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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Gone Native with Nicholson and Gore****
Kevin Gore and Bobby Nicholson take the stage in the basement of The Royal Oak at 6.30 every evening. This is not just a show...
Tram inquiry continues to gather evidence
The Rt Hon the Lord Hardie who chairs the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry has announced that he inquiry has begun to interview members of the...
TK Maxx open city centre store
TK Maxx opened a new city centre store on South St David Street last week with an opening ceremony conducted by the capital's Lord...
Underbelly’s Circus Hub closes tomorrow – catch it while you can!
The big tents on The Meadows have some wonderful circus acts to entertain you but Underbelly’s Circus Hub draws to a close tomorrow Monday, 22 August .
In...
Stage award for Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
We met some of the cast of Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally and the writer and director on Friday and have just heard...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Michelle Wolf – So Brave ***1/2
American Fringe debutant Michelle Wolf certainly leaves an impression in her solo show at the Pleasance with a busy repertoire of anecdotes and jokes...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 Review: Andrew Ryan – Ruined ****
Down in the basement of the Assembly Studios is Andrew Ryan. The Irish comedian returns to Edinburgh to play his first Festival outside the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: Don’t Push The Button (The Techtonics) *****
Photo credit: Joe Martinez
I have a confession to make. I have seen Don’t Push the Button two and a half times. The first time...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – Morgan & West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show...
Time-travelling Victorian magic duo Morgan & West return to unload another boxful of bafflement and impossibility. Witness a mountain of mysterious magic, a hatful of hyper-reality,...
Five things you need to know today
MSP fighting Bank of Scotland Branch closure
Enjoy the Barra MacNeils tomorrow!
Live classical music for babies
Join the Food Tasting panel at...
Edinburgh MSP calls for answers from Bank of Scotland on branch closure
Gordon Macdonald MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands led a delegation of local councillors, members of Currie Community Council and representatives of the local business community...
Forest Fringe 2016
Forest Fringe is an artist-led organisation making space for risk and experimentation. Now in their tenth year, they’re celebrating with a
best of retrospective.
Originally based at the...
Edinburgh International Festival Review: Measure for Measure ****
From the offset, it’s evident that Declan Donnellan’s Measure for Measure is going to be bold and modern.
There is no elaborate set to establish...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW : History History History
History History History is a show about the complicated and knotty narratives of history, told through a loose “translation” of a 1956 Hungarian Football Comedy.Deborah Pearson is...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – Grant Stott’s Tales from Behind the Mic ****
This is a real Edinburgh gem.
We are used to hearing his warm tones on the radio, behind the mic at a charity event or on...
Five Edinburgh Festival Fringe Questions for… McCleary & Blair
Ross McCleary and Andrew Blair have noticed something. People love pandas, but they don't care for poetry. Maybe if people could see poetry from...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – My Leonard Cohen
Few bodies of musical work rouse, seduce and are of such solace as that of the great Leonard Cohen. Stewart D’Arrietta’s musical interpretations are gutsy and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – Deliciously Stella ***
Sold out and packed, Bella Younger took her character Deliciously Stella to the Pleasance Courtyard to give the punters a tongue-in-cheek lecture on Smug...
Council Leader will not seek re-election next May
Councillor Andrew Burns, leader of the council's Labour group, and Council Leader since 2012, has confirmed that he will be stepping down from political...
Lothian Buses invest in new tour fleet
Lothian Buses has made a major investment of £6.5m in a fleet of new buses for Edinburgh Bus Tours. The open deck buses have...
Law firm announce six promotions
Thorntons the Scottish law firm with its roots in Dundee has promoted six employees in a period of investment.
Two senior solicitors have risen to...
Five things you need to know today
Elsie Inglis to be commemorated in Edinburgh
First Minister welcomes EU nationals at Q & A in Edinburgh
Oysters and champagne on the Fringe
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW : Adam Kay – Fingering A Minor on the...
Former Amateur Transplants front man Adam Kay returns to celebrate a decade at the Edinburgh Fringe with his eye-watering, audible-gasping and bum-clenching set of pun-fest...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Worbey and Farrell – Rhapsody*****
Raw talent might be sufficient in a Fringe act, but even with core ability in the first place, you have to practice hard to make anything out of...
Five things you need to know today Edinburgh!
Today at the Edinburgh Interational Book Festival
One More Time with Feeling coming to Edinburgh in September
The Show must go on!
Therapy...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Ali Smith*****
Chaired by the nation’s makar, the enthusiastic Jackie Kay, Ali Smith took to the stage on Saturday to discuss her new and exciting work,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – The Sister****
This is strong stuff for a Tuesday morning at 10am, but it was gripping, and deserved more than 30 people in the audience. It...
Have a coffee morning for Macmillan – it’s a piece of cake
Hosting your own coffee morning can be a piece of cake, at least according to best friends Ava, Annie and Elizabeth.
Ava Green, 4, Annie...
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Iain Macwhirter
'A tsunami is the result of an earthquake; Scotland's earthquake was the independence referendum campaign'
According to chair Magnus Linklater, Iain Macwhirter is 'one of the best...
Girlguiding Scotland launch project – and they expect action!
The latest project form Girlguiding Scotland aimed at encouraging girls and young women to take action on issues they care about has support from...
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