Alex Salmond accused of hijacking Olympic celebration
ALEX Salmond was today accused of hijacking the victory parade honouring our Olympic heroes after diverting it to Glasgow in a bid to promote the Commonwealth Games.Sports stars and politicians have...
View ArticleCouncillor returns to cabinet just weeks after top job exit
IN three short months her political career has seen more ups and downs than a bush kangaroo in the Australian outback.But now Councillor Lisa Beattie has bounced back into a senior role at Midlothian...
View ArticleMore seats for Festival trains
SCOTRAIL is to lay on thousands of extra seats on services to and from Edinburgh over the next two weekends after complaints of overcrowding.An extra 14,000 seats will be laid on Glasgow, Dundee and...
View ArticleTriple trouble at school as three sets of siblings start P1
TEACHERS at one city primary school are used to double vision but now they’re preparing for triple trouble ahead.No less than three sets of twins turned up for their first day of school at Duddingston...
View ArticleArmed robber is jailed for 4 years
A HEARTBROKEN mum told today how her daughter’s life had spiralled out of control, as she was jailed for armed robbery.Megan Preston and co-accused Steven McGregor used a fake gun to target a dozen...
View ArticleLeader: ‘The event has been hijacked by politicians’
For two glorious weeks the Olympic Games made us all forget about the real world. The only things that mattered were determination, hard work, talent and guts. We cheered GB gold medallists like our...
View ArticleGraham Birse: Hurdles ahead for city economy
EDINBURGH can help lead Scottish recovery but we must apply the same focus as our Olympic heroe, says Graham Birse.The performance of our Olympians over the past fortnight has been nothing less than...
View ArticleGina Davidson: Hoy can Glasgow win over Capital?
A FEW months ago this newspaper did a rather unusual, and to my mind, extremely amusing thing. It wrote a song and produced a video in support of the city’s two Scottish Premier League football teams...
View ArticleCaption Competition 16/08: Win a bottle of Whyte and Mackay
What’s Prince William saying? The caption of the week will receive a bottle of Whyte & Mackay, while the yearly winner will receive a 30-year-old bottle of Whyte & Mackay, but you must be aged...
View ArticleJohn Gibson: Mair hair where that came from
HAIR today, gone tomorrow. Hair’s tae us, wha’s like us and all that twaddle. Everything’s turned hairy all of a sudden, has it not?Naomi Campbell would appear to be losing a strand or three around her...
View ArticleFrank Boyle cartoon: 16/08/2012
Today...Boyling PointFollow Frank Boyle on Twitter at {http://www.twitter.com/boylecartoon|@boylecartoon|Link to Twitter}.• Frank’s latest book Boyling Point 2 is available for £8.99 with free postage...
View ArticleLiam Rudden: The sauna is just one venue too far, thanks
THE problem with show descriptions in the Fringe programme is that they are often so vague that you never quite know what to expect. The reason, of course, is that many of them are submitted long...
View ArticleScotland bucks UK trend as higher education admissions rise
Scotland is the only part of the UK that has seen a rise in university and college admissions.• 35,781 pupils have been accepted to Scottish institutions to date• Applications in rest of the UK slump...
View ArticleEdinburgh Festival Fringe: Top music shows so far
Our reviewers’ pick of the music shows at this year’s Fringe so far include unorthodox jazz and musical athleticism{http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/music/antonio-forcione-sketches-of-africa| Antonio...
View ArticleGary Flockhart: Comedians v Critics are not playing for laughs
IT’S not the biggest event on the Fringe, but in some ways it’s the one I most look forward to.The annual Amnesty International Critics versus Comedians football match has been a lot of fun to take...
View ArticleJonathan Melville: Meanwhile, over at the zomcom schlockfest
THE Room has been called ‘The Citizen Kane of bad movies’ and it’s coming to Edinburgh Fringe on Sunday - yet another reason why film fans should go through the programme with a fine-tooth comb this...
View ArticleLocked-in sufferers lose right to die case
LOCKED-IN syndrome sufferer Tony Nicklinson has lost his High Court battle for the legal right to end his life when he chooses with a doctor’s help.• Both Mr Nicholson and another “locked-in” victim...
View ArticleKaren Koren: Still funny after all of these years . . .
ONLY 12 more days to go now and, with the Olympics behind us more and more people are arriving to enjoy what the Fringe has to offer.This year we are celebrating the 25th fabulous So You think You’re...
View ArticleArts Blog: Oliver Lansley tells why he keept returning to the Fringe
This year marks my 11th consecutive Edinburgh with my company Les Enfants Terribles, and it’s got me thinking… why do I keep coming back? I mean, it’s cold, it’s wet, there are so many hills, and sooo...
View ArticleScottish word of the day: Mawkit
Mawkit is generally used as a description for something dirty. Really dirty. We’re talking covered from head-to-toe in mud, rather than a wee bit of dust. Readers of a slightly squeamish disposition...
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