The Edinburgh Reporter

03/08/2025

A delivery driver. A student. A confused elderly lady. You might not think these three would have much in common. But on a single day in Edinburgh their paths will intersect. In Athens of the North, writer and solo performer Mark Hannah brings all three characters richly to life; their struggles, their foibles, their small, important, pleasures are laid before us in this accomplished show....

A delivery driver. A student. A confused elderly lady. You might not think these three would have much in common. But on a single day in Edinburgh their paths will intersect. In Athens of the North, writer and solo performer Mark Hannah brings all three characters richly to life; their struggles, th...

03/08/2025

Hibs head coach David Gray praised his players’ “professional performance” as they beat Dundee FC 2-1 at Dens Park. A brace from Kieron Bowie got Hibs’ league campaign off to a positive start, in what was a very controlled, comfortable performance. When speaking to Hibs TV after the game, Gray heaped praise on his side. “I’m very pleased. It was a real professional performance from start to finish and it needed to be....

Hibs head coach David Gray praised his players’ “professional performance” as they beat Dundee FC 2-1 at Dens Park. A brace from Kieron Bowie got Hibs’ league campaign off to a positive start, in what was a very controlled, comfortable performance. When speaking to Hibs TV after the game, Gr...

03/08/2025

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has generated no shortage of competing and conflicting narratives and part of the potency of Yousef Sweid's one-man play is that, by dint of his family's multi-faceted background, he is able to bring many of them together. Sweid, 49, a Palestinian-Israeli Christian living in Berlin, has two Jewish-Arab children through his two Israeli-Jewish ex-wives. As he explains: "We are a completely normal family; an Arab, Palestinian, Jewish, Israeli, Austrian, Romanian, Christian family."...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has generated no shortage of competing and conflicting narratives and part of the potency of Yousef Sweid’s one-man play is that, by dint of his family’s multi-faceted background, he is able to bring many of them together. Sweid, 49, a Palestinian-Israeli Christi...

03/08/2025

Welcome to the broom cupboard," Aaron Wood says to his 20-strong audience at one of the Apex conference centre's six "amazing performance spaces", as the four-star Apex Hotel on The Grassmarket prefers to call them. Wood, 28, grew up on a "scary" council estate in Stockport and now lives with his girlfriend in Hyde in Greater Manchester. His was conceived in the back of a Ford Explorer, he tells us, and his father left before he was born....

Welcome to the broom cupboard,” Aaron Wood says to his 20-strong audience at one of the Apex conference centre’s six “amazing performance spaces”, as the four-star Apex Hotel on The Grassmarket prefers to call them. Wood, 28, grew up on a “scary” council estate in Stockport and now li...

03/08/2025

A fabulous afternoon at the Ross Bandstand with Edinburgh International Festival. Performance by community choirs from across Scotland, joined later by Dougie MacLean.

03/08/2025

At the invitation of The Royal Scots Club, The Band of The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (British Army) played a concert in Queen Street Gardens East, Edinburgh on Saturday August 2nd.

The band is an integral part of the 4th Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, its new identity began in July 2006 when it was renamed from The North West Infantry Band to The Band of The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. The band is held in high esteem and classed as one of the finest Army Reserve Bands in the United Kingdom

03/08/2025

A Kieron Bowie double secured a well deserved opening day victory for Hibs in the City of Discovery this afternoon. The game ended 2-1 in Hibs favour but in truth the scoreline flattered Steven 'Elvis' Pressley's Dundee given the total domination of the Easter Road side. Hibs head coach David Gray made one change to his starting XI that lost in extra time to FC Midtjylland on Thursday with Junior Hoilett replacing Jamie McGrath....

A Kieron Bowie double secured a well deserved opening day victory for Hibs in the City of Discovery this afternoon. The game ended 2-1 in Hibs favour but in truth the scoreline flattered Steven ‘Elvis’ Pressley’s Dundee given the total domination of the Easter Road side. Hibs head coach David ...

03/08/2025

Artist Robert Powell shares a window into his playful and satirical world with an immersive installation at Edinburgh Printmakers Robert Powell: Hall of Hours at Edinburgh Printmakers until 2 November explores time through Powell’s unique imagery capturing humanity’s complexity, grandeur, and folly in intricate and thought-provoking compositions.Inspired by medieval Books of Hours, this multimedia exhibition featuring prints, sound installation and animation reflects on how we experience, order and preserve time and features a 4.5m high city sized non-numerical clock that explores time as an experiential concept…...

Artist Robert Powell shares a window into his playful and satirical world with an immersive installation at Edinburgh Printmakers Robert Powell: Hall of Hours at Edinburgh Printmakers until 2 November explores time through Powell’s unique imagery capturing humanity’s complexity, grandeur, and f...

03/08/2025

Children's favourite Balamory is to return to TV screens with the first new episodes in two decades set to be shown next year. Filming has begun on a new series, which will blend familiar characters such as nursery teacher Miss Hoolie, played by Julie Wilson Nimmo, and PC Plum, portrayed by Andrew Agnew, with a host of new faces. Brand new characters will include scientist and inventor Ava Potts, played by Danielle Jam; the Harbour Master, played by William Andrews; and local vet Dr Ollie, played by Carl Spencer....

Children’s favourite Balamory is to return to TV screens with the first new episodes in two decades set to be shown next year. Filming has begun on a new series, which will blend familiar characters such as nursery teacher Miss Hoolie, played by Julie Wilson Nimmo, and PC Plum, portrayed by Andrew...

03/08/2025

The Met Office has issued an amber weather warning for high winds across much of Scotland for on Monday. Areas affected are: • Highlands & Eilean Siar (Highland, Na h-Eileanan Siar) • Central, Tayside & Fife (Angus, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Falkirk, Fife, Perth and Kinross, Stirling) • Grampian (Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Moray) • SW Scotland, Lothian Borders, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian Council, Scottish Borders, West Lothian)...

The Met Office has issued an amber weather warning for high winds across much of Scotland for on Monday. Areas affected are: • Highlands & Eilean Siar (Highland, Na h-Eileanan Siar) • Central, Tayside & Fife (Angus, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Falkirk, Fife, Perth and Kinross, Stirlin...

03/08/2025

Postal Bowling Club have successfully retained the Maule Trophy by beating near neighbours Parkside Bowling Club in the final. The trophy, donated by city businessman St Robert Maule, was first contested in 1910. The winning line-up: Back row : Keith Anderson, Neal Rooney, Scott Whigham, Graham Clarkson, Kevin Gilroy, Colin Bain, Steven McIntosh Front row : Thomas Beattie, Derek Morrison, Scott McCardle, Willie Murray, Derek McLean

Postal Bowling Club have successfully retained the Maule Trophy by beating near neighbours Parkside Bowling Club in the final. The trophy, donated by city businessman St Robert Maule, was first contested in 1910. The winning line-up: Back row : Keith Anderson, Neal Rooney, Scott Whigham, Graham Clar...

03/08/2025

Josh Mulligan believes the Hibs players are fully focused on taking the positives from Thursday's tie against FC Midtjylland into the start of the league campaign which kicks off today away at Dundee – the midfielder’s former club. “We just need to get ready to go again after Thursday night,” said Mulligan. “It’ll be a strange feeling going back to Dens so soon, but it is just another football match at the end of the day – and it is one that we all want to win....

Josh Mulligan believes the Hibs players are fully focused on taking the positives from Thursday’s tie against FC Midtjylland into the start of the league campaign which kicks off today away at Dundee – the midfielder’s former club. “We just need to get ready to go again after Thursday night,...