Police say inquiries established that no crimes were committed
France rugby players have been questioned by police after a report of sexual assault in Edinburgh city centre following the national team’s game against Scotland.
Officers said their inquiries had established that no crimes were committed. It is understood members of the team were taken off a chartered Jet2 flight to Paris scheduled o leave Edinburgh airport at 11am on Monday.
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Edinburgh’s Hogmanay and International Book Festival commissioned Val McDermid to write a short story, New Year’s Resurrection, which is told through projections on to buildings and landmarks around the city. Visitors can use an app for iOS and Android to navigate the nighttime locations
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Val McDermid hopes to revive the memory of 19th-century author Susan Ferrier
Edinburgh’s eerie gothic past, with its notorious “resurrection men” digging up graves under cover of the night in order to provide medical students with cadavers to dissect, is to receive a positive spin this New Year’s Day.
Once the revelry of the city’s Hogmanay celebrations has dwindled, the Scottish author Val McDermid has a plan to “resurrect” a forgotten literary heroine – the 19th-century Scottish novelist Susan Edmonstone Ferrier.
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