bishop of Edinburgh, former chairman of the Scottish Arts Council...
Just Festival 2015: Gypsy/Travellers – Has Time Run Out? and Moving Minds
'Everyone should be allowed to live according to their ethnicity'
Most of us probably agree with that statement; in a multicultural society we live alongside...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Adam Hess-Salmon ****
Adam Hess-Salmon offers his audience an hour of brilliant quick-witted observational humour mixed with embarrassing stories from an effeminate childhood.
He uses a list which he has...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – Tony Law – Frillemorphesis ****
Tony Law doesn’t abide by stand-up comedy rules. His is a show full of skilful, absurd riffs that leave you wondering how he does...
Pedal for Scotland 2015
The biggest cycling event takes place on 6 September when thousands of cyclists will cover the 50+ miles from Glasgow to Edinburgh. The more...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW Robin Ince “Reality Tunnels *****
Robin Ince, the self- styled ‘Renaissance Idiot’ returns to Edinburgh fringe with new one-off show “Reality Tunnels”. Ince is taking a break from his...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW — Dandy Darkly’s Trigger Happy *****
In 2013’s Gory Hole and 2014’s Pussy Panic, New York’s catty storyteller of terror, Dandy Darkly, racked up an awesome body count and an...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW: Every Brilliant Thing *****
A play about suicide attempts and depression could be fairly dark and sad but this is an hour spent in the company of a...
First Minister comes to Clovenstone
Gordon Macdonald MSP has welcomed the extension of the Scottish Government’s Attainment Fund to three primary schools in his Edinburgh Pentlands Constituency.
First Minister Nicola...
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