9am Briefing: Guest curators to choose Film Festival line-up

GUEST curators including Actress Isabella Rossellini and rapper Mike Skinner will choose the "majority" of the line-up for this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, organisers have revealed.

The bulk of events in the programme will be selected by 14 luminaries from the worlds of film, music and literature, eight of whom were revealed yesterday.

Fewer premieres will be screened at this year's festival as part of a cost-cutting move. The change comes in the wake of the festival losing funding after the scrapping of the UK Film Council and the loss of sponsorship from Standard Life.

• TWO pedestrians were hit by cars within an hour of each other in separate incidents near the Cowgate.

Both were treated in hospital but it is understood neither suffered serious injuries following the incidents on Sunday.

• TENS of millions of pounds of NHS savings will be made in the Lothians thanks to a scheme launched today, the Scottish Government has said.

Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon was set to unveil the revamped NHS Efficiency and Productivity Framework initiative. It is understood as part of the nationwide 300 million savings, as much as 50m could be in the Lothians.