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10:22am, 1st August, 2019

Laughter in dark places at most international Edinburgh Festival yet

The world's biggest celebration of the performing arts begins on Friday in Edinburgh, with its most international line-up yet grappling with issues every bit as weighty as those that set the tone for the city's first festival in 1947.

Booming Edinburgh will be first UK city to introduce a tourist tax

10:58am, 7th February, 2019

UK

Booming Edinburgh will be first UK city to introduce a tourist tax

Scotland's capital Edinburgh is to become the first British city to introduce a tourist tax to try to better manage the impact of swelling visitor numbers and booming hotel occupancy, its council said on Thursday.

Thousands march through Edinburgh to back Scottish independence

7:36pm, 6th October, 2018

UK

Thousands march through Edinburgh to back Scottish independence

Tens of thousands marched through the streets of Edinburgh on Saturday to show support for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom, a cause Scottish nationalists say has drawn strength from Britain's struggles to leave the European Union.

Edinburgh festival authors face 'Kafkaesque' UK visa process

2:03pm, 10th August, 2018

UK

Edinburgh festival authors face 'Kafkaesque' UK visa process

Foreign authors invited to Edinburgh to appear in the world's biggest arts festival are being put off by a British visa process which organizers say is humiliating and Kafkaesque.

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