“Looking back, I realise I captured the birth of rock’n’roll”

As the tectonic plates shift and the world judders, Colin Montgomery takes himself off to Ayrshire

It’s the kind of place where everyone is younger than you but kind enough not to notice

Best remembered for Breakfast at Tiffany’s Truman Capote’s real magnum opus was far darker says Kennedy Wilson

The only thing ever questioned is why people don’t drink, it’s a qualifier for belonging

Disability Payment will replace PIP for disabled people of working age
in Scotland

Ministers took to the airwaves to lie, not obfuscate, or divert attention, but actually lie about what Johnson had said

At the time of writing, France is in the middle of presidential elections. I’m predicting Macron again – but only just!

Tom Wheeler makes a decent fist of trying to justify bubble gum pop and Cheesy Wotsits

After they drowned her I tried to make myself as small as my hands when they were clasped in prayer

Accusations of monstrous bad behaviour quickly poisoned the well of the station’s much loved community spirit

Tim Bell (self-portrait) sends out a call to writers and would be writers to send in contributions for the second volume of Leith’s very own compendium of new writing: The Darting Salamander.

It’s just a rumor that was spread around town
By the women and children
Soon we’ll be shipbuilding
Elvis Costello

John S Tantallon interviews Ghosts Trapped Underground’s Jade Cappaso about her childhood encounter in Leith

Hawthornvale in Newhaven is a community within a community, Dougie Ratcliffe tells us more

Regulations from a bygone era continue, but the writing is on the wall: The numbers don’t lie