The Latest Breaking News from Edinburgh

We all love the Festival Fringe and everything that it has to offer but sometimes it can all be a bit too much with large crowds and pricey pints. So to allow you to get some peace, we have created a list of some of the regions best beaches.

The mum was petrified when her new rattan garden furniture burst into flames but believes her bulldog pooch saved the family’s life when he alerted them to the danger

Commonly, people often think the practice of concealing windows links back to a 1696 tax called the window tax, and some inventive tax-dodging by the property owners of the day.

Anna's Delicacies is due to take over the former Digital Axis grocers, repair shop and newsagents on Earlston Place, with a colourful blue mural being painted over the metal shutter to tease passers by.

Michael Meehan, 41, vanished from Rose Street in the city centre on Thursday afternoon but has now been found.

The Edinburgh local first broke the world record back in 2000, when a Guinness World Records official examined her and found 462 piercings on her body, including 192 on her face

Police Scotland have now appealed for any information that could help police track him down as they are concerned for his health and well-being, having not been seen in two days

Civerinos at Portobello took to Twitter to report the incident, saying that the local nursery hut was vandalised for firewood to burn on the beach during the heatwave last week

Officers say kids as young as ten-years-old, during the hot weather, have been jumping into the water at the dam on the South Esk river near Lothianburn, Newtongrange, which they say is dangerous and putting lives at risk

City of Edinburgh Council deputy leader Mandy Watt claimed that the strip clubs would be able to remain open if they did not tell their workers to strip off.

Stephanie Caprez was reunited with her custom gown just hours before tying the knot at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh thanks to efforts of kind-hearted Graeme Reid.