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The last time Bruce Springsteen played in Edinburgh was in 1981 - and his loyal fans were delighted to welcome The Boss back to the Capital.

Springsteen at Murrayfield: A collective emotional experience for 60,000 fans

The photograph of the HMS Challenger research team who were based at 32 Queen Street, Edinburgh. The frame is made of wood taken from the ship's mast. PIC: NMS.

Rare photograph found in Edinburgh second-hand shop left to nation

The first deals struck by the UK post-Brexit will come into force on Wednesday. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Scotland’s producers deserve better than ‘rushed through’ UK trade deals

First Minister Humza Yousaf during a visit to Castlebrae Community Campus in Edinburgh. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Scottish Government misses huge target pledged by Yousaf as waiting times rise

Cyclists at the Alloway railway tunnel on the route. Picture: Markus Stitz

New bike path could create ‘one of most picturesque cycling routes in the world’

Children meeting working dogs during the Estate that Educate open days. Picture: Kirk Norbury

Estates teach children about foraging, plucking game and shooting

Smoke from the wildfire at Cannich, near Loch Ness, can now be seen from space. Picture: Scottish Fire and Rescue Service

Smoke from massive wildfire visible from space

Wardie Bay, which lies just off Lower Granton Road, Edinburgh, has been designated bathing status by the Scottish Government (pic: Katharine Hay/The Scotsman)

Wild swimming: New designated bathing spot announced for Scotland

Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre in Lanarkshire

What is Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre and why is it so controversial?

Glasgow Warriors' Tom Jordan enjoyed a breakthrough season. (Photo by Ross MacDonald / SNS Group)

The Scotsman Rugby awards: Players of season and unforgettable try

Future Scotland

'LiFi' is a mobile wireless technology that uses light rather than radio frequencies to transmit data. By harnessing the light spectrum, it is said to provide more reliable wireless communications with 'unparalleled security'. Picture: Malcolm Cochrane Photography

Edinburgh firm behind 'game-changing' light-transmitting tech in major US deal

An aerial view of Merck's Glasgow site.

Life sciences injection: Industry giant to create 500 jobs across Scottish sites

Some of the female founders in STAC's third cohort of IoT companies. Picture: Stewart Attwood.

Glasgow's IoT-focused STAC cheers level of female participation in latest cohort

Transport

ScotRail's remaining diesel fleets such as its 40-year-old Inter7City trains are due to be scrapped by 2035. Picture: SNS Group

Are SNP's other transport pledges more achievable than the A9? – Alastair Dalton

RMT members on the picket line outside Edinburgh's Waverley Station. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Here are the only trains running in Scotland today

A couple survey Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire. Picture: VisitScotland

Surge in North America visitors to Scotland recorded

CalMac is being punished for Scottish Government's own failings (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

Ferries scandal gets worse with fines for CalMac and millions for consultants

Hebridean Isles should have returned from annual maintenance in February. Picture: Mn28/Wikimedia Commons

CalMac ferry disruption to continue under at least end of June

Work continues on hull 802 at the Ferguson Marine shipyard (Picture: John Devlin)

Building second ferry to same design as Glen Sannox is a huge risk

Ferguson Marine Limited is a shipbuilding company whose yard, located in Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, was established in 1903. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river.

Transparency demanded around secretive lawyer-led ferry contract probe

Crime

Firefighters try to keep flames from burning home from spreading to a neighboring apartment complex as they battle the Camp Fire in 2018 in Paradise, California (Picture: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Legal action looms after 88 fossil fuel firms blamed for half of global warming

Chief Constable Sir Iain Livingstone admitted that Police Scotland is 'institutionally racist'. Picture: PA

Police Scotland officers fear being labelled 'grass' if they call out misogyny, ...

All police forces must focus on their core duties of keeping us safe and fighting crime (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA)

Public services are being crushed by a lack of resources and high expectations

Police Scotland will continue responding to emergency mental health incidents. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA

Police Scotland confirms officers will respond to mental health calls

Weather

Scots are set to bask in the UK's hottest spring day of 2023. with the mercury expected to hit 25C on Wednesday -- but there will be a geographical divide, with the west expected to be as much as 10C warmer than eastern coasts. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Why this weekend is set to be so warm in Scotland as hottest day forecast

Scenes at Ayr beach as the temperature rises across Scotland

Warning of 'very high' wildfire risk as weekend could mark hottest day for 2023

Beyonce will performs in Edinburgh this weekend (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

Weather forecast for Beyonce's BT Murrayfield concert

A drought at Threipmuir Reservoir in the Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh, following a long, hot summer in 2018. This view is looking across part of the deeply-cracked reservoir bed which would normally be under water.

Why our hottest summer days could soon be much hotter

Politics

Keir Starmer's foreign policy still lacks a coherent and well-formed structure (Picture: Yui Mok/PA)

Starmer must end his strategic silence on international affairs – Azeem Ibrahim

The opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games featured a celebration of the NHS (Picture: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

As patients in pain go private, the health service is being lost

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of doubling down on his Brexit stance.

SNP says Labour going 'along with madness' as Keir Starmer defends Brexit policy

Shona Robison, unlike previous Finance Secretaries, does not appear to have much grasp on her brief (Picture: Andrew Cowan/pool/Getty Images)

Shona Robison appears out of her depth as £1 billion budget black hole looms

Pro-independence MSPs have rallied round embattled Green minister Lorna Slater (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

UK Tories have played into hands of SNP and Lorna Slater over recycling scheme

The SNP has appointed new auditors

Who are the new SNP auditors?

The Houses of Parliament

What is short money, why is it important for SNP and what does it pay for?

Coronavirus

Cats can contract Covid from humans

Warning as Scottish study shows cats can contract Covid from their owners

Being a carer can be a full-time job (Picture: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Many carers are living in poverty and struggling with their own health problems

Boris Johnson broke his own Covid lockdown rules, then lied about it (Picture: Alberto Pezzali/pool/Getty Images)

Covid lawbreakers Ferrier and Johnson should both face recall elections

Opinion

A former RNLI lifeboat is lowered into Martyn Steedman's camping site at Mains Farm in Thornhill, Stirlingshire (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

A holiday in a lifeboat that comes with a message for us all – Scotsman comment

The cringeworthy Mike Kerr, lead singer of the band Royal Blood (Picture: Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images)

Royal Blood, not the kids in the crowd, are supremely uncool – Euan McColm

David Alexander is CEO of DJ Alexander Scotland Ltd

Rental market in Scotland is going from strength to strength - David Alexander

Pamela Moffat and Chilli

From first rescue dog Sam, my life has been enriched immeasurably by dogs

The murderous Vladimir Putin and Winnie the Pooh-lookalike Xi Jinping toast each other during a reception in March this year (Picture: Pavel Byrkin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin's arrest warrant for US Senator offers a vision of a world run by tyrants

People

Edinburgh's Hidden Door festival, which has taken over the former Scottish Widows headquarters on Dalkeith Road, will be running until Sunday. Picture: Chris Scott

Hidden Door: Festival unveils transformation of former Scottish Widows HQ

Cécile McLorin Salvant.

Edinburgh International Festival: 14 highlights of the 2023 programme

More than 150 people turned out to mark Cookney Hall’s centenary.

Cookney Public Hall celebrates its centenary

The Kintore-Fiddes-Tealing 400kV consultation period will now end on June 23.

Substation project consultation period extended

The Drouthy Laird in Inverurie.

Inverurie's The Drouthy Laird granted early hours extension

If approved, the restaurant would be built on land at the Balmacassie Industrial Estate.

Plans submitted for McDonald's drive-thru in Ellon

Eat on the Green has gone up for sale.

Eat on the Green goes on the market

Obituaries

Ranjit Kaur addressing a rally around 1990

Scotsman Obituaries: Ranjit Kaur, activist, magistrate and trade unionist

Andy Rourke at an event in New York City in 2022 (Picture: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Scotsman Obituaries: Andy Rourke, quiet man bassist of The Smiths

Tina Turner performing on stage at London’s Wembley Stadium in July 2000 (Picture: Michael Stephens/PA Wire)

Scotsman Obituaries: Tina Turner, US singer whose career spanned six decades

Environment

International Beverage Holdings has invested heavily in a package of 'innovative green technology' at the distillery site on Speyside.

200-year-old whisky distillery that 'wasn’t built for efficiency' goes green

The dark-bordered beauty moth is just one of the invertebrate species at the centre of conservation work by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland

How 'breed and release' is keeping Scotland's wee bugs and beasties alive

Rockall sits 200 miles west of the Outer Hebrides and is where adventurer Cam Cameron plans to spend the next 60 days. PIC: Óglaigh na hÉireann/CC.

Three men land on Rockall as 60-day survival challenge begins

Campers and walkers have been warned to avoid any naked flames to cut the risk of igniting 'tinder-dry' vegetation after a spring with very low rainfall

Wildfire warning as firefighters hurt in giant week-long blaze in the Highlands

Sam Heughan. Picture: John Devlin

Sam Heughan issues ‘call to action’ to young Scots on climate emergency

The introduction of a deposit return scheme has turned into a constitutional argument.

Deposit return scheme argument exposes 'broken union', says Lorna Slater

Mr Ward said Rottal is managed in a way to integrate both traditional land use and other business interests (pic: Graeme Hart/Perthshire Picture Agency)

Scottish estate owner appointed as new leader of landowner membership group

UK News

Child refugees in particular can experience a high level of stress that affects their education (Picture: Aref Karimi/AFP via Getty Images)

Ethnic minority children are more likely to internalise mental health problems

Martin Amis in 1991. His book Time's Arrow was a story told backwards, another example of his firecracker fiction (Picture: Rebecca Naden/PA)

Martin Amis and my part in his fabulous literary life – Aidan Smith

Rishi Sunak's Cabinet is rather different to that of his predecessor-but-one, Boris Johnson (Picture: Dan Kitwood/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Sunak's Cabinet gradually losing rightwingers amid rise of ‘one nation’ Tories

Glenlee has been moored beside the Riverside Museum since 2011. Picture: John Devlin

Historic Glasgow tall ship Glenlee may have to introduce admission charges

Former finance secretary Kate Forbes

Forbes seeks 'urgent' Kinloch Castle poll as millionaire condemns failed sale

Kinloch Castle, the Grade A Listed Building on the Isle of Rum, which the Scottish Government has been unable to sell and lies in a state of slow decay. PIC: NatureScot.

Castle at the heart of island's future as millionaire speaks out on failed sale

World

A specialist inspects the damaged facade of a multi-storey apartment building after a reported drone attack in Moscow on Tuesday. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Why was Moscow attacked by drones and who was behind it?

The emergency services are trying to recover the bat which capsized on Lake Maggiore at the weekend. Picture: Getty Images

Secret services agents among those killed in Italian boat disaster

Smoke billows behind buildings in southern Khartoum. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Scot who led rescue of Britons fleeing Sudan war reveals ‘harrowing stories’

A rescuer putting out a fire in a building as a result of falling debris after a massive drone attack mainly targeting the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Picture: Pavlo Petrov/State Emergency Service of Ukrai/AFP via Getty Images

Kyiv hit by largest Russian drone attack since start of war

Caitriona Balfe as Claire Randall and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser from Outlander. A church connected to the series has gone up for sale. Picture: Starz!/Kobal/Shutterstock

Church popular with Outlander fans for sale as private developers loom

Mars bars have been given a new look as the chocolate bar ditches its traditional plastic wrapper for more environmentally friendly paper packaging. Picture: Mars Wrigley/PA Wire

Mars bars given new paper packaging as chocolate bar loses plastic wrapper

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Martin Lewis has shared a simple hack to extend expired Tesco Clubcard points which also triples their value - but you’ll have to be quick as the deadline is fast approaching.

Martin Lewis shares hack to extend expired Tesco Clubcard points

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