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Edinburgh author JK Rowling receives terrifying death threat on social media

The author was horrified by the attack that saw Salman Rushdie stabbed multiple times in a vicious attack in New York and took to Twitter to offer her support for her fellow author.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh weather: When yellow thunderstorm warning will end

A yellow weather warning for thunderstorms is currently in effect in Edinburgh, with wet weather and slumping temperatures forecast across the next few days in the city

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh fringe 2022 week one roundup: from care home tales to a Berlin fetish night

Sex, social commentary and shows with no actors: where else but the first full fringe since 2019, with standout moments from Sheeps, Bilal Zafar and ‘a show without actors’

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Grandad faced with huge bill after influencers keep taking selfies on his doorstep

Peter Lee, 77, has models turn up on his doorstep every day to take pictures of his iconic pink home in Kensington Place.

Edinburgh Live

Furious Edinburgh restaurant catch woman on camera destroying £200 Dobbies planter

The Noon bar and Kitchen has hit out on social media after a vandal destroyed their new planters, saying they will involve the police unless the culprit returns to pay for the damage.

Edinburgh Live

Comic Jerry Sadowitz banned from Edinburgh Fringe after racism claims

Scottish comic Jerry Sadowitz apologised to fans who had travelled to Edinburgh to see his show, which was cancelled after just one night

Daily Mirror

The five appliances draining your household energy and how much they cost you

Experts said that at Wednesday’s energy prices they expect that regulator Ofgem could be forced to set the cap at £5,038 per year for the average household in the three months beginning next April.

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Top Edinburgh chef hits back after diner moans about '£5 for bread' at his restaurant

The former MasterChef: The Professionals contestant Dean Banks has defended his new Edinburgh restaurants decision to charge for bread after a negative online review

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh notebook: ‘Rik Mayall was like Bad Santa to us’

Stand-up comic Red Richardson on his pedigree comedy childhood

The Guardian - UK

Lara Ricote: ‘I won the Funny Women award on a terrible day – I had gotten my hearing aids stuck in my ear’

The brilliant new stand-up is making her Fringe debut this month. She talks to Isobel Lewis about her Mexican heritage, discovering improv in Amsterdam and why she’s taking the financial risk of going to Edinburgh

The Independent UK

The threats and warnings issued by your Edinburgh mum and dad back in the day

Many of the common threats and warnings that Edinburgh parents used to whip out have fallen out of fashion in recent years, and some for very good reason. We take a look at some of the 'classics'.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh weather: Exact time thunderstorms to hit capital with warnings in place

Thunderstorms are also to be expected to continue into Monday August 15 and showers will remain throughout the day on Tuesday but no yellow weather warning for thunder and lightning will be in place.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh Fringe performer forced to wild camp as he can't afford city rent

Vash Pernikar, 33, has committed to living in a tent for the entirety of his Edinburgh festival run after he was unable to fork out for somewhere to stay for the month.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh Fringe becomes party central as LGBT shows make debut

TWO of the best parties in Scotland have landed in Edinburgh after theatre makers brought their new shows to the capital.

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Amy Molloy is stunning audiences in This is Paradise for the second year running

THE strange, tentative Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 was drawing to a close. The social distancing at the eerily quiet Traverse Theatre was so…

The National (Scotland)

Edinburgh Fringe reviews: I admire Alan Cumming, but Burn is a comprehensive failure

WHERE would the Traverse Theatre’s Edinburgh festivals programme be without Irish writers, actors and companies? The most cursory consideration of…

The Guardian - UK

Jerry Sadowitz Edinburgh fringe standup show axed due to complaints

Pleasance theatre cancels Scottish comic, saying his material ‘does not align with our values’

Edinburgh Live

Midlothian man films strange and unsettling creepy crawly in back garden

Jim Matson from Dalkeith was amazed by what he had discovered in his back garden and took to social media to ask locals for suggestions on what the creature could be.

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Edinburgh Live

Controversial Edinburgh Fringe performer has show cancelled by venue bosses

Jerry Sadowitz is known for his controversial material but some audience members felt the performer had gone too far and complained to organisers about the content of his show.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh bar forced to close on Sundays amid 'rising costs' and 'staffing' issues

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh reveller 'with no pulse' saved by quick thinking street volunteers

Street Assist responded to an incident at around 1am on Blair Street. A man was 'found to be rather intoxicated' but his health began to deteriorate and he stopped breathing.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh man races from his own Greek wedding to perform in the Fringe

The pair's honeymoon will be their show in the Edinburgh Fringe, with Michael and Maria getting hitched in Greece just three days before their performance debuted.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson only PM I’ve worked with who has disgraced the office – Sturgeon

Appearing at a panel event at the Edinburgh Fringe on Saturday, Ms Sturgeon tackled a number of issues.

Edinburgh Live

Disabled Edinburgh poet almost misses own Fringe event due to 'packed' tram

Rosalind Alexander said that she was unable to get on the tram at her home after the passengers were "packed like sardines" on the public transport. This meant they took up the disabled spaces.

Edinburgh Live

East Lothian nurseries close and children in hospital after 28 cases of E. coli detected

NHS Lothian has updated residents of the issue and have said that two nurseries in Haddington have been closed following an outbreak of E. coli in the town. A handful of children have required treatment in hospital.

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