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Edinburgh Fringe's final figures

Here are all the final stats for this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

29/08/2023

Culture news

Edinburgh Fringe 2023: Our favourite shows of the festival

As the world's biggest theatre festival comes to a close for another year, we take a look back at the Fringe and our favourite shows of 2023.

27/08/2023

Culture news

Why you should be excited about Notting Hill Carnival

Parades, steel drums, and of course lots and lots of loud music. What to do while you're there, and how did the carnival get started. It's all in our guide to this year's carnival - the biggest street party in Europe.

26/08/2023

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British Museum director steps down over stolen items controversy

Hartwig Fischer released a statement announcing his resignation.

25/08/2023

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Rising number of UK homes installing heat pumps and solar panels

Around 18,000 heat pumps and 120,000 solar panels have been installed so far in 2023 but subsidies aren’t enough to encourage more households.

25/08/2023

Health news

UK authorities probe 88 deaths linked to man who sold poisons online

Kenneth Law is accused of deliberately selling poisons to vulnerable people at risk of suicide in multiple countries.

25/08/2023

Culture news

How two friends turned a break-up into a revolutionary Fringe show

We sat down with Ell Potter and Mary Higgins, the minds behind 'The Last Show Before We Die', one of Euronews Culture's top picks of this year's Edinburgh Fringe.

24/08/2023

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Royal Mail celebrates Paddington’s 65th birthday with special stamps

“It's nice having a bear (stamp) about the house."

24/08/2023

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Greece renews calls for artefact returns after British Museum thefts

Questions are being raised about the British Museum's security protocols, its handling of thefts, and how long senior management was aware before action was taken. Now, Greece is renewing its calls for the return of the Parthenon Marbles.

23/08/2023

United Kingdom

Monster hunters flock to Scotland for biggest 'Nessie' hunt in decades

An old tale meets modern advances as the search for the elusive creature uses new underwater drone tech.

23/08/2023

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OnlyFans billboards ruled 'not overtly sexual' by UK ad watchdog

Eliza Rose Watson's OnlyFans billboards have been cleared. "If a gambling or alcohol company can run their ads, which have far more devastating impacts, why not me?"

23/08/2023

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UK actors back plans to make film and TV production greener

What is a Green Rider, and can film and TV productions become more environmentally friendly?

23/08/2023

United Kingdom

Scotland still has Europe's highest drugs deaths, new figures show

The number of drug deaths fell from the previous year's figures but are huge in comparison to numbers from 20 years ago, and other European countries.

22/08/2023

Health news

MRI scans ‘more reliable’ than a blood test to detect prostate cancer

Researchers have found that a blood test alone to detect prostate cancer can be unreliable, leading to overdiagnosis and missing some cancers.

22/08/2023

Culture news

Comedian Rob Auton on his personal new Edinburgh Fringe show

Euronews Culture sat down with Rob Auton to discuss how he’s getting his human experience during his Edinburgh Fringe show (one of our top picks of the festival).

19/08/2023

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British Museum staff sacked for theft named as senior curator

The British Museum says it's taking legal action and the Metropolitan Police's economic and crime command is investigating.

18/08/2023

Culture news

British broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson has died aged 88

Parkinson’s TV career spanned seven decades, during which he interviewed some of the greats in cinema, music and politics.

17/08/2023

Culture news

British Museum sacks staff member over missing and stolen items

The museum says the pieces include "gold jewellery and gems of semi-precious stones and glass dating from the 15th Century BC to the 19th Century AD".

17/08/2023

United Kingdom

Edinburgh faces conspiracy theories over 20-minute neighbourhoods

There are fears that misinformation is gaining "enough traction to be dangerous" amid a report that someone was assaulted for promoting the policy.

16/08/2023

United Kingdom

Bulgarians suspected of spying for Russia charged in London

The three had reportedly lived in the UK for a number of years, at different locations.

16/08/2023