Our reporter, Harry Ness unwraps our exclusive news on housing in north Edinburgh. The City of Edinburgh Council has confirmed that there are approximately 243 empty homes in north-east Edinburgh alone, despite there being a declared state of housing emergency across the city. “There are 243 empty homes in the North-East locality." In response to a request submitted under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 , the council declared that 243 council homes remain empty

Many teachers in Scotland have to take up marking work for Qualifications Scotland, on top of full-time teaching hours. An Edinburgh-based teacher has warned that the current workload model is ‘inequitable’ without class-contact reform, as negotiations between teaching unions and the Scottish Government continue. The teacher, who wishes to be kept anonymous, detailed concerns to The Edinburgh Economist from the teaching industry around workload and class contact time: “The Sc

Edinburgh's iconic hotel sector has seen an increase in capacity, but a decrease in visitors. A HVS report into Edinburgh's hotel market has revealed a boom in hotel capacity, with the number of rooms in Scotland's capital rising by 23% from 2014, reaching 19,000. Despite this, tourist numbers to Scotland's capital city have decreased by 1.5% year-on-year. In January this year, The City of Edinburgh Council confirmed that it would be introducing a Visitor Levy (tourist tax),