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Edinburgh Uni to CLOSE at 1pm due to severe weather warning

Wow

Edinburgh just got its first ever RED ALERT from the Met Office for extreme snow

It’s a big coat day folks

All of the best signs from day one of Edinburgh’s pension strikes

All that glitters isn’t USS pension reform

Someone at Edinburgh’s university strikes has made a Three Billboards sign to protest against pensions cuts

There was also booing and shouts of ‘disgusting’ at the mention of the principal’s £342k salary

Someone at Edinburgh’s university strikes has made a Three Billboards sign to protest against pensions cuts

There was also booing and shouts of ‘disgusting’ at the mention of the principal’s £342k salary

Edinburgh: Are you supporting the upcoming strikes? Take our poll

Yay or nay

Lecturer strikes could go on until June, disrupting Edinburgh dissertations and examinations

Better get emailing the uni

‘If you want to support the strike, work from home’ and everything else you need to know about Edi’s upcoming strikes

You asked and EUSA actually delivered

George Square Lecture Theatre to be renamed in honour of Gordon Aikman

The ‘Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre’ recognises the work of the motor neurone disease campaigner

Meet the Edinburgh student who’s been to The Big Cheese over ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY times

He’s now doing his PhD

Meet the Edinburgh student who’s been to The Big Cheese over ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY times

He’s now doing his PhD

Only 11 unis have lower student satisfaction with their mental health services than Edinburgh

According to our Mental Health Rankings 2017

Sir Salter Scott, Grittie McVittie and Ready Spready Go: Exploring Scotland’s ice gritter names

You can even track them online

We want you to write for The Tab Edinburgh this semester

Imagine having the power of deciding who makes Wanker of the Week

BBC confirms there’s going to be a second season of Clique

Filming begins in February

BBC confirms there’s going to be a second season of Clique

Filming begins in February

Controlled explosion carried out by bomb squad near Edinburgh castle

Police are appealing for information

Edinburgh the best place to live if you’re young and broke

*Frantically checks if student finance has gone into my account yet*

Edinburgh Uni didn’t fail a single finalist in 2017

But that doesn’t mean our degrees are guaranteed

A collection of Twitter’s most savage take-downs of Edinburgh Uni students

Um wow ok

A collection of Twitter’s most savage take-downs of Edinburgh Uni students

Um wow ok

Edinburgh’s new vice-chancellor condemned by staff for allegedly failing to ‘protect academic freedom’

He starts in February

A roundup of the BIGGEST things that happened in Edi in 2017

A lot can happen in a year

Edinburgh business exam fiasco as examiner’s phone goes off mid-exam

Do they get disqualified?

Everybody panic because the library AND Hugh Rob are shutting for 24 hours on Sunday

Awks if you have an exam on Monday

The worst crimes people commit in the Edinburgh Uni library lifts

THERE ARE ALREADY SIX PEOPLE IN HERE GET WALKING SUNSHINE

Professor sacked from Heriot-Watt over sexual assault allegations

Police have also launched an investigation

How to deal with your dodgy-ass Edinburgh landlord, by the people who’ve got their deposit back

…or agency, tbh

Nominations are now open for Edinburgh’s Best Lecturer 2017

VOTE NOW

MSPs evacuated from Holyrood after ‘incident’

There are reports that a number of suspicious packages have been found

Britain’s most famous sober raver, Bradley Gunn, is coming to Hectors tonight

He once raved for 38 hours straight completely sober

Tryouts for Edinburgh’s University Challenge team start Wednesday

Could you be the new Ted Loveday?

Police launch murder inquiry after 21-year-old fatally stabbed on Seel Street

The incident occurred in Empire Bar

‘We apologise for these errors, and for the distress caused’: The Times finally apologises to Esme Allman

Her inbox was full of people calling her an ‘ISIS sympathiser’

‘We apologise for these errors, and for the distress caused’: The Times finally apologises to Esme Allman

Her inbox was full of people calling her an ‘ISIS sympathiser’

Take a look at this letter J. R. R. Tolkien sent to Edinburgh Uni just weeks before he died

He wrote that his visit to Edi Uni made him feel like a hobbit

Take a look at this letter J. R. R. Tolkien sent to Edinburgh Uni just weeks before he died

He wrote that his visit to Edi Uni made him feel like a hobbit

Police appealing for witnesses after spate of indecent incidents in New Town

Three incidents took place on Friday morning

Manhunt after 23-year-old woman indecently assaulted near Edinburgh Uni

The attack occurred on Rankeillor Street on the early hours of Sunday morning

If you can’t pass this Edinburgh Uni test, then how are you here?

Get to Napier

Remembering the time Boris Johnson ran to be rector of Edinburgh and came THIRD

A Tory MP has just roasted him about it at the Conservative Party Conference

Remembering the time Boris Johnson ran to be rector of Edinburgh and came THIRD

A Tory MP has just roasted him about it at the Conservative Party Conference

The Tatler Guide to Edinburgh Uni is out and it’s obviously incredibly tragic, darling

“John Burnett is rumoured to be the most expensive digs in Europe, which is why it’s the realm of Russian princesses.”

The Tab’s guide to what’s happening in Edinburgh: Week One

So. much. Kanye.

Two people treated for smoke inhalation after fire starts at Potterrow

It’s unclear whether tonight’s event will still go ahead

Pleasance gym announce extended opening hours from September

Now you’ve got no excuses

Sir David Attenborough is coming to Edinburgh this August

But is there gonna be a Planet Earth 3 tho

Sir David Attenborough is coming to Edinburgh this August

But is there gonna be a Planet Earth 3 tho