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Journalist at BBC Scotland // All views my own // Got a story? Contact me ✉️: james.delaney@bbc.co.uk

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'No further action' over man killed by bus in Edinburgh Michael Leneghan died after being struck by a bus in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh in November last year.

'No further action' over man killed by bus in Edinburgh

10.11.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Scottish runner finishes ultra-marathon two hours ahead of competitors Anna Rutherford finished so far ahead in the Bamburgh to Edinburgh race that she was home by the time her rivals crossed the finish line.

'I sang Dolly Parton to win 100-mile ultra-marathon'

20.07.2025 16:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Do you have a story from Edinburgh, Fife and east Scotland to share with BBC News? Get in touch with journalists in Edinburgh, Fife and the east of Scotland with your story ideas.
01.07.2025 14:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Edinburgh University returns indigenous Ainu skulls to Japan Three skulls donated to the university by a Scottish doctor in 1913 have been returned to Hokkaido.

Edinburgh University returns indigenous skulls to Japan

01.05.2025 08:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is Scotland the world's real home of football? A historian believes the origins of the modern game lie on farmland in Kirkcudbrightshire.

Football's coming home...or maybe it was here all along

25.04.2025 12:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Edinburgh flat owners face huge council retrofit bills Homeowners in one of Edinburgh's most deprived areas face huge bills for retrofit work carried out by the council.

'It will take me 20 years to pay repair bill imposed by council.'

21.03.2025 09:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Prankster sends Glasgow runners on 2.5km detour during race About 30 runners in the Castlemilk trail race were sent in the wrong direction by someone posing as a marshal.

Runners at a trail race in Glasgow were sent in the wrong direction by a prankster who impersonated a marshal and buried signs marking the course

18.02.2025 13:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Edinburgh flats living in the shadow of Trainspotting Tenants in Leith's

'Our home is not respected because of Trainspotting'

14.02.2025 08:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why is a flower that smells like rotting flesh so popular? Thousands have flocked to Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Gardens to get a whiff of the 'world's smelliest plant'.

'Cheese, fish and rotten onions'

The corpse flower that smells like rotting flesh

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31.12.2024 10:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I tried to secretly dump mum's creepy doll - then it went viral Nathalie Ramirez thought she had seen the last of 'Hannah' when she gifted it to an Edinburgh charity shop.

'I tried to secretly dump mum's creepy doll, then it went viral'

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31.12.2024 10:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Fife footballer who became a Japanese wrestling champion Jack Morris swapped the pitch for the ring after becoming disillusioned with Scottish football.

From Central Park to the Tokyo Dome...

The Fife footballer who became a Japanese wrestling champion

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31.12.2024 10:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Falkirk and North Lanarkshire t-shirts become fashion hits in Japan A Tokyo-based brand has launched a collection featuring the names of Scottish local authorities.

'Will the fashion conscious in Kyoto be wearing Kilmarnock?'

Falkirk and North Lanarkshire T-shirts become a hit in Japan

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31.12.2024 10:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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'We live aboard an Edinburgh Bus on an Australian beach' Kim Ricardo and Ted Dwight fell in love with the 1966 Lothian Bus after spotting it for sale online.

🧵 Some stuff I wrote over the past year, starting with the Edinburgh Lothian Bus parked on an Australian beach

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31.12.2024 10:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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