Churchill's cigar snuffed out at Edinburgh Fringe
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Scotland snuffed out Winston  Churchill's famous cigar at the Edinburgh Fringe arts festival  on Monday.
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Canadian stand-up comic Phil Nicol clinched Britain's top prize for comedy for his one-hour show &quot;The Naked Racist&quot; at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, organizers said.
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Hogmanay celebrations get under way as X-Factor winner Leon Jackson pulls out of Edinburgh's street party.
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Kieren Fallon can now look forward to a Christmas of giggling children, mince pies and roaring log fires following the announcement that the Jockey Club have abandoned their inquiry into
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Luis Palau dropped from Welsh revival celebration for his 'evangelical beliefs.' By Rob James in Cardiff .
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PRINCE Charles is involved in a row over snubbing Scottish salmon.  Duchy Selections, the Prince's organic company, has chosen Alaskan salmon - which will be shipped thousands of miles - to be smoked in Scotland.
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Arts & entertainment: BBC Radio 1's decision to censor a lyric from  Fairytale of New York looks to have backfired
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Further giant profanity merriment ET would probably do well to steer clear of Scotland, where he will evidently receive the sort of welcome previously enjoyed only by visiting England football supporters. Why? Well, earlier this year, our chums north of the border discovered the popular rural pastime of giant cornfield profanities (as exemplified by this shocker), and promptly dumped an enormous poo in an Edinburgh field.â¦
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Business: 20 January 2005, Thursday. The government decided Thursday to take away the one-year cigarette-production license of Vidin-BT AD tobacco factory.
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For stand-up comedians the Edinburgh  Fringe is the toughest gig in the world, but they revel in the  challenge of competing at the Olympics of Comedy.
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'Offensive' auction protest Aaron Barschak, the "comedy terrorist" who famously gatecrashed Prince William's 21st birthday party, was yesterday ejected from a sale of Hitler artworks after "disrupting" the bidding, the BBC reports.â¦
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FORMER Radio 1 DJ Mike Read has been forced to close his musical after just one night following a string of bad reviews. The show, about playwright Oscar Wilde, was panned by the critics after they were given a preview on Tuesday.
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A versatile showmanÂs final local act is a disappearing one.
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[World News]: London, Nov 26 : Prince Harry left Argentina in a hurry recently after Scotland Yard detectives were reportedly tipped off about a kidnap plot to seize the Prince from a local pub that he is known to frequent.
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Just two months after stepping down, Tony Blair is packing them in the aisles at the Edinburgh Fringe with a brace of satirical musicals about his premiership.
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A MILLION-POUND counterfeit veterinary drug operation on both sides of the border has been dismantled, it emerged yesterday. Health officials aided by police seized massive quantities of illegally manufactured
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Traditional high-energy lightbulb will be taken off the shelves under a government scheme.