Blame it on tartan and whisky if you will. For decades, hotels in Scotland were a hum-drum (hum-dram?) affair of brown ...

Edinburgh's Royal Mile has scores of gift shops selling Scotland-themed souvenirs to a growing number of visitors The Royal Mile is the ancient spine of Edinburgh, visited by five million tourists ...

Edinburgh’s Niddry Street comes alive during the city’s annual Fringe festival. Like so many roads in the heart of the ...

A 185-metre-tall wind farm – known as Cair Vie (ironically, “Fair Wind” in Manx Gaelic) – is proposed by the Manx Utilities ...

SCOTLAND’S ‘pickpocket capital’ has been revealed. The popular tourist spot has been named as the worst location for thieves. The research has been compiled by Ripe Valuables ...

The city centre is buzzing with life and there are few better ways to spend a day from dusk til dawn than pottering about the ...

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Having been in post since December 2024, leading the Police Scotland Partnership portfolio in Edinburgh, I have enjoyed ...

I was lucky enough to be appointed as Edinburgh City Council’s festival and events champion for many years when I was a ...

One way that Nicola Benedetti has expanded the work of earlier Edinburgh Festival artistic directors has been her use of the Festival’s home ...

Sunderland might have been sent homeward to think again by their Scottish opponents, but it was still an enjoyable day out ...

Mandy, 58, and Joe, 67, have been a couple for nearly 10 years and had spoken briefly about marriage in the past - only to ...