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An Edinburgh councillor has apologised after being recorded calling an opponent a liar during a full council meeting.

An action plan will be drawn up after proposed works to a high school where a pupil was killed four years ago by a falling wall were not carried out over the summer break.

A busy route past the city’s newest high school could be closed to traffic over fears pupils are not being kept safe.

An architect and historian has hit out at music school plans as the public inquiry into the future of the old Royal High School got under way.

The city council has been rapped for failing to support a child leaving care – including wrongly advising her to present as homeless to be offered somewhere to live.

Transport for Edinburgh has been forced to apologise to Conservative councillors after an “administrative oversight” saw them “excluded” from the launch of the city’s cycle hire scheme.

A cafe owner has been left furious after councillors approved plans for an inflatable playpark to set up shop next door to his Cramond cafe without being asked if he would mind.

An asthmatic woman is backing calls for a “people-focused” transformation of the Capital after being shut out of the city centre because she cannot breathe.

Vigilant Edinburgh residents are to be invited to team up with police in their fight for road safety.. by pointing their own speed guns at motorists.

Cyclists will be whizzing around the Capital after the long-awaited bike hire scheme was launched across the city.

Utility companies have been told not to “take the council as fools” as the Capital gears up for more disruption along Queensferry Road.

The city council has been accused of ignoring the views of villagers after proposals to build up to 100 homes on the edge of Kirkliston were given the green light.

Police Scotland have been urged to investigate re-opening local police stations across the Capital to the public after officers in Balerno were able to use a mothballed station to crack down on anti-social behaviour during the summer.

An urgent investigation will take place into the “atrocious conditions” that dozens of council tenants are being subjected to in high rise flats in the Capital – as a leading charity hit out at the authority.

Proposals to transform a former high school into housing have been approved despite worries over transport and affordable housing.

Edinburgh needs to find around £2 million to build enough extra allotment pitches to meet Scottish Government requirements, it has emerged.

A new task force charged with reducing the number of young people in the Capital living in relative poverty has been set .

Plans to build a velodrome as part of a new cycling hub in the east of the city have been pushed forward – despite a funding gap of £441,000.

Severe winter weather halted a leisure company owned by the city council from tallying up an additional £100,000.