The Edinburgh Report

The Edinburgh Report

The local news website for Edinburgh. Online, in print, audio and video. We cover all the news about the capital of Scotland that we can get our hands on.

Episodes

Fireside chat with Alex Winter of Duck & Waffle

February 2, 2025 • 14 mins

We met the General Manager of Duck & Waffle Edinburgh, Alex Winter, to find out how the restaurant will celebrate its second birthday. 

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Cammy Day Council Leader Edinburgh on Visitor Levy

August 14, 2024 • 2 mins
A paper has been published ahead of a council meeting next week which outlines how the council will collect and spend the visitor levy. The Scottish Government passed the necessary legislation earlier this year.
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Jyll Bradley artist

November 27, 2021 • 10 mins
We explore the new sculpture at Fruitmarket - Pardes by Jyll Bradley --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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Cllr Ellie Bird speaks about the Scottish Youth Parliament elections

November 8, 2021 • 8 mins
Cllr Bird is the Young People’s Champion and very much involved with the Scottish Youth Parliament and the elections which begin on 8 November 2021 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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Speaking to Michael Jenkins of Forest Trends

November 2, 2021 • 4 mins
Michael Jenkins President of Forest Trends on the COP26 announcement of $20 billion on deforestation and land degradation --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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Meeting people on a Pilgrimage for COP26

October 25, 2021 • 15 mins
A walk is taking place from Dunbar to Glasgow in time for COP26. We joined the walk just after it left the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and went with them as far as Granton Castle Walled Garden where the Keeper of the Soil, artist Natalie Taylor, collected a small sample of soil in her hand made cape with its special pockets. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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Speaking with Ali Pretty of Kinetika about the Beach of Dreams flags

October 22, 2021 • 7 mins
Ali Pretty describes herself as an artist activist and has just joined the Pilgrimage to COP26 in Edinburgh with 500 flags made as part of the Beach of Dreams project. The flags will be displayed at St Mary’s Cathedral in Palmerston Place and will then be carried to Glasgow from Monday morning. Each flag represents a mile of coastline from Lowestoft to Tilbury chosen by one person to explore how we are looking after the coastline t...
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A cycle with Daniel Johnson MSP

October 8, 2021 • 26 mins
The Edinburgh Reporter invited Daniel Johnson MSP for a cycle and a chat about his role in the opposition and also a bit about his constituency of Edinburgh Southern. Despite the rain the chat is sparkling! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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Council moving BioQuarter forward

October 4, 2021 • 11 mins
The council is moving forward with development at BioQuarter with a move to appoint a commercial partner to assist in the next steps. Here we talk to the Council Leader about BioQuarter --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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Meeting Jaxx Waygood a visual artist working with metal

October 4, 2021 • 12 mins
Jaxx Waygood is a visual artist and his artistic and sculptural blacksmithing exhibition is on at the Art & Craft Collective 93 Causewayside in Edinburgh. He is a recent Edinburgh College of Art graduate on the MA programme but has a lot of different past experiences which we talk to him about here - including working on the Lord of the Rings TV series --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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Fire at Earth in Common

September 12, 2021 • 3 mins
Charity Earth in Common has its base at Leith Croft. On Sunday morning they discovered that a fire had destroyed their shed causing about £2,000 of damage. CEO and founder Evie Murray explained to us what had happened. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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Andrea Baker mezzo soprano

August 13, 2021 • 25 mins
Ms Baker is appearing at the Edinburgh International Festival. Here she talks to The Edinburgh Reporter about the show woman:life:song and also about her abhorrence of volunteer labour in the arts world. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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Taking a walk with former councillor and Lord Provost Lesley Hinds

August 9, 2021 • 18 mins
Lesley Hinds is a former councillor and Lord Provost and - in what we think is her legacy project - she is masterminding a community asset transfer and new civic centre in Pennywell and Muirhouse. We had a walk around Macmillan Square to talk about it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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Sara Thomson is founder of Leith Collective

August 9, 2021 • 12 mins
In this episode Sara tells us what motivated her to start Leith Collective and about her role as a Green Ambassador for the UN COP26 Summit --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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The Drem to Gullane path

July 20, 2021 • 39 mins
The 16 year campaign to have a safe cycle and walking route created from Drem to Gullane appears to have hit a wall. Easy Lothian Council suggest it will be another three years before they can start to build it. I met one of the campaigners,Iain Monk, who took me on a cycle along the proposed route to explain the plans in more detail. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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A walk around the new Fruitmarket

July 7, 2021 • 18 mins
In advance of the reopening of Fruitmarket we were invited to have a walk around the new space and the new exhibition created by artist Karla Black in the company of Director, Fiona Bradley. We highly recommend popping in for a look. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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A cycle round Granton with Cllr Cammy Day

June 30, 2021 • 12 mins

The Hidden Door festival is coming to Granton in September and will literally shine a light on an up and coming area of Edinburgh. Cllr Day is both local councillor and Chair of the All Party Oversight Group on the council's £1.3 billion Granton Waterfrot Project.

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Chatting with David Martin of Hidden Door

June 29, 2021 • 18 mins
This year’s Hidden Door Festival is taking place in September in Granton. We were invited to the site for a preview of what will be happening later this year. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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Derryck Reid talks to The Edinburgh Reporter

June 16, 2021 • 32 mins
Professor Reid has been constantly against the Spaces for People measures. We met him on the side of Lanark Road --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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Speaking with Chris Young of BEST and Low Traffic Corstorphine

June 16, 2021 • 20 mins
Chris Young speaks to us about the council’s plans for the future of the Spaces for People measures which have been installed around schools, in shopping streets for leisure access and also segregated cycle lanes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinburgh-reporter/message
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