3 d. ago Edinburgh Psych Fest 2025 Stage Times: Lineup, full set times, venues and where to get your festival wristbands

Music fans are in for a treat this Sunday.

Culture

3 d. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Giles Havergal, artistic director who led the Citizens Theatre to global fame

Giles Havergal, theatre director, actor, writer and teacher. Born: 9 June 1938 in Edinburgh. Died: 23 August 2025 in Polegate, East Sussex, aged 87

Culture

4 d. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Giles Havergal, former Citizens’ Theatre Artistic Director who brought radical work to Glasgow and beyond

Giles Havergal, theatre director, actor, writer and teacher. Born: 9 June 1938 in Edinburgh. Died: 23 August 2025 in Polegate, East Sussex, aged 87

Culture

5 d. ago Edinburgh Comedy award winner Sam Nicoresti: ‘Actually, this whole show is a monumental failure!’

The comic was determined to make a blockbuster standup show that didn’t address trans issues. Then she changed her mind – and scooped comedy’s biggest prizeThere’s efficiency, then there’s the process that led to Sam Nicoresti winning the most prestigious award in live comedy. “A year ago my girlfriend asked me to marry her,” says Nicoresti on accepting the £10,000 prize last weekend. “[When] we were talking about how to pay for the wedding, I joked and said, ‘It’s easy, I’ll just win the Edinburgh comedy award’.” Can it be true? Is Nicoresti not only the first transgender winner of the so-called Oscars of comedy, but the first ever to manifest victory by force of strategic will?“It’s amazing what you can do,” she grins, three days after her triumph, “if you set your mind to something.” And that’s what Nicoresti has done in the last 12 months, turning around a niche career in alt-comedy, pointing it towards stardom, and pressing her pedal to the metal. Her winning show Baby Doomer w...

Events

7 d. ago Scottish Nurseries League Table 2025: The 10 best nurseries in Edinburgh, based on care regulator gradings

A new league table has revealed the best and worst nurseries in Scotland’s capital city

Politics

7 d. ago Edinburgh Festival Fringe Awards 2025: Here are all the shows that won prizes this August

There are no shortage of prizes on offer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - here’s who won them this year.

Events

7 d. ago The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo on TV: how to watch 75th anniversary highlights on TV? Full details

BBC One will be showing highlights from the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 🚨

Events

9 d. ago Sam Nicoresti’s Baby Doomer wins best comedy show award at Edinburgh fringe 2025

Playful set about Nicoresti’s life as a trans woman wins main award, with Ayoade Bamgboye named best newcomerThe Edinburgh comedy award, the annual “Oscar of comedy” given to the best show at the fringe, has been won by Sam Nicoresti for Baby Doomer, which is based around a humiliating experience in a department store changing room.The Birmingham standup becomes the first transgender winner of the prestigious award after near-misses for Jordan Gray in 2022 – and Eddie Izzard 34 years ago. Nicoresti pockets £10,000 in prize money and, on accepting the award, joked they had promised their partner the win a year ago to help pay for their upcoming wedding. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago The Scotsman Fringe First awards: The best photos from Fringe First awards as final four winners revealed

The ceremony featured special guest presenter Miriam Margolyes

Sport

1 week ago Oasis Edinburgh 2025: Liam Gallagher makes dig at Edinburgh council in new live track from Murrayfield gig

The band has since hit out at Edinburgh council at its show in Dublin

Politics

1 week ago Faustus in Africa! review – William Kentridge’s devilishly clever twist on damnation

Royal Lyceum, EdinburghFaustus is not damned alone in a parable about western hubris leading to war, colonialism and environmental exploitationAs told by Goethe and Marlowe, the story of Faust is of one man’s journey into temptation. Having explored the outer limits of human knowledge, this renaissance man can go no further. Unless, that is, he signs a pact with the devil. In exchange for his soul, Mephistopheles gives him all the earthly pleasure and intellectual satisfaction he desires.But sins have consequences and in this ambitious show by William Kentridge for South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, a reworking of a 1995 production, Faustus does not take this journey towards damnation alone: the world comes with him. Now, his list of job titles extends to missionary and enslaver, and his travels across the African continent lead to war, exploitation and environmental catastrophe. If there were an eighth deadly sin, it would be that of colonialism. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Labour council bans residents from using fireworks on Bonfire Night after red pandas 'killed by stress' from the loud bangs

Last year Edinburgh Zoo vets blamed the death of three-month-old panda kit Roxie and its mother on her reaction to fireworks in the local area.

Events

1 week ago Firework ban expanded in Edinburgh after death of red pandas at zoo

Two red pandas – a mother and baby – may have died from shock at Edinburgh Zoo due to firework stress.

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1 week ago Firework ban expanded in Edinburgh after deaths of red pandas at zoo

Two red pandas – a mother and baby – may have died from shock at Edinburgh Zoo due to firework stress.

Events

1 week ago Bonfire Night 2025: Edinburgh doubles firework ban zones, including at Corstorphine zoo after red panda death

Edinburgh Zoo said it was “very grateful” for the move following the death of a baby panda in 2024

Events

1 week ago Firework control zones expanded after death of red pandas at zoo last year

Nine areas of Edinburgh will be under a ban on fireworks from October 31 to November 9.

Events

1 week ago Public asked to help name endangered red panda cub born at zoo

The female panda was born at Bristol Zoo Project on June 26.

Politics

1 week ago Edinburgh Comedy Awards Nominees 2025: Here's who's made the shortlists this year

We now know who is up for the biggest awards in British comedy.

Events

1 week ago Funniest Jokes of the Fringe 2025: Here are the 19 best jokes told in Edinburgh this year

These are the jokes that have had audiences rolling in the aisles this August.

Politics

1 week ago Shine Night Walk Edinburgh 2025: Cancer Research 10k fundraiser returns to Edinburgh

The walk tours the capital’s iconic landmarks

Science