
Fire crews race to Cowgate as smoke seen streaming out of popular Edinburgh bar
Popular craft beer bar OX184 was seen with smoke coming from its roof this afternoon

JK Rowling defends ban on trans women at her Edinburgh rape crisis centre
The author responded to an accusation that she opened Beira’s place ‘to exclude women that are trans’

University of Dundee to scale back job cuts after union backlash
The university will take an ‘alternative pathway’ to solving its financial crisis

‘A meaningful step’: Edinburgh University returns Indigenous skulls to Japan after 100 years
The skulls had been in the university’s collection since 1913 and were taken during Japan’s colonisation of Ainu lands

Edinburgh University denies buying former Scottish Widows building amid funding crisis
Unions have called for urgent clarity after the university published an ‘incorrect’ memo stating they had purchased this iconic A-listed office block

Students at Edinburgh Uni halls told mouse in kitchen is ‘not legally a landlord’s problem’
Residents paying up to £8,750 a year were advised to wipe surfaces with peppermint oil and were warned they could be fined

UCU ballot for strikes at Edinburgh University following ‘unnecessary’ budget cuts
The union warns of possible industrial action after Sir Peter Mathieson refuses to rule out compulsory redundancies

Heriot-Watt’s £1,500 ‘Travel Home’ bursary only offered to rUK students, excluding Scots and internationals
The automatic bursary is not available to Scottish, EU or international students

Missing murderer serving life sentence re-arrested on Edinburgh bus service
Ray McCourt was arrested by officers coming off the number five service on Leith Walk