Unlike the Loony Dook at South Queensferry, the Portobello or "Porty" Dook has always been a free event that takes place at Portobello's long, sandy beach. Participants meet at the foot of Bath Street ...

Extreme weather may have shut down the main Hogmanay events last year - for the third time in the thirty year festival - but plans are going ahead for Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2025-2026. Traditionally, ...

The Torchlight Procession - returning in 2025 - is the opening event in the annual Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations with thousands of torchbearers creating a "river of fire" from The Meadows through ...

Stornoway-based folk rockers Peat and Diesel will be bringing their home-spun, Western Isles rock to Edinburgh’s Hogmanay for the first time on the 30th. Described as a Scottish Pogues, the threesome ...

The ancestor of the only survivor of a historic tragedy at the Isle of May lighthouse recently paid a visit to her family's home. Susan Ciccatelli, from Pennsylvania in the USA, is the great, great, ...

MagicFest, also known as the Edinburgh International Magic Festival, launches on Friday with more mystifying and spellbinding performances from top magicians, mind-readers, and illusionists. This ...

A Christmas Day Bank Holiday takes place on the 25th December if it's a weekday. If Christmas Day is on the weekend - Christmas Day 2027, for example, is on a Saturday - then the bank holiday takes ...

The Winter Solstice, the point at which we are tilted furthest away from the Sun in Earth's Northern hemisphere, is at 3.03pm on Sunday, 21st December in 2025. If you want to catch the fall and rise ...

Based on the Gwangju Democratic Uprising of 1980 in South Korea, when students and citizens protested for freedom with thousands losing their lives or receiving injuries, this production is a quietly ...

Given the maelstrom of disinformation and growing tension on the world stage, this year’s 2025 International Festival theme of The Truth We Seek is a timely one. EIF Director Nicola Benedetti calls it ...

He survived the infamous Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and went on to become the longest-reigning monarch in Scotland's history. Now, over 400 years later, King James VI of Scotland and James I of England is ...

Ed McVey (Tom Ripley), Bruce Herbelin-Earle (Dickie Greenleaf), Maisie Smith (Marge Sherwood), Christopher Bianchi (Herbert Greenleaf / Roverini), Cary Crankson (Freddie Miles / Alvin McCarron / ...