Charity concert Deacon Blue and Beverly Knight will perform at a charity fund-raiser in Edinburgh that will be attended by special guest, former First Lady Michelle Obama. Comedian Rob Brydon will also provide entertainment at the event on the 17 July at the EICC. Five-time Olympic medallist Dame Katherine Grainger will act as moderator of a […]
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Bridge paint firm makes a splash in new home
Paint firm Craig & Rose held a ‘welcome home’ party at its new showroom in Edinburgh just a short distance from where the company was launched 189 years ago. Famous for supplying the paint for the Forth Bridge, Craig & Rose is now owned by Australia-based DGL International, best known for Dulux. It all began […]
Advertising world facing a day of reckoning
Book review: Frenemies Much has been written about the seismic shifts in the media industry, and here comes some more; a devastating assessment of the fractured state of the advertising industry which is struggling to keep its place at the top table. The new media is a different territory to the one in which Don […]
Stars old and new line-up for Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Programme will embrace a number of topical issues including the #MeToo campaign around sex and consent. Disability, faith and the anniversary of the end of World War One also feature among 3,548 shows. Cerebral palsy sufferer Lee Ridley, winner of Britain’s Got Talent, brings Lost Voice Guy: Inspiration Porn. Fringe debuts come […]
Interview: Gavin MacLennan, Edinburgh Grand
Grand by design It was built in the years straddling the early part of world war two, a neo-classical masterpiece inspired by the bank buildings of 1930s America. After a decade of neglect, during which it was briefly owned by former Hearts FC owner Vladimir Romanov, the former headquarters of the National Bank of Scotland […]