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Gary Flockhart
Lifestyle Editor
Gary Flockhart
Lifestyle Editor

Gary Flockhart is Lifestyle Editor at the Edinburgh Evening News. A senior journalist with years of experience in a newsroom, Edinburgh-born Gary, who attended Portobello High School, has a strong background in features and entertainment, but also enjoys writing local news stories.

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These 13 eerie photos show Edinburgh’s empty streets during the early days of the first lockdown in 2020
These 13 eerie photos show Edinburgh’s empty streets during the early days of the first lockdown in 2020

13 photos of Edinburgh’s empty streets during first lockdown

Have a look through our photo galllery to see what Edinburgh life was like back in 1995.
Have a look through our photo galllery to see what Edinburgh life was like back in 1995.

17 incredible photos of Edinburgh in 1995

We’ve compiled a list of the 15 best Edinburgh pubs to watch this weekend's rugby action unfold.
We’ve compiled a list of the 15 best Edinburgh pubs to watch this weekend's rugby action unfold.

15 great pubs to watch the Six Nations

Try out quiz and see how many of the 12 questions you can get correct. Answers are in the final photo.
Try out quiz and see how many of the 12 questions you can get correct. Answers are in the final photo.

Quiz: Match 12 features to the landmarks they belong to

Looking down Leith Street in Edinburgh towards Picardy Place in 1958. Picture shows (left hand side) the Top Deck restaurant, John Collier menswear and Timpson's shoe shop. All these shops were demolished to make way for St James Centre and King James Hotel in 1969.
Looking down Leith Street in Edinburgh towards Picardy Place in 1958. Picture shows (left hand side) the Top Deck restaurant, John Collier menswear and Timpson's shoe shop. All these shops were demolished to make way for St James Centre and King James Hotel in 1969.

In pictures: 17 incredible buildings we lost

Take a look through our photo gallery to be transported back in time.
Take a look through our photo gallery to be transported back in time.

In pictures: Edinburgh's suburbs down the decades

We take a look at 19 lost Edinburgh institutions that are gone but not forgotten.
We take a look at 19 lost Edinburgh institutions that are gone but not forgotten.

In pictures: 18 Edinburgh institutions we lost

Footlights Bar and Grill in Spittal Street is a great choice for the Six Nations rugby - or indeed any other sport - with two giant laser screens and six large TVs. If you're feeling peckish, they serve tasty Scottish pub grub, including burgers.
Footlights Bar and Grill in Spittal Street is a great choice for the Six Nations rugby - or indeed any other sport - with two giant laser screens and six large TVs. If you're feeling peckish, they serve tasty Scottish pub grub, including burgers.

Edinburgh's 15 best pubs to watch Six Nations

Martin Compston, right, lost out on the role of Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders to Cillian Murphy, left.
Martin Compston, right, lost out on the role of Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders to Cillian Murphy, left.

Martin Compston recalls failed Peaky Blinders audion