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The best of the Edinburgh Inquirer 2025

The Big Boxing Day Quiz

Inquirer Christmas campaign: 'I’ve worked with nurses at risk of becoming homeless'

The ex-council leader, a fake name and a failed hit on a former party rebel

Meet the superstars of the Edinburgh tattoo world

A quiet revolution in democracy is taking place in Leith

Housing for whom? The battle over student accommodation in the Capital

Student flats firm snaps up landmark former Scottish Widows HQ

Inquirer Christmas campaign: The difference between a happy home and life on the streets

Police investigating alleged sexual exploitation within city's care services

The night runners of the Pentlands

Showpiece 'green' district heating plan abandoned for city's Waterfront

Meet the Spiders for Ukraine

Inquirer Christmas campaign: Creating the networks of caring that help prevent homelessness

Johnson & Johnson promised to look after their staff. That rings hollow for thousands of Lothians pensioners.

Bid to turn Edinburgh into one of the world's leading city economies

Your ultimate guide to an independent Edinburgh Christmas

Inquirer Christmas campaign: Help us support Cyrenians vital work with city homeless

We're one of the most congested cities in the UK. Here's how to tackle that.

City to review AI data centre decision amid environmental concerns

Colonel Anne: The forgotten Jacobite heroine lying in an unmarked grave in Leith

‘It needs to stop’: Rogue 'tartan tat' shops blamed for blighting Princes Street

Swimming champion's fight for time highlights life and death struggle

City serves tram lawyers with biggest compensation claim in Scottish legal history

‘We’re not vanilla’: Starting a new creative life after 50

The Summerhall developers and a promise undelivered after 20 years

The German volunteers uncovering the poignant story of Edinburgh’s last war dead

The not-so-fast and the furious: What's going wrong at billion pound video game maker?

What went so right on Bonfire Night?

'No selfies': A spotters guide to the east coast's seal pups

The final whistle sounds at the city's biggest indoor football centre

Is the city getting tough with its Christmas Markets?

How to build a City of Literature: ‘There was no blueprint on how to do it’

‘It’s similar to arriving at a Taylor Swift concert, 20 hours a day, 8 months a year’

‘I had been rejected 90 times and didn’t think I’d ever find a job’

Emergency housing fund doubles, but it’s not enough

Where there’s smut there’s brass

University staff braced for earthquake as financial troubleshooter drafted in

The Black Sheep of Bruntsfield?

Huge city data centres told they don't need environmental assessments

‘Like a huge, walnut, mahogany, musical hug’

Are the Capital’s green spaces as green as they used to be?

The "secrets" behind that seemingly endless scaffolding on George IV Bridge

‘Racism, toxicity and twerking‘: What is going on at Historic Environment Scotland?

The former hospital that treated Owen and Sassoon is helping veterans heal again

The Capital has adopted the UK’s toughest ban on fossil fuel ads

Mapping the radical changes in the way we use the city's roads

‘Oasis put £250,000 in our tills, but we still didn’t make a profit’

The world’s second oldest major football rivalry resumes in the Capital tonight

340-year wait for a Royal Mile statue of a woman ends in controversy

Helsinki just had a year with no road deaths

Labour suspends city MSP as party's woes deepen

'I’ve lost more than 150 members of my family’

There is a mental health crisis among our young people

Checking up on the work of all your Lothian list MSPs

The flood of city shoppers heading to Glasgow has stopped

How Polish artists are shaping the Capital's next generation

One of the first Dnipro Kids has been killed in action. This is his story.

'We can't just build our way out of this crisis. It needs more.'

Swinney set to bail out proposed ‘world class’ concert hall in cash crisis

Homes, gardens, sheds and even staircases are turned into mini galleries

Domestic abuse victims calling up to 50 firms to get a divorce lawyer

What your MSPs have prioritised since they were elected

Allez le Tour! City finally set to agree to host world's greatest cycle race

Inside the Library of Mistakes

Was ‘traffic-free’ Cowgate the pedestrian paradise we dreamed of?

‘They have very much become part of the fabric of our community’

Care charities live to fight another day after cuts climbdown

The towering achievement of 'the Mick Jagger of the mountains'

Battery-powered trams, cycling squeezed and a cash conundrum

10,000 door-knocks, prosecutions and an untamed holiday let black market

The £2 billion question for city's tram plan

Rules? There are no rules. Just turn up and play

First e-bikes, next e-scooters? Edinburgh to consider testing more electric transport

Genius of Muriel Spark to be celebrated with major Gardens' sculpture

Councillors' boozy parties to be banned

Are wildfires the new normal for Edinburgh and the Lothians?

See you in court: Community charity launches legal challenge to city's social care cuts

Artists protest as the Fringe partners with generative AI specialist

Want a council house? Definitely maybe in 2027

What's pure joy? What's set the grapevine buzzing? It's the early hits of the Fringe

Dazzling on stage is harder after getting up at 7am to make coffees all day

Leading charities warn of legal action over city's social care cuts

The world’s biggest windfarm versus the Forth's seabirds

She changed the bread shelves in your local supermarket

The Fringe venues putting more money in the pockets of new comedians

How a former New York mayor is helping reshape council services in Edinburgh

Show time! It's the Fringe, with added Oasis

'I've proved it's not the end. You can turn it around'

First year report cards on your city MPs

The home improvement scheme making some people homeless

How Edinburgh will power the UK’s AI revolution

The Fringe shows we'd bet the house will be your favourites this summer

They came by bus, scooter and Rolls Royce to get their hair cut by Charlie Miller

Almost £1 million reported stolen from Scots online is just "tip of the iceberg"

The Gold Brothers versus the city council

Has Leith's latest culinary star taken leave of his senses?

Roll with it? What hosting Oasis in the middle of the Fringe will do to Edinburgh

Keeping up with the Burnhams

From ‘traffic sewer’ to Capital's car-free music street: Cowgate’s pedestrian summer

Bikes, breakfast beer, midnight chips and 'no dickheads'

The girl who became one of Britain's great Arctic adventurers

Party, protest and no politicians please

Never had it so good? Edinburgh economy outperforms London for first time

'Everyone should be able to sit with the genius of humankind'

The £2 billion potential of district heating systems for the Lothians

How one woman's battle for Hope can help support tens of thousands

Twice as many concerts, £2m on loos, plus NFL, UFC and darts (but no football): Murrayfield’s 'bold' future

How family fields in Ecuador inspired 'Britain's best food attraction'

Finding hope among Edinburgh's vanishing bowling greens

How data will reshape George Street for the 21st century

Everybody's building (mainly student flats and hotels)

Young Inquirer journalist gains exciting role - and it is thanks to you

Bringing 'the people's theatre' back to life

Councillors told to tackle 'out of control' drinking culture

Edinburgh's bakery star on overcoming MS to build a foodie institution

Pedestrian-friendly George St moves closer as cost of huge revamp falls

A beginner's guide to the Hidden Door festival

Edinburgh’s answer to London’s ‘revolutionary’ V&A Storehouse stalls

The under-the-radar retail king of the Royal Mile

JK Rowling and the 'secrets' of the Edinburgh Award

'She never married because all the good men died there'

'This isn’t giving them an option – it’s shoving them out the door'

Will Rose Street always be the city centre Cinderella?

Return of the congestion charge?

The history (and tragedy) of Lochend's sunken island

Emergency service for citizens in crisis gets funding boost

Community mental health services face being "dismantled" in the Capital

The 'premiumisation' of Edinburgh

The imposter invading the Water of Leith's banks

Revealed: How knife crime is surging in the Capital as youth services are cutback

'Sir Tom was more than a business icon, he was generous with his time'

The unstoppable resurgence of the Fringe

Creating Scotland's first fully digital museum on Leith's Shore

'Just like this building, our aspirations for the future are enormous'

Why financial services are still the biggest deal in Edinburgh

Visitor Levy to fund up to 1,600 homes reserved for tourism workers

The Edinburgh schoolboy who revolutionised trad music

'It’s an extra tool in the box, but it won’t solve our biggest problems'

The Dog and Cat Home that cares for people too

Filling Edinburgh's 'Mary Celeste' council HQ

Opening the doors of Edinburgh Filmhouse

Council to take radical action to meet its legal obligations to city's homeless

'Third sector organisations are remarkably resilient and adaptable'

Police vow as ‘drug gang war’ escalates

The most Wuthering Heights day ever

Ever been to a Hungarian ceilidh?

Revealed: LEZ is pushing us towards healthier commutes

Could Glasgow Airport eventually close in favour of Edinburgh?

The greatest Edinburgh chef you've never heard of

For justice to be done, it needs to be seen to be done

Is the city too timid when it comes to saving historic buildings?

Millions of meals will flow from new depot to tackle city food poverty

‘Failure’ or ‘finest on earth’? The Scott Monument story is worthy of a novel

Hospitality businesses feel betrayed by Holyrood on business rates

‘Although the diagnosis was expected, I did have a wee cry to myself’

Donald Trump's surprising impact on Edinburgh tourism

It's not amateur theatre, it's just unpaid

Making tourism a force for good in the Capital

Opening up the city's great outdoors

What’s wrong with Edinburgh's Elsie Inglis statue?

‘If the cyclists weren't coming to us, we wouldn't be here’

Park life: How a volunteer army helped make our green spaces the best in Scotland

'Princes Street is fixed. You just can't see it yet'

Cappucino al fresco? Sorry, not till after 9am

‘A place where dreams are made and broken’

Unconventional? There's little to scare the cultural horses

Unique new fund that aims to transform the fight against poverty in Edinburgh

Family loss inspires city MP to transform rare cancers research

Keeping the spirit of city arts hero Helen Crummy alive

'We fear Princes Street will end up like Leith Walk'

'The problem was so bad in some stairs the Royal Mail had to stop delivering'

City declares war on shopfront pavement clutter

Forget Google reviews, how about these for truly great Edinburgh pubs

The Michelin star effect

‘You can make as little as £3 in an hour’: Inside Edinburgh's gig economy

City-wide fireworks ban to be considered after violence and zoo deaths

'I want to give something back and help people in Edinburgh'

Charity detectives finding "buried treasure" to fund good works

Why are things turning sour at Edinburgh University?

City backs record council tax rise to protect essential services

Still radical after 100 years: Edinburgh’s most influential forgotten thinker

What would you do if your cancer test came back positive?

Haemorrhaging £20,000 a day and no end to losses in sight: What’s gone wrong at Hibs?

Sports clubs told to find volunteer lifesavers as pools cut cover

‘I shall be buried there, when I have given what the others gave’

What would an Edinburgh designed for women look like?

Scotland may be leading a green tech revolution, but at what cost to communities?

Seriously? A cycle route down Rose Street

Green shoots: How the Botanics is picking up the pieces after Storm Eowyn

'She loved the Usher Hall, opera and creme de menthe'

Edinburgh’s Third Sector is once again facing a cliffhanger

Charlotte Square going back to 60s with 'levelling down' plan

Streetreads: 'Because everyone deserves the escape of a good book'

14 life-changing months: Burns in Edinburgh

Are the wraps about to come off a long-running Capital saga?

Super-duper exascale computer - and a university financial crisis

From teenage hits to going solo in your 30s

Edinburgh overtakes Glasgow as Scotland's most cosmopolitan city

£5 million boost for Edinburgh's stunning National Centre for Music

Culture cash to IT jitters: What the 'tourist tax' will mean for Edinburgh

The Edinburgh man who accepted Napoleon's surrender

The dirty truth about E coli in the bathing waters at Portobello

'Edinburgh is bucking the trend where city centres are being decimated'

Pharmacies running out of flu vaccine as cases soar

'It's hard to pull entire families from under the rubble'

'One patient was wheeled in on a hospital bed… now she lives independently'