What's On

DJ, television presenter and podcast host Edith Bowman, is returning to Musselburgh Racecourse to host the After Racing Party at the popular Stobo Castle Ladies Day.The former Radio 1 DJ, who now presents the weekly Soundtracking podcast on which she interviews film-makers about their...

Van Gogh Alive, the hit exhibition will continue its world tour with a stop at Edinburgh's Festival Square.Described as 'the world's most-visited immersive, multi-sensory experience', Van Gogh Alive exhibits the life and work of the Dutch artist. The experience immerses visitors in the life...

Musselburgh Racecourse will welcome spectators for the first time in more than a year at its next race meeting on Tuesday 25 May.In a carefully managed event, the East Lothian track will admit 250 racing fans in the first steps towards lifting Covid-19 restrictions...

Musselburgh Racecourse's £240,000 Easter Parade gets Flat season off to the flyerThe £100,000 Betway Queen’s Cup lifts the curtain on Musselburgh’s 16-fixture summer Flat season on Easter Saturday. (16 April).The Betway Easter Saturday meeting also features six other quality races on a card which...

While the UCI World Cycling Championships are taking place in Glasgow there is one race which begins in the capital.The Men's Elite Road Race will trundle down The Mound on 6 August from a start at Arthur's Seat. Some city centre roads will...

A strong footballing theme and a flurry of entries from champion jumps trainer Paul Nicholls marks out Musselburgh as the place to be this weekend for racing fans.The bet365 Scottish Cheltenham Trials over Saturday and Sunday (4-5 Feb) is widely regarded as a prep...

A drop in distance by just three furlongs could make a huge difference to the prestigious £40,000 Edinburgh Cup at Musselburgh Racecourse on 3 June, believes track boss Bill Farnsworth.The feature race on a £139,000 seven race card has been shortened from 1½ miles...

Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage. A big title but it attracted the interest of my grandkids as they have recently visited the Post Office museum in London.I tagged along not knowing what to expect. Well, I enjoyed it nd learned a great deal. The...

Just back from Realm VR at 600 Gorgie Road, Edinburgh. It's in an office block (pictured) and, possibly, one you have passed many times without knowing what is inside.Basically, the Realm VR package provides virtual reality games through a headset.Not a gamer at...

The move to Level Zero Covid-19 restrictions will have a limited impact on the number of racing fans Musselburgh Racecourse can welcome over its crucial summer season.First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced yesterday (Wed 13 July) that restrictions in Scotland would be eased from 19...

'Adjust/Adapt', a major new group exhibition showcasing and celebrating the transformative power of creativity and craft to transcend challenging times and presented by a partnership of The Scottish Furniture Makers Association (SFMA) and Visual Arts Scotland (VAS), was due to open on 27th March...

Musselburgh Racecourse gets its Flat season underway with the £174,000 Betway Easter Saturday Race Day on 3 April.With 16 Flat fixtures staged over the summer months and into October, the East Lothian course will continue to race behind-closed-doors but is primed to accommodate spectators...

The £88,000 Betway New Year’s Day meeting at Musselburgh Racecourse will take centre stage following the abandonment of Cheltenham’s 1 January fixture due to a waterlogged course.History-making Bryony Frost heads a list of star names on parade, fresh from her Boxing Day success at...

Grange Hockey Club are running a free webinar event next week with four inspirational and hugely talented Scottish Sportswomen.They have pulled the event together as a great opportunity to hear from some of Scotland’s best team athletes about their journeys so far, showcasing some...

Edinburgh residents are invited to join the Scottish Land Commission online at its latest virtual public meeting.The meeting aims to give people the opportunity to talk about their local land, sharing the issues and questions they may have, and to find out about the...

The Brunton welcomes three top artists during The Saltire Festival programme to celebrate St Andrew's Day. Barbara Dickson performs with her full band on Saturday, November 30 (7.30pm). She started her career in the folk clubs and has since recorded numerous hit songs including Answer...

New Year’s day revellers return to Musselburgh Racecourse.Revellers are being offered the chance to usher in 2023 with a day of quality horse racing and entertainment – as Musselburgh’s New Year’s Day fixture reopens to the public for the first time in two years.The...

The Brunton inform us that tickets for The Steamie, which runs from Wednesday 25 to Saturday 28 January, are sold out.Also scheduled is the Golden Globe winning movie The Banshees of Inisherin (15) on Wednesday 25 January. starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, The National Theatre Live brings Arthur Miller's The Crucible to Venue 1's big screen...

Musselburgh Racecourse jumps back into action on Saturday 30 October with its “biggest and best ever” National Hunt programme.Aside from the opening £100,000 fixture, season highlights include the traditional Betway New Year’s Day meeting on 1 January, the £250,000 weekend double-header bet365 Scottish Festival...

ROS CANTER COMES TO SCOTLANDThe new 'Training To Win' Lecture Demo comes to Rockrose Equestrian Centre, Scotland on 9 March 2020.  World Champion Ros Canter and top coach Caroline Moore, show you the secrets of their success and what goes on behind the scenes when...

The Honest Toun’s revamped Guy Fawkes firework display has been declared an outstanding success by many who attended the event at Musselburgh Racecourse.Five thousand free tickets were issued in a joint project financed by the Musselburgh Common Good Fund and Musselburgh Racecourse for a...

New peak-summer August date announced for 2021 Ladies DayMusselburgh Racecourse has cancelled Stobo Castle Ladies Day following confirmation by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) that all scheduled fixtures in May and June have been cancelled.The premier raceday, which attracts a capacity attendance of 10,000,...

The westbound carriageway of the A720 Edinburgh City Bypass will be closed for resurfacing between Baberton and Calder Junctions from 20:30 until 06:00 on the night of 27 March.A diversion route for westbound traffic will be signposted from Baberton Junction via the B701 and...

Josh Quigley, the record-breaking Scottish cyclist, has thrown his support behind plans for the return of the Tour de Forth sportive, which was cancelled last year due to Covid-19. The annual event has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities, including its main...

The Scottish ParaClimb 2019 is being held on Sunday the 8th September alongside a new Adult Lead and Speed Competition.This means that the paraclimb routes will be spread across new areas of the Ratho walls, giving some great new challenges which have not been...

A young Scottish linguist is transforming the language learning opportunities of under fives in Edinburgh. Christopher Atha founded Future Bilingual in August 2021 with the aim of providing native-speaker led, immersive language learning experiences for preschoolers in the city. A qualified secondary school languages teacher, he...

Fresh from a UK tour in April 2019 and a performance at Scotland’s biggest music festival, Celtic Connections, Mairearad and Anna will hit the road again this November including an appearance at the Leith Folk Club on Tuesday12 November.The duo will be performing material from their fourth...

Offering something for all ages and stages, the ‘biggest club in town’, is launching a new set of pre and post-natal fitness classes in two of its venues.From Pregnancy to Mum and Baby Yoga to Bumps and Babies, the sessions will be launching at...

Musselburgh Racecourse kicks off the £600,000 Sky Bet Sunday Series at its next meeting on Sunday (25 July).With almost £200,000 prize money on offer at the East Lothian course, Musselburgh is joining with Haydock and Sandown to launch the triple “twilight” fixtures which will...

At Musselburgh Racecourse they are looking forward to a repeat of last year’s Betway New Year’s Day meeting with another sold out race day.VIP packages sold out in early December and with less than 500 general admission tickets remaining, the East Lothian track will...