Residents of Edinburgh’s last city centre scheme have opened up on how they feel increasingly trapped inside their estate. Dumbiedykes high-rises and tenement ... A 17-year-old student from ...

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"Edinburgh has been the Scottish capital since the 15th century. It has two distinct areas: the Old Town, dominated by a medieval fortress; and the neoclassical New Town, whose development from the ...

A 77-year-old man has been reported to the procurator fiscal after a car crashed into an Edinburgh tenement ... in Cumberland Street in the city's New Town at about 20:30 on Friday night.

After the completion of Gilmerton junction, 1989 saw the finishing touches applied to Edinburgh’s ... to the collapse of a ...

Buried beneath the Old Town of Edinburgh, there's a close (a narrow street lined with residential tenement houses) that was lost to time. Site of an outbreak of the Black Death, this subterranean ...

Central Edinburgh has two different sides: the Georgian New Town is a realm of leafy boulevards, towering townhouses and charming mews, while the medieval Old Town hides myriad closes and ...

Part of the Cheval Collection, which has three luxury all-apartment residences in Edinburgh and nine in London, the Cheval Old Town Chambers building is directly opposite the medieval St Giles ...

Firefighters have been tackling a blaze at a tenement block in Edinburgh after reports of an "explosion". Crews were sent to a sandstone block in Fountainbridge, next to Tollcross Primary school ...

Stretching from the high-on-a-hill Edinburgh Castle to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the Royal Mile is both Old Town Edinburgh's ... This medieval tenement building has been restored back to ...