Wester Hailes

Starcatchers Little Top at Les p’tites tommettes festival in Creil, France

Scottish showcase launches in France with award-winning show from Starcatchers

The classic comedy follows two rebellious youths from Wester Hailes who become highwaymen.

I watched Restless Natives and found out why it's a cult classic

The family of Khasha Smith spoke of their 'nightmare' as they spoke at a press conference on Monday, March 4. Picture: PA

Family's desperate plea for help to find missing mum-of-three

Missing mum-of-three Khasha Smith vanished a few months ago. Police and family are increasingly concerned for her welfare.

What we know so far about missing mum Khasha Smith

Ailsa McNaughton was last seen in Wester Hailes area on Sunday

Police appeal for help to trace missing 32-year-old woman

Alistair Darling in Edinburgh in September 2014

Today’s politicians should look to these honourable men as role models - Susan D...

The scene at Dumbryden Gardens last nights as fire crews tackled the fire.

Fire crews rush to flat fire

Picture Ian Rutherford

Bomb squad carry out controlled explosion at Cramond

An artist's impression of the new Wester Hailes High School. Image: City of Edinburgh Council.

Plans approved for new high school ‘superblock’

Actors Peter Riegert (Mac) and Chris Rozycki (Viktor) star in Bill Forsyth's classic comedy Local Hero, which was partly shot in Pennan, in Aberdeenshire. Picture: Moviestore/Shutterstock

Pop-up cinema screenings to be staged across Edinburgh for the next six months

The street party gets into full swing

Super Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours - Susan Dalgety

Six-month old pup Simon is looking for a forever home in Edinburgh.

Abandoned pup looking for a forever home

These pictures of AirThrill in East Kilbride give an idea of what to expect when the Edinburgh venue opens.

Edinburgh to get new family-friendly Inflatable Park

Now KPMG’s Edinburgh office senior partner, Ms Arnott says she hails from a 'very, very working class background' with money at home very tight. Picture: contributed.

Interview: KPMG exec Arleen Arnott on her vision of a more diverse talent pool

Eryk Jarocki was last seen in Greenacre, Wester Hailes, around 10.45 pm on Wednesday.

Police issue appeal to help trace missing teenager

In the US, many people find themselves forced to live in their cars, like this woman in Santa Barbara, California, in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash (Picture: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

As US-style poverty sees people sleeping in cars, politicians must act

Travelling across the USA four years ago, I was shocked at the number of people, including families, living in their cars.

Susan Dalgety

Edinburgh missing man: Appeal launched to help trace Scott MacKenzie after he was reported missing from the Wester Hailes area of the Capital

Man reported missing in Edinburgh as appeal launched

Magnet fisherman Eddie Wells With Japanese Sword

Magnet fishermen haul Samurai sword and bullets from Union Canal

Kim McAleese is the new director of the Edinburgh Art Festival. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Edinburgh Art Festival: New director wants to see work transforming public space

Crowds enjoying the Edinburgh Mela festival held on Leith Links in 2018

Ten-year masterplan for Leith Links - your views online

The Union Canal will be transformed by artists for this summer's festivals season. Picture: Julie Howden

Canal to be transformed by artists for75th anniversary of Edinburgh's festivals

Now 22, Tegan Reynolds joined Spartans at the age of 15 and has made 100 first-team appearances. Picture: Mark Brown

Spartans midfielder on her football journey, 'best decision' and 100 games

Missing Edinburgh man: Stuart Campbell has been missing from Wester Hailes for over five weeks

Stuart Campbell was reported missing from Edinburgh five weeks ago

Edinburgh missing man Stuart Campbell's mum makes heartbreaking plea for her son to get in touch four weeks after he was last seen in Wester Hailes

Mum makes heartbreaking plea to missing son four weeks after he was last seen

Edinburgh missing person: Man reported missing from Wester Hailes thought to be in the Bathgate area

Man reported missing from Wester Hailes thought to be in the Bathgate area

Edinburgh missing person: Police growing increasingly concerned after man reported missing from Wester Hailes area

Police growing increasingly concerned after man reported missing

An artist's impression of what the flats would look like

Plans submitted for 90 new council flats on derelict land

Proposals for nearly 90 new council flats to be built on derelict land in Wester Hailes are set to be lodged with city planners.

Donald Turvill

John Robertson found the bullets on Saturday

Magnet fisher pulls bullets from Union Canal in Edinburgh

Sophie Clifton, 10, started acting aged six.

New film set in Wester Hailes warns of online grooming danger

Council leader Adam McVey is looking forward to work starting at Wester Hailes

Consultants chosen for Wester Hailes masterplan works

Jodi Andrews in the Scran Cafe kitchen

Day in the Life: Jodi Andrews, 16, Scran Academy programme graduate

Sistema Scotland chief executive Nicola Killean, Rachel Odutona, Big Noise musician Elizabeth McColl, Jaxson Davidson, Alice Ajayi and Benny Higgins, chairman of Sistema Scotland. Picture: Jeff Holmes

Major new music project to 'transform lives' in Edinburgh's Wester Hailes

Jacob Farr 27 with girlfriend Catherine Collins 27

Why are Edinburgh City Council tenants treated as second class citizens?

Concept design of the bridge.

Wester Hailes residents wishes set to feature in Dundee V&A exhibition

Deputy Council Leader Cammy Day vísits Wester Hailes Library for a free, rapid Covid test

Community target testing can play key role in fighting Covid - Cammy Day

Robbie Russell, 25, who was reported missing from the Wester Hailes area of Edinburgh on March 17 (Photo: Police Scotland).

Police growing ‘increasingly concerned’ for Wester Hailes missing man

The well-designed soup-can inspired library which was sadly vandalised (Photo: Little Free Library - Wester Hailes).

Little street libraries springing up around Wester Hailes to improve literacy

Do you recognise any of these pictures?

Photos that take us back to Edinburgh in the 90s

Daniel and Ross Burn out and about in town with Gunther the Bear, who goes everywhere with the pair

Toy cars are the stars of quirky photo project

Pictures of the scene where the crash happened this afternoon

Car 'crashes into a tree' just off Edinburgh City Bypass

The Dove centre distributing vital goods to Marion Robert's

A mural has been commissioned to honour the work of the Dove Centre

Central Library on George IV Bridge is one of the libraries which has reopened Picture: Scott Louden

MSP urges government cash to allow libraries to reopen

A handful of award winners and speakers from the night

Edinburgh neighbourhood centre celebrates young people at film premier

Chris and son Cameron, 6.

Child poverty campaigner hits out at the astronomical price for family swim

Volunteers litter pickers have retrieved a pile of rusted metal from the canal in Wester Hailes.

Huge pile of rusty metal pulled from canal in Wester Hailes

Design for the new development

Council approves plans for new affordable housing development in Wester Hailes

Veronika Necasova: Renewed appeal for Edinburgh woman now missing for two days

Veronika Necasova found: Renewed appeal successful

Bridge 8 community hub has been left devastated.

Wester Hailes fires and canal path assaults 'believed to be linked'

Kieran was last seen leaving an address in the city centre of Edinburgh

'Growing concerns' for welfare of missing man not seen for over two weeks

A mini-maker fayre at the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Picture: Chris Scott

More than 90 per cent of Edinburgh's schools are now involved with the city's fe...

Dynamic Earth is the most successful millennial attraction built outside London (Picture: Phil Wilkinson)

How Edinburgh’s tourism boom helped end mass unemployment in city – Donald Ander...

Many families in Wester Hailes, Granton or Leith are forced to visit food banks just to survive (Picture: Neil Hanna)

Will SNP Government punish Edinburgh for being Edinburgh again? – Susan Dalgety

Around 80,000 people in the Capital live in poverty, with child poverty as high as 39 per cent in Gorgie (pictured) and Sighthill.

'I will have failed Edinburgh people if I can't lift them out of poverty' says c...

Currie Post Office.

Urgent appeal for new Postmaster as Currie Post Office risks closure

Jakub contracted sepsis at 18-months old and lost all fingers, toes and feeling in feet and legs. Three years on the family are trying to raise £60,000 for a life-changing operation in Poland.

Edinburgh boy battling back after sepsis robbed him of fingers and toes