Briefing: Street evacuated Second World War grenade found

INVESTIGATIONS are continuing today after a city street was evacuated for hours when a live Second World War grenade was found by a janitor cleaning out a cupboard.

The grenade, complete with its pin, was discovered yesterday in an Edinburgh University building on Buccleuch Place when a group of builders started work on redecorating the basement.

A shocked worker stumbled across it lying in a box in a cupboard under the stairs of the Careers Advisory office.

David Berry to step down

EAST Lothian Council leader David Berry has announced he is stepping down from the post after three years.

Mr Berry, an SNP councillor for the North Berwick ward and the first nationalist councillor elected on to the local authority, is expected

to bow out at a council meeting on 8 June.

He has named his preferred successor as fellow party stalwart, Dunbar councillor Paul McLennan.

Fringe crowds to become part of the show

FOOTAGE from CCTV cameras will turn crowds on the streets of Scotland's capital during the Festival into the stars of a major new show.

Artists Jenny Hogarth and Kim Coleman plan to use footage from Edinburgh's large network of cameras to create a video installation after winning a share of the Scottish Government's Festivals Expo fund.