Edinburgh

An £850,000 Salvador Dali sculpture of a lobster-shaped telephone has been secured for Scotland’s national art collection - months after the UK Government stepped in to try to keep it in the UK.

SOME of the Capital’s most notorious criminals could feature in a new television documentary about their bids to walk free.

With its vibrant food and drink scene, its historic setting and buckets of culture, its no surprise that Edinburgh has been named the best city in the UK for students to live and study.

A couple from Edinburgh have spoken out about how they almost got conned out of thousands of pounds by fraudsters posing as tax officials.

A council director has been forced to apologise following a row over the process that gave Edinburgh Rugby’s new stadium the green light.

An Edinburgh gin producer has landed a seven-figure funding package which has allowed it to export its gin-filled Christmas baubles to the US for the first time.

Helicopters and police dogs have been drafted in to search for pensioner William Scott who has been missing since Tuesday.

Legal action is being considered against the owner of a burger restaurant who sacked staff without pay just weeks before Christmas.

John Menzies has hailed the decision by the competition watchdog to provisionally approve its aviation arm’s acquisition of a rival.

Transport police are appealing for information after a group of men chanted sectarian songs onboard a train travelling from Edinburgh to Dundee.

John Donnelly: Let’s get slicker at marketing our city of Edinburgh

Single malt whisky distilling has returned to Edinburgh after one of the city’s best known drinks brands pushed the button on spirit production.

An easyJet flight from Edinburgh to Madrid was forced into an emergency landing in England after a passenger on board required urgent medical assistance.

Scottish legal heavyweight Burness Paull has ramped up the size of its Edinburgh base as it continues to win new international work.

Police investigating the death of Mhari O’Neill fear the teen may have died from the cold after drinking with a friend on Calton Hill.

A MAN was found dead in a Capital flat after the police response was botched because a controller thought the caller was wasting officers’ time, a watchdog has found.

QUESTIONS are being asked as to how a new mum could get lost in the Royal Infirmary before being found dying alone in a stairwell.

Edinburgh-based franchise consultancy Platinum Wave is celebrating the launch of its recruitment agency, Franchise Moves.

A NEW mum is feared to have bled to death in a hospital stairwell after getting lost on her way back to a ward from seeing her premature baby son.