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Morning Briefing: Festival bosses say show must go on after Usher Hall power cut blunder 15 Aug 2012 | 04:13 pm
Festival bosses today said they were confident the rest of their Usher Hall programme would go ahead despite the last-minute cancellation of one of their showpiece events because of a power cut.
Man who plunged through roof dies in hospital 15 Aug 2012 | 03:17 am
A MAN who plunged 20 feet through a roof in Gorgie has died in hospital.
Man convicted of attempted murder two years after South Bridge attack 15 Aug 2012 | 01:07 am
AN IT specialist has been convicted of attempted murder following an attack on a man returning from a night out watching international DJ Eddie Halliwell.
Mother and baby taken to hospital after deliberate fire 15 Aug 2012 | 01:07 am
A MOTHER and her three-month-old baby were taken to hospital after a fire was started deliberately at a block of flats.
Man could face jail after admitting starting Tollcross flat fire 15 Aug 2012 | 12:05 am
A MAN who sparked a blaze that saw 15 people rescued from a smokelogged tenement with another leaping from a third storey window could be facing jail after admitting he started the fire.
Fan rushed to hospital after roof fall drama 14 Aug 2012 | 07:00 pm
A PROBE was under way today after a man being pursued by police after a pub fight plunged 20ft through a roof as he tried to escape.
Shoppers turn their backs on ‘dirtiest street in Scotland’ 14 Aug 2012 | 07:00 pm
LEITH Walk has been branded the “dirtiest high street in Scotland” after new figures revealed it is being shunned by shoppers.
Zimmer OAP mugged on his doorstep 14 Aug 2012 | 06:39 pm
A GRANDFATHER who walks with a Zimmer frame today vowed he would not be left a prisoner in his home despite being robbed by two “despicable” thugs on his own doorstep.
Theft victim traces bike with little help from social media 14 Aug 2012 | 06:38 pm
IT took dozens of texts, a quick-thinking bus driver and the power of the social networks, but there is no making a twit of Donald Pyper.
Potential buyers offer hope for under-threat Hall’s plant 14 Aug 2012 | 04:04 pm
WORKERS at the under-threat Hall’s of Broxburn meat processing factory have been given fresh hope after it emerged two potential buyers had expressed an interest in taking it over.