1+ day, 19+ min ago   (106+ words) Debate Night – The NEN The NEN - North Edinburgh News BBC Scotland’s Debate Night is coming to Edinburgh on the evening of Wednesday the 23rd of September – and local people are being invited to take part. The programme, hosted by Stephen Jardine,…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (854+ words) TAKE UP WOULD SAVE NHS AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES ALMOST £1 BILLION New research from national charity Independent Age shows that full take-up of three key financial entitlements could lift 280,000 older people out of poverty across the UK, reducing pensioner poverty…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (483+ words) “This week sees an unusual – but vitally important – visitor to Leith. “Knife Angel has been installed at Kirkgate, a huge 27ft statue constructed with 100,000 knives and bladed weapons that have been confiscated by police forces from all over the UK. Raising…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (399+ words) First Minister John Swinney has written to Prime Minister Andy Burnham regarding his comments on the constitutional future of Scotland. The First Minister invited the PM to meet to turn the accepted principle into a legal mechanism for a referendum....

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1098+ words) Tracy Gilbert MP has written to councillors ahead of the City of Edinburgh Council Transport and Environment Committee considering the city’s future tram network, warning Councillors that any moves to scrap tram proposals to Granton would entrench inequality and poverty…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (222+ words) The 2025 PISA study found that Scotland has held a competitive international position, as reading and maths have declined across the OECD as a whole. Scotland’s maths performance was similar to the OECD average and similar to the 2022 survey. The PISA…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (549+ words) Former high profile MSPs told the think tank in a series of “exit interviews” that the parliament is not living up to its consensus-building potential, contributing to key targets being missed. It is not just the public who are deeply…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (549+ words) Former high profile MSPs told the think tank in a series of “exit interviews” that the parliament is not living up to its consensus-building potential, contributing to key targets being missed. It is not just the public who are deeply…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (799+ words) Speaking at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry today (Monday 7 September), the Chancellor laid out how he will take an axe to delays holding back growth, from backing British business and giving local leaders more power, to clearing away the…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (162+ words) two mean sought – The NEN The NEN - North Edinburgh News POLICE in Edinburgh have released images of two men they believe can assist with their investigation after a 24 year-old man was seriously assaulted on Princes Street around 2.35am on Saturday, 1 August,…...