13 h. ago Fringe Firsts: six more winners of the Scotsman's prestigious theatre awards

Our prizes for new writing premiered at the Fringe are announced each Friday during August - today we’re delighted to reveal our second week of winners.

Events

31 h. ago Naive defending singled out as St Mirren B lose KDM Evolution Trophy opener at Dumbarton

The Buddies fielded some first-team fringe players in the 4-2 defeat to the League Two outfit.

Politics

33 h. ago After a tough year, dad wins £78k Aston Martin for just 20p in an online prize draw

A year out of work recovering from a hip replacement ended in style for Eugene Dunkley, who won a £78,000 Aston Martin for 20p.

Economics

6 d. ago Unclaimed Lottery prizes: millions in National Lottery tickets remain unclaimed — you could be a winner

Don’t miss out on hidden fortunes waiting to be discovered — a forgotten ticket could turn your day around 💰

Politics

7 d. ago 'I felt compelled to keep the city's story alive': Mimi Martin on the origins of her Hong Kong protest play

After moving to Hong Kong as a child, playwright and performer Mimi Martin witnessed the state crackdown on protest first-hand. She explains how it informed her one-woman Fringe play Youth in Flames

Events

7 d. ago Fringe Firsts week one: we reveal the first five winners of the Scotsman's prestigious theatre prizes

Edinburgh festivals editor Andrew Eaton-Lewis explains the importance of the Scotsman’s Fringe First awards - and announces our first five winners of 2025

Politics

8 d. ago Pussy Riot on their raucous Fringe return: ‘In times of crisis, silence becomes complicity’

The world has become even more volatile since Pussy Riot first performed at the Fringe in 2018. But the Russian activist collective are still determined to make their protests heard with a raucous updated show. By Fiona Shepherd

Events

9 d. ago Donald Trump left 'deeply touched' after receiving 'unique' gift from John Swinney

EXCLUSIVE: The First Minister told a Fringe audience in Edinburgh that the US President "made it abundantly clear to me that he absolutely adores Scotland".

Politics

9 d. ago John Swinney admits his wife is 'struggling a bit' as he opens up on balancing family life with politics

The First Minister told an audience at the Edinburgh Fringe he was "very sorry" Kate Forbes was quitting Holyrood - but said he "totally understood" her situation.

Politics

1 week ago Watch: Pleasance director speaks on closing Fringe courtyard for first time in 41 years due to Storm Floris

The closure is the first in the Pleasance’s 41 year history

Events

1 week ago A new start after 60: I became a dancer at 68 – and will perform my first solo show at 82

Christine Thynne was nervous about going to her first dance class. But at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe she will be on stage alone, doing all the ‘things I shouldn’t be doing’At 82, Christine Thynne is an emerging artist. “Risk! There’s a colossal amount of risk,” Thynne says. She is about to perform her show, These Mechanisms, over three weeks at the Edinburgh fringe. While “emerging” isn’t a word often applied to artists in their 80s, Thynne says the description is appropriate. “I wasn’t there before,” she says. “I wasn’t a solo performer.”Thynne’s show melds aspects of her life – she trained as a physiotherapist in the 1960s – along with other passions. Among her props are planks, stepladders and water. “Things I shouldn’t be doing,” she says. “Moving scaffolding planks. Changing the shape of stepladders. Carrying water.” Continue reading...

Culture

1 week ago Welsh Labour MP Chris Bryant says he was sexually abused by theatre boss as a teenager

The Labour minister said he was left feeling like a '16-year-old whore' by Michael Croft, the head of the prestigious National Youth Theatre

Events

1 week ago Lottery unclaimed prizes: millions in National Lottery UK jackpots, tickets still waiting for winners

Millions in lottery winnings go unnoticed - your ticket could be the next big winner 🎟️

Politics

3 w. ago Former winner Henrik Stenson hits out over 'inconsistent' pace

Bryson DeChambeau also unhappy about being put on clock in third round at Royal Portrush

Events

4 w. ago ‘I was censored for a long time’: the woman who photographed Chile’s sex workers and dissidents

From brothels to boxing rings, Paz Errázuriz’s tender images always challenged the Pinochet dictatorship. Now 81 years old – and ahead of a UK show – the spiky-haired artist recounts a career spent on the fringesWhen the Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz showed her first photobook to a well-known society photographer of the day, he told her “look, a housewife will never be a photographer”.“That’s what he said!” she laughs. “Imagine that was my beginning.” Today, aged 81, her work documenting life on the fringes of Chilean society sits in the collections of Tate Modern and MoMA in New York and in 2015 she represented Chile at the Venice Biennale. Continue reading...

Culture