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Going Green: Warmer waters aren’t healthy for our wildlife

Decathlon’s green ‘No tent left behind’ campaign

Electric vehicles are here to stay

Going Green: Driving home case for more electric vehicles

Enjoy the seaside

Going Green: ​Make little changes before visiting the seaside

Cherie Lunghi. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney)

Going Green : Make your barbecue environment friendly

Get out into the great outdoors this Father's Day

Going Green: ​Go back to nature with your dad on Father’s Day

Deborah Meaden (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

Going Green: How awful is climate change for  gardeners?

Gary’s victory - now licence payers must have the same BBC freedom

Pat Phoenix with Tony Booth whom she married in a dramatic hospital wedding after diagnosis with cancer (photo: Getty Images)

Ruling soap queens who reigned Supreme and lit up our television screens

The gallows were once a typical sight (photo: Adobe)

The gruesome business of public execution put under the microscope

(left to right) Francesca Gonshaw, Gordon Kaye and Vicki Michelle of British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! (photo: Getty Images)

Why, after four decades, UK remains occupied by risqué sitcom ’Allo ’Allo!
Rich in innuendo and slapstick, ’Allo ’Allo! was much criticised for its alleged bad taste, although it always claimed to be poking fun at over the top wartime dramas and not at the cruelty of war itself.

New Year tradition of the chimes of Big Ben at midnight (photo: Adobe)

New Year’s customs and traditions are brought to mind as 2023 welcomed

King George VI who made a speech to the nation each Christmas from 1939 exxcept for one year following an operation (photo: Getty Images)

Monarch’s Christmas day speech carried on by our new King Charles III

Try a cheese advent calendar

Slices of great advice to make most of classically Christmas cheese boards

Dave Kelly's father showing his son his old stomping ground

The importance of oral history and family

Winston Churchill carrying out some brick work at his home in Chartwell, Kent, in 1928 (photo: Getty Images)

Chartwell: Where you get to know the man who is behind the myth

In celebration of the black cat - National Black Cat Day (photo: Adobe)

Stating the case for dark felines as treasured pets – National Black Cat Day

Number one in people's affections is Paddington Bear (photo: Getty Images)

National Teddy Bear Day: Britain’s Best Bears

Commons Cranachan at Virgin Hotel Edinburgh's Commons Club Pic: Liam Rudden

Virgin Hotels’ Commons Club has an exclusive touch when it comes to dining

Leaving a dog in a car on a warm day can create a potentially fatal situation (photo: Adobe)

PDSA warn not to keep dogs in locked cars in summer

Blackpool Pleasure Beach's Hot Ice Show - Rapture

The ‘rapture’ of a trip to Blackpool and the world famous Hot Ice Show

PDSA vet nurse Nina Downing answers your pet questions

Forth Awards 2022

Edinburgh's most boisterous awards return with Tony Hadley and dark memories

Pam Aldred prepares to enjoy LNER's luxury afternoon tea as the country whizzes by at 125mph

Edinburgh travel: Spoil yourself with LNER’s 125mph luxury afternoon cream tea

Charlie Spooner and Ed Gamester in Mythos: Ragnarok is coming to the Gilded Balloon Patter House, written by Ed Gamester Pic: Al Veryard

Wrestling fever heads to Edinburgh as knockout show comes to the Festival

Pet Shop Boys' Dreamworld Pic: Liam Rudden

Why ABBA Voyage and Pet Shop Boys' Dreamworld had the tears flowing

Pet Shop Boys Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant performing on the main stage during Edinburgh Hogmanay celebrations on December 31, 2013 Pic Jane Barlow

Pet Shop Boys city legacy, from Fringe to Portaloos blowing along Princes Street

The Fringe brings performers from around the world to Edinburgh

Appeal for Fringe rooms is tone deaf
Having produced shows on, acted in, written about and been immersed in the Edinburgh Fringe for 40 years this year, I have to say I find the constant bleating from southern producers about the shortcomings of the Capital come August tiresome.

United Sex Workers union protest

Edinburgh's sex workers' voices need to be heard too - Liam Rudden

John McGillivray and Liam Rudden, Edinburgh Monarchs' meeting presenters at Armadale Stadium

'What the Fork' Monarchs return and John and Liam are back in The Tower

Ian McKellen as Hamlet ahead of his return to the Edinburgh Fringe Pic by: Alastair Muir/Shutterstock

As festivals ramp up, is city ready to re-embrace world's biggest arts event?

Toyah Willcox, still belting out the hits

How can Ferris Bueller be 60 when in my head I'm still 23?

Liam Rudden decides which suit for a make-over

Slater Menswear comes of age having suited and booted Edinburgh for 21 years

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Nationwide audiences watch Gothic horror filmed at Leith Theatre - Liam Rudden

Liam Rudden with Godmother, Auntie Eileen Kerr

One thing's universal, life's no dress rehearsal - Liam Rudden

Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show is the exception to the rule

Musical theatre audiences should be seen and not heard - Liam Rudden

Once Upon A Time from Six By Nico

Would liver filled doughnuts leave you happy ever after?

The much debated television license

But is it time to scrap the £157.50 TV licence? - Liam Rudden

Hazel O'Conner and Liam Rudden

Feisty and fearless: 80's pop icon Hazel O'Connor faces her biggest battle yet

Edinburgh's King's Theatre, post redevelopment

Scots saving English shows as Edinburgh theatres went dark - Liam Rudden

The 2022 Edinburgh Monarchs - (Back) Lasse Fredriksen, James Sarjeant, Jacob Hook, Paco Castagna (Front) Kye Thomson, Sam Masters, Josh Pickering

Monarchs reveal Championship team for 2022

Edinburgh Castle Fireworks at Hogmanay

Happy New Year: Cheers Edinburgh, what does 2022 hold for you?

Hunt Masters at the start of the Denholm Hunt. (Photo: BILL McBURNIE)

PICTURE SPECIAL: Jed Forest 'Boxing Day' Hunt goes ahead in Denholm

Dark on Netflix

Netflix to the rescue with Dark, Colony and Alice in Borderland

Leah MacRae and Edinburgh's Greg McHugh aka Gary Tank Commander in Aladdin

With Omicron here, how safe do you feel making a trip to the panto?
Have you been to see a musical, a play or a panto recently? Quick question, how safe did you feel being back in a theatre?

20mph zones to continue.

Council officers received online death threats from opponents of 20mph zones

The ice rink on George Street, Edinburgh

Edinburgh's Christmas 2021: Thumbs up or thumbs down?

Weathercote Rig.

Councillors today agreed a site visit to Gattonside amid concern over a proposed...

Libraries are a gateway to adventure

Save our Libraries: Time travel with a library card - Liam Rudden

The old North Trinity Church. (Photo: BILL McBURNIE)

The curtain could be about to rise on a new film studio at a former Kelso church

Peter Duncan and Adam Price as the Ugly Sisters

Nippy, nasty Ugly Sisters are real stars of Cinderella... and must be men

Theatre Square at Hogeweyk dementia village in The Netherlands. (Photo: PAUL TOLENAAR)

Division over £14m dementia village planned for Tweedbank

Kelso High School.

UPDATED: Management team at Jedburgh Grammar School 'unaware' of male pupils all...

Unisex toilets.

Councillors hear of claims that boys at Jedburgh Grammar Campus 'waved sanitary ...

Euan Jardine.

Gender-neutral toilets at Borders schools will 'help reduce chance of bullying'