Edinburgh Fringe
Festival 2003

On a Saturday night there was an awful lot of drunkenness, fall oots aboot football or somethin’

Two exhibitions in Scotland have a common theme: colour and fashion. Kennedy Wilson gets on his glad rags

Both signalmen were subsequently found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced to periods of imprisonment, one with hard labour

Our current situation is the polar opposite of Lockdown, it’s a lot more people-y in one of the UK’s most densely populated areas

John Tantalon gives us another twisted tale from his files

Jean Adamson watched through a care home window as her father sang a hymn while succumbing to the virus on Easter Sunday 2020

We owe a huge debt to groups like the Water of Leith Conservation Trust, working tirelessly at the sharp end

In 1969 Prince Philip pressed a button that would prove to be a very significant intervention into natural forces

A special mention to the lovely waiter come beekeeper who patiently explained the inner workings of his apiary to us

A fascinating history of crimes committed during the 19th Century, either in Leith or by people originating from Leith, Margaret Hubble tells us more

Every summer, Edinburgh is hijacked by tourism. Perhaps there’s a 1970s style thriller in the making suggests Colin Montgomery

Two films, made 20 years apart, show different aspects of that old trope, the woman in peril. Kennedy Wilson goes to the rescue

Cammy Day on a number of Council initiatives with the old port at their heart

After a damp and warm week, the pathway lies bordered in deep green; nettles and ground-elder covering every spare inch

The shell ricocheted off the water and hit a tenement at 118 Salamander Street in Leith. Fortunately no one was injured