Councillors are debating the final plan for introduction of the tourist tax in Edinburgh this morning amid calls to raise the ...

Edinburgh City Council will not know whether National Insurance costs increases will be met by the Scottish or UK Government ...

Tourist tax – first meeting today The first of two meetings to agree the way in which the tourist tax will be ingathered and ...

Police in Edinburgh are appealing for information to help trace a missing family.   Bahara Denisa Baci, a 13-year-old girl, ...

A future for Gorgie City Farm has been secured with the agreement of a 25-year lease by the city council. The decision will ...

Two-time Grand Slam finalist and Aussie Open second seed Alexander Zverev heaped praise on Scottish opponent Jacob Fearnley after reaching the last 16 with a straight sets win in Melbourne. “Jacob is ...

The Scottish Government is currently seeking “economic growth” but at the same time it is cutting funding for universities and colleges. The strategy has been tried for the last ten years and has not ...

Charity The Junction helps to support young people aged 12 to 21 with their wellbeing and health. Since it was set up on 17 January 2005 it has helped more than 2,800 young people in north east ...

On Friday the Tourist Tax or Transient Visitor Levy comes under the spotlight when the first of two meetings will be held to finalise the council’s plans for collecting and also spending the proposed ...

The alignment of the planets this month has been discussed at length, but nowhere more lyrically than by the Scottish Poetry Library where poets have gathered their thoughts on the celestial ...

A man has been jailed in connection with an attempted robbery in Edinburgh and a robbery in Glasgow that happened in February 2024. Issa Mohamed, 30, was sentenced to four years and eight months at ...

A public planning meeting was thrown into disarray after the webcast system crashed halfway through an item this week. East Lothian councillors were nearly an hour into the meeting when the connection ...