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“TV was everything to me,” said British playwright James Graham at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival’s MacTaggart lecture on August 20. The dramatist used his recollections of the television he watched in his youth together with tales of his working-class background to discuss a possible future of TV – including…

EDINBURGH is set to introduce a tourist tax after the city's council approved a draft plan on Thursday – but how will it work?

After a month of relentless laughter, the final seven contenders are here

A COUNCIL has voted to introduce a charge for visitors in a move expected to raise tens of millions of pounds each year ...

More than 100 organisations criticise loss of Creative Scotland funding for local artists during Edinburgh festival

A HISTORIC 125-year-old Edinburgh pub could be saved from permanent closure if a new tenant is found ...

The space owner in Edinburgh told us to use ‘any spot available’, then we got the ticket

From the Edinburgh duo who toured with the Beatles to the ribbon-festooned Strawberry Switchblade, Scotland produced thrilling girl bands. So why couldn’t they sustain their success? A new film tells their stories

A PEACE garden aimed at bringing together people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds has opened in Edinburgh following the far-right…

Three-year campaign by parents of aid worker killed in Afghanistan brings 19 trainee doctors to Scotland

As Duncan Macmillan’s celebration of the little things in life lights up the Edinburgh fringe, 10 years after its debut, the actors who have helped make it a hit all over the world explain its universal power to connect