This interview is with Vineet Lal, who describes himself as a Southsider, although the family settled in Leith in Edinburgh on first arriving in the capital. Vineet is from an auspicious Edinburgh family. Both his mother and father were involved in many initiatives in Edinburgh to combat racism in the city, in education and in civic life. He is mindful of that legacy as he prepares for the Saroj Lal awards in June 2026 - the awards for school children and city schools which are named after his mother. He now considers himself as an activist.

The 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Programme is published on 4 June. There are 3,649 shows between 7 and 31 August and almost 54,000 performances in a city which is home to 550,000 people.

Here we speak to Tony Lankester the CEO of Edinburgh Festival Fringe in what is his second summer in the job.

He tell us about the move to Infirmary Street and the new Fringe Hub as well as what the Society is really there for.

The people who have spoken to The Edinburgh Reporter for the project Edinburgh is Our Home include Simita Kumar, who was recently elected as MSP for Edinburgh Southwestern. Previously, she was the SNP group leader on Edinburgh Council, but began working as a modern apprentice with Glasgow City Council.

Later she studied psychology with criminology and worked with NHS Lothian.

She had little choice but to move to Scotland with her family. She was a teenager living in Fiji when her parents decided to move to the UK so that her father could work in Glasgow as a chef. He resisted at first but then thought it would be a good way to improve life for his family. Here she tells us about her life in Scotland - and some of the challenges

The new exhibition at Dovecot Studios on Infirmary Street in Edinburgh is about Biba. This is more than just affordable dresses, it is about the whole concept from fashion to food which was begun by Barbara Hulanicki as a mail order business.

Co-curator, Dennis Nothdruft, who is Head of Exhibitions at Fashion and Textile Museum, London very kindly spoke to us about the background to the exhibition.

The Calton Hill Conservation Trust is asking the council to help them with funding for the returning and regressing of the areas on top of the hill. The trust says the council already has the funding to do it.

John Thomson a supporter of Save the Roseburn Path campaign asked us to meet him to speak about the campaign which has been active ahead of the tram consultation beginning on 25 August.

Here he agrees that the campaign has been running without knowing the full details of the council proposals to extend the tram northwards to Granton where 3,500 homes are being built.

He says he is a regular cyclist on the path and does not use the tram, and that the campaign is not for or against tram simply one to save the green space on the path.

On a walkabout with a Tracy Gilbert in Muirhouse to see for ourselves what the litter and flytipping problems are in the area.

Here Nina who founded the charity walk for Breast cancer research talks about the beginnings, the charity return since Covid and also moving out of Edinburgh after this year's walk

We spoke with artist and musician Lomond Campbell about MUO which will be an installation at the French Institute as well as live performances on certain dates….and it is all about muons - an invisible force of the surrounding cosmos….

The play Nancy's Philosopher being staged by the Arkle Theatre Company, with Nicole Burnett Smith as Nancy Ord is on daily (not 10 August) at The Royal Scots Club.

The story centres on a young woman who scandalised Edinburgh society by falling in love with the much older David Hume, historian and philosopher.

David Black, the former journalist who write the play lives and works in Edinburgh and here he talks about the idea for the play and the story - which is set in the capital's Queen Street.