City Council

The UK government is under fresh pressure to tackle growing visa curbs faced by international artists blocked from entering Scotland to perform at Edinburgh’s festivals.

Edinburgh City Council is set to table detailed proposals to the Scottish Government to charge visitors £2 a night in the UK’s first tourist tax.

A woman who spotted a mattress in Edinburgh with a sign above saying ‘Airbnb - £5 a night’ says the prank raises a serious issue about housing.

TOURISTS could be charged for visiting the Capital’s council-run museums and galleries while residents continue to get in free.

FAR-REACHING proposals to buy Edinburgh tenement flats from owners to ensure essential repairs are carried out are to be progressed.

Nicola Sturgeon has faced pressure to increase the age of criminal responsibility in Scotland to 14 or risk lagging behind Russia and China.

PLANS have been submitted for a new student flat development in the heart of the Old Town.

The city council has been forced to re-advertise almost 100 planning applications after an IT upgrade led to computer systems grinding to a halt.

EDINBURGH should double in size in the next 25 years as it leads Scotland’s vital population growth, a seminar on the Capital’s future has heard.

The majority of Scotland’s prisons - including HMP Edinburgh - were at or beyond their maximum capacity last month, figures show.

A BUSINESS group has attacked Edinburgh City Council over its unwillingness to take concerns over loss of trade seriously following a ban on A-boards.

The city council has been branded a “disgrace” after agreeing to allow non-elected officers to shut roads without decisions being scrutinised by councillors.

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

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will join Edinburgh families reliant on food banks for a Christmas dinner.

Glasgow’s biggest hub for the film and TV industries is set to mount a bid to run the vast new studio proposed for Edinburgh’s waterfront.

Formula One legend Mika Hakkinen brought a supercar to Holyrood as he launched a festive campaign urging people to never drink and drive.

People presenting as homeless in Edinburgh are being shipped off to temporary accommodation as far away as Motherwell – amid emergency bed and breakfast use soaring by 14 per cent.

A GROUP of landlords have been banned from letting out their Edinburgh flats on AirBnb after fed-up neighbours complained about noise.

A FAILURE to get to grips with the Capital’s social care crisis could cause “direct harm to people”, the council has been warned.