16 famous faces at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024, including Sara Pascoe, Bobby Davro and Paul Merton

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com— With more than 1,500 shows already revealed for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, we’ve taken a look at some of the famous faces you can see on stage this August. Fringe favourites including David O’Doherty, Jason Byrne, Reginald D Hunter and Paul Merton will be joined by other ‘well-kent’ faces from comedy including Adam Hills, Nish Kumar, Dara O’Briain and Sara Pascoe. Joining these famous stand-ups at the Fringe in August will be ventriloquist Nina Conti, politician Mhari Black, TV star...

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com—Edinburgh's Christmas and Hogmanay: Council faces possible legal action over 2024 winter festivals contract. Edinburgh council is facing possible legal action over the award of the contract for this year's Winter Festivals amid "serious concerns" raised about the procurement process. Councillors are due to approve the appointment for up to five years of Unique Assembly, the consortium which stepped in to organise Edinburgh's Christmas in 2022 after the original contractor pulled out. Unique Assembly was then given a one-year extension to run last year’s event as well. But rival event planners GC...

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk—Leeds International Festival of Ideas 2024: Full line-up released including Carol Vorderman and Nile Rodgers. The annual festival is set to return to Leeds Playhouse this October, promising four days of engaging dialogue and world-renowned speakers. From October 2-5, Leeds International Festival of Ideas (LIFI) will host discussions on issues including addiction, artificial intelligence, care, neurodiversity and the impact of reality TV on our perception of reality. An impressive line-up of stars will grace the festival’s stages, including Kate Adie, Stacey Dooley, Kate Garraway and Carol Vorderman....

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com—Edinburgh’s Beltane Fire Festival 2024: Thousands attend spectacular Celtic celebration on Calton Hill. Edinburgh’s popular Beltane Fire Festival returned to Calton Hill last night - a celebratory event that attracts thousands each year. The ancient event, that goes back 3,000 years, celebrates new life and purity and marks the end of the darker seasons and the arrival of summer on May Day. The age old tradition, was revived for modern times in Edinburgh in 1988 and is now one the largest celebrations of its kind in the world. Around 8,500 people attended the event where they followed the...