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The Witchcraft Act being brought into law in 1563 and remained until 1736, seeing hundreds of women strangled, drowned or burnt at the stake for their alleged crimes.

After a drop in complaints during the first year of the pandemic, the council last year saw a 73 per cent rise as residents were left unhappy due to overflowing and uncollected bins.

The Doomsday Clock has moved to 100 seconds until midnight amid growing geopolitical tensions across the world, while a new tool shows just how a blast would affect the Capital...let's beat the January blues together

Renshaw was in the dock for sentencing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday after previously pleading guilty to directing a verbal sexual communication to the woman for the purposes of obtaining sexual gratification.

The boundary for the proposed low emission zone, which will incur hefty fines for older models of cars from 2024 onwards, encompasses much of the city centre.

WhyNot nightclub received a huge turnout as locals waited in line, desperate to get back onto the dance floor following a forced to closure to curb the spread of covid.

After failing to show up to court last October, accused of murdering his own mother, Sean Flynn's body was found in Spain two days later. Judges have now ruled that he would have been found guilty

The statue of Scotland's national poet has been lovingly restored and now takes pride of place in a new public space in Leith - but not everyone was impressed by the big reveal after two years away

Former Oasis rocker recalls disturbing incident when sex pervert movie mogul Harvey Weinstein leered at his wife, Edinburgh-born Sara MacDonald, over lunch in Paris.