The Edinburgh Inquirer

“Don’t feel that you’re going to say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing or not feel welcome. It’s a house of God. It’s not just for the people that pray here. It’s for everyone.”
Read about the venues opening their doors next weekend, including Edinburgh Central Mosque:

‘Doors Open Day is definitely more important this year’ Mosque prepares to welcome hundreds of curious visitors months after city’s anti-Muslim terror attacks

Did you know that parts of the James Webb telescope were made on top of Blackford Hill? Edinburgh, and the UK, is a world leader in particle physics and astronomy- but for how much longer?

Scientists warn of risk to Edinburgh’s world-leading physics and astronomy research Astronomer Royal for Scotland says funding being diverted away from science “that answers big questions”

Harvey Nichols arguably changed the fate of Edinburgh's East End when it arrived in 2002- what will become of it now?

The rise and fall of Harvey Nicks The Edinburgh store may be the last one standing outside London - but for how long?

For many a dozy dog walker, the parade of misfits marching across the causeway, clad in tight tartan trousers, busted black boots and shredded vests, will no doubt paint a perplexing picture. But for devoted pilgrims, this is an annual tradition - read about Cramond Island's DIY punk festival in today's long read:

The sedate Firth of Forth island that is forever punk Conrad Frain visits Cramond Island of Punk to celebrate 30 years of its D-I-Y cultural ethos

It's been welcomed by some and called "hardly worth bothering with" by others. What do you think of the Council's new "ambitious pragmatic" plan for Princes Street and the gardens?

A beautiful Spring evening in Princes Street Gardens? Count me in Plus: Your cultural highlights for the week ahead and what you might have missed

Did you know that in Edinburgh, walking and cycling already prevent nearly 1,400 illnesses a year and deliver £336.7 million in benefit?
You loved part one of our series on making Edinburgh a cycling city - here is part two:
Spokes, the Lothian Cycle Campaign Walk Wheel Cycle Trust Scotland

Fewer commuters drive here than in any other Scottish city Award-winning engineer Corey Boyle on how to build on Edinburgh’s success to create a cycling city

Whisper it, but it's possible we may have passed peak Fringe.

Ticket sale records may have been broken, but artists and venues have been complaining about curiously empty halls.

Will Quinn investigates.

Don’t believe the hype. Peak Fringe may actually have passed Will Quinn on the glory and frustrations of the Fringe - and its curiously empty halls

The headlines in your essential Edinburgh round-up:

🚊 The curious case of Dominic Cummings and the Edinburgh trams campaign

👓 Is Burnhamism coming to Edinburgh?

🎭 Cockburn Association backs Festivals in Visitor Levy row.

Much more to read here 👇

The curious case of Dominic Cummings and the Edinburgh trams campaign Plus: Is Burnhamism coming to Edinburgh? Not quite

With a price tag of up to £2.9bn for a line from Granton to Little France via Princes Street, expanding Edinburgh’s tram line always seemed like a vision that was a long way off.

But are the changes John Swinney announced this week about to change all that? And what might that mean for controversial plans to build trams along the Roseburn Path?

Suddenly, Edinburgh’s £2bn tram extension may not be a pipedream Plus: A sneak peak of Porty Art Walk and your cultural highlights of the week ahead

“It does sometimes seem like there’s two Leiths that walk past each other on the street,”

Is Leith gentrified? What does that even mean? We took our time to understand the changes in the port district, from the perspective of Leithers themselves.

Two Leiths, separated by the price of a coffee Life in the port district, “gentrification” and the real story behind the housing data