POLICE are monitoring sexual predator and conman John Cronin after he was set free and bailed to live with his parents in their East Lothian home.

THE founder of the MoonWalk has warned the Edinburgh fundraiser will have to be scrapped if council staff again hold up plans for next year’s midnight marathon.

A TOP city advertising agency has announced it has joined forces with a rival firm.

A MAN was left with facial injuries after being seriously assaulted in the early hours of Sunday morning.

STUDENT leaders and human rights workers have demanded Edinburgh University dumps its shareholding in a firm that helps make “killer” attack drones for the American military machine.

A MAJOR commuter link through Dalkeith will be shut until next year in a growing nightmare for residents, with the repair bill rising to almost £2 million.

A TRAIN was forced to stop after a driver saw two young boys sitting on the track.

THE Capital is set for hundreds of jobs and a home energy revolution after engineers opened a world-leading research centre to pioneer advances in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.

RESIDENTS are to accompany local politicians on a city-wide bike ride to highlight the needs of cyclists in the Capital.

TYNECASTLE cut a bleak picture as an overwhelming sense of inevitability meant there was no defiant singing or waving of banners.

THE father of missing Russian student Yulia Solodyankina has said her whole family are praying for her safe return.

A THUG who slashed a man, leaving him permanently disfigured has escaped jail – despite the government’s pledge to get tough on knife crime.

AN Edinburgh company director, who enjoyed the sport of extreme swimming, has drowned after getting into difficulties off the coast of south Devon.

THE decision by Hearts to continue selling season tickets just hours before they announced they were entering administration has been branded “appalling”.

THE future of Heart of Midlothian football club is in serious doubt, after the announcement on Monday that it is to go into administration with debts of £25 million, on what was described as “the darkest day” in the club’s 139-year history.

A MAN who brutally murdered his neighbour in a knife attack within hours of meeting him was today jailed for life for “the senseless killing”.

The Royal Blind School, one of Scotland’s most prestigious special schools, has appointed a new headteacher.

THEY are the intimate undies that would surely seal the deal on the sluggish courtship of Edinburgh’s pandas... it can only be bamboo boxers.

A LEADING city courier ­company has linked up with a specialist vehicle supplier to help meet increased workload across the country.

IT is the league that no-one wants to top. Today we can reveal Edinburgh’s hotspots for dog mess – with Sighthill and Gorgie ranking number one for complaints.