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Edinburgh Online Fashion Week: Psychomoda

Every day this week Scotsman.com will be streaming runway shows from Edinburgh Online Fashion Week, Scotland’s first exclusively digital fashion event. Covering high street to designer, boutique and...

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Flat owner taken to psychiatric hospital after deliberate fire destroys home

A WOMAN has been taken to a psychiatric hospital after her flat was deliberately set on fire.Emergency services raced to Blackford as the blaze spread to neighbouring 
properties.The 35-year-old woman...

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Marketing group’s ‘Incredinburgh’ campaign is ‘suicidal’ says council insider

EDINBURGH’S marketing body is today fighting for its life after it again defied city leaders over a “suicidal” campaign to promote the Capital, the News can reveal.Marketing Edinburgh, an arms-length...

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Morning briefing: Edinburgh start for Tour de France moves closer to reality

EDINBURGH’S bid to host the start of the Tour de France was today said to be close to being approved by race organisers in Paris.Brian Cookson, president of British Cycling, said he was optimistic...

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January blues for footie fans as derby date moves

AS post-Christmas traditions go, it’s up there with leftover turkey sandwiches and hitting the sales.But Hibs and Hearts fans hoping for their regular dose of holiday football are set to be left out in...

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Half of capital may have been victims of cyber crime

MORE than half of people in Edinburgh may have been targeted by online criminals, campaigners warned today.A new survey by the Get Safe Online organisation found that 51 per cent of people in the...

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Edinburgh husband’s heartbreak as love of his life is shot dead in botched US...

THE heartbroken husband of a woman shot dead in an American bar has told how the couple spoke on the phone about their plans for the future just hours before her death.Kellene Fallon, 44, who was known...

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Tories slam move for ‘SNP cronies’ on new Scottish Police Association board

The Conservatives have hit out at the SNP after several of the appointments to the new Scottish Police Association are SNP campaigners.• Four out of 12 board members are SNP members or Independence...

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John Gibson: Peanuts, it’s the job for a skivvy

WHAT she’s looking for is a skivvy, godammit. That’s the only word for it. You might prefer ‘‘slave.’’ It’s the Queen, no less, seeking somebody for her staff (a maid) and she’s paying sweeties.Begging...

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Alex Salmond questions police after filmmaker arrested during Donald Trump...

First Minister Alex Salmond is to question Grampian Police as to why a filmmaker was arrested while making a documentary about Donald Trump’s controversial golf course near Aberdeen.• Film shows...

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Leader: ‘Successful strategy vital for the Capital’

MANY people will read with alarm about the row over Marketing Edinburgh’s latest campaign to draw visitors to the Capital. Senior councillors and officials are unhappy about the word-play slogans...

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Ian Swanson: Nato vote shakes foundation of formerly united SNP front

A week is a long time in politics. Ian Swanson looks at how Alex Salmond went from being on top of the world to fighting a party crisis.Alex Salmond and his colleagues were on a high as they left Perth...

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Gina Davidson: Phenomenally bad advertising

THERE’S a huge billboard ad on the West Approach Road, which you can’t fail to notice when you’re heading into the city centre. In large purple letters it shouts at you to Have a Very Merry Tyne of...

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Eurocopter orders safety checks on all Super Pumas after gear box crack...

THE French aviation company which made the Super Puma which ditched off Shetland on Monday has ordered additional safety checks on all versions of the aircraft.• Failure of chopper on Monday was...

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Loganair to end flights from Dundee Airport

LOGANAIR is to end flights from its spiritual home of Dundee “with great regret” by axing services to Belfast and Birmingham from December due to lack of passengers.The move will also come as a major...

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Frank Boyle cartoon

Today...Boyling Point

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Edinburgh Online Fashion Week: Tea At Aunties

Every day this week Scotsman.com will be streaming runway shows from Edinburgh Online Fashion Week, Scotland’s first exclusively digital fashion event. Covering high street to designer, boutique and...

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Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne joins forces with Olympian Pete Reed in...

SCOTTISH businessman and Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne has backed a new campaign to raise awareness about lung cancer.He will be joined by Olympic rower Pete Reed to front the drive to urge people...

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Edinburgh’s Got Talent: It’s the final countdown

Barry Gordon asks: Have you got your tickets to see the cream of the Capital’s new talent?EDINBURGH really does have talent. That’s what the audience at the Festival Theatre will discover tomorrow...

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Liam Rudden: Pop-punk Les Mis rocks the Playhouse

ADMISSION time. I’d never heard of Green Day before the announcement that the musical version of their concept album American Idiot was to visit the Playhouse. It’s there all this week. Too old I...

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