Tag: Edinburgh

• Tuesday, December 16th 2014 - 17:58 UTC

  Moving Centenary Tribute to Capital's Heroes of the World War One

  

  A commemoration of Edinburgh’s own heroes of the First World War – including a professional footballer with Hearts who was killed in action on the Somme – has taken place at Waverley Station today (Tuesday 16 December 2014).

• Tuesday, October 8th 2013 - 17:20 UTC

  London launches paper warning on defence income lost and costs for an independent Scotland

  

  A Scotland analysis paper on Defense, published on Tuesday, highlights the extent to which an independent Scotland would no longer benefit from the £34 billion annual UK defense budget, one of the largest in the world.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2012 - 05:44 UTC

  Edinburgh the most welcoming UK airport; Paris and Moscow the rudest in Europe

  

  Luton is the UK’s most unfriendly airport, with Edinburgh the most welcoming, according to a survey. The Bedfordshire airport got the thumbs-down from travellers asked to rate the friendliness of staff in a poll by travel search site Skyscanner.