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Ahir Shah arrived at Edinburgh with a work-in-progress but leaves as comedy champ

The Edinburgh comedy award-winning show Ends is a superb set about Shah’s grandfather, the standup’s imminent wedding and multicultural Britain

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh festival fringe: Ahir Shah’s Ends wins best show at comedy awards

32-year-old comedian whose set explores race, class and migration becomes first British-Asian to take prize

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Oslo Philharmonic/Mäkelä; Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou – review

Usher Hall; The Queen’s Hall, EdinburghKlaus Mäkelä leads skilled versions of Sibelius and Mahler, while Yuja Wang brings warmth and Ravel and Andsnes and Chamayou tackle Schubert and Kurtág

The Guardian - UK

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Travel chaos kicks off bank holiday weekend as British Airways and easyJet cancel dozens of flights

Exclusive: Thousands stranded overnight, with some easyJet passengers from Rhodes routed back to Gatwick via Edinburgh and Bristol

The Independent UK

Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show review – helter-skelter hour of fun

The Edinburgh comedy award nominee dials up the silly to 11 as he delivers a series of shambolic gags

The Guardian - UK

‘I used to get in role by harassing my girlfriend’: the risky brilliance of playing anti-woke characters

Edinburgh fringe comics portraying cancelled standups and rightwing politicians talk about the dangers and successes of their satire

The Guardian - UK

Train strikes and cancelled flights spell Bank Holiday travel chaos

Thousands of passengers affected by BA cancellations at Heathrow and easyJet disruption at Gatwick

The Independent UK

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How to spend a day in Portobello, Edinburgh’s swinging seaside suburb

Quirk and elegance are balanced in this beachside stretch of Scotland’s capital, where Suzy Pope discovers an on-trend food scene, convivial drinking dens and plenty of places to shop

The Independent UK

Edinburgh Fringe 2023: the best theatre and comedy coming to London

For Londoners unable to make it to the biggest arts festival in the world, here’s our guide to our favourite shows travelling to the capital

Evening Standard

Met Office issues yellow thunderstorm warning for parts of Scotland

The Met Office warning is in place for North East and East of Scotland including Aberdeenshire, Fife and Edinburgh.

The National (Scotland)

Thousands of bank holiday travellers have flights cancelled on busiest day of year for airlines

Disgruntled passengers report missing weddings and birthday celebrations

Evening Standard

Travel chaos kicks off bank holiday weekend as British Airways and easyJet cancel dozens of flights

Exclusive: Thousands stranded overnight, with some easyJet passengers from Rhodes routed back to Gatwick via Edinburgh and Bristol

The Independent UK

When the Apple Ripens: Peter Howson at 65 review

Peter Howson is an artist who has spent much of his life “tussling with the beast inside”, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. Born in London in 1958 and brought up in Glasgow, he immediately “stood out” when he first began exhibiting his work in the mid-1980s. For one…

The Week

Edinburgh Trams fined £240,000 over ‘avoidable’ death of pedestrian

Bus driver Carlos Correa was hit by a tram in September 2018 at the Saughton Mains crossing – the scene of a near miss two years earlier.

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Travelodge hotels sold out for Taylor Swift’s 2024 UK Eras tour

Hotel chain says rooms in Edinburgh, Liverpool and Cardiff already fully booked ahead of pop star’s summer performances

The Independent UK

World must shun new coal-fired power stations, warns climate envoy John Kerry

He was speaking at the first Scottish Global Dialogues in Edinburgh on Thursday.

The Guardian - UK

Ahir Shah: Ends review – superb show assails heartstrings and funny bone

Written in the shadow of grief and nominated for the Edinburgh comedy award, this barnstorming set takes in race, class and migration

The National (Scotland)

Humza Yousaf pledges 'absolute solidarity with Ukraine' on Independence Day

HUMZA Yousaf has taken part in a wreath-laying ceremony in Edinburgh to commemorate Ukraine’s Independence Day.

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The Independent UK

Corbyn: I hope indyref2 will happen soon and Labour should support it

The former party leader was speaking at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The National (Scotland)

Edinburgh council leader backtracks from support of short-term let deadline extension

THE leader of City of Edinburgh Council has appeared to back an extension of the deadline for short-term let operators to apply for a licence -…

The Guardian - UK

Sherlock Holmes at Hogwarts and ‘solve-along’ Murder She Wrote: bizarre fringe parodies

On Edinburgh fringe stages, pop is eating itself with a series of pastiches and tributes that riff on TV hits and surreal celebrity reimaginings

The Independent UK

Special envoy Kerry says 1.5C target still ‘doable’ but will be ‘very difficult’

US climate envoy John Kerry spoke as he visited Edinburgh for the first in a new series of lectures on the climate crisis.

Evening Standard

Josh Kerr stuns Jakob Ingebrigtsen to win 1500m World Championship gold

Josh Kerr had pledged to keep the 1500metre world title in Britain, Scotland and Edinburgh, and duly delivered on the promise.

The Guardian - UK

BBC too worried about ‘avoiding offence’, says Louis Theroux

Documentary maker tells Edinburgh TV festival he fears broadcaster is playing it safe after ‘volleys of criticisms’

The Guardian - UK

ITV boss warns against pressure to end careers in wake of Phillip Schofield crisis

Kevin Lygo tells Edinburgh television festival broadcaster will publish independent review into presenter’s departure

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