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Scores of students huddled together outside Lee House at 2am on Saturday morning. When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Advice against car sharing with people from outside your household. 3. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today announced a package of tough coronavirus lockdown rules aimed at bringing the current surge in cases back under control. She is trying to keep the festival’s chemistry alive with the Shedinburgh Fringe, a series of theatre and comedy shows performed in sheds erected on theatre stages in Edinburgh and London and beamed to ticket-buying viewers around the world. All that’s missing are the hundreds of thousands of other people who usually do the same in Scotland's capital. Isabelle Watson had been walking the Southern Upland way with her father and sister when she turned back - but hasn't been seen since. While pubs have been told to close at 10pm to stop the spread, one commuter pointed out that people heading home from a drink in Edinburgh were forced to pack into a tiny train. They will be allowed to, for example, meet as a group of six from six households. Usually the venue is a hub for performances at the Edinburgh Fringe, the vast performance festival that helps turn the city into a global creative hub every summer — drawing crowds, generating buzz and filling the coffers of hoteliers, pub-owners, shopkeepers and tour guides. 4. Edinburgh dad survives record 172-day COVID fight in ICU as family were told to say goodbye 4 times. "We have now seen an increase in the older population too, hospital and intensive care admissions and also deaths are starting to rise as well. EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 10: First Minister Nicola Sturgeon arrives for First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament on September 10, 2020 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Edinburgh has been synonymous with arts festivals since 1947, when the Edinburgh International Festival was founded to revive the war-weary city. Digital offerings such as Shedinburgh provide some succor for artists and audiences, but little comfort for Edinburgh’s tourism-dependent businesses. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Arrest after man and small child were followed home in Fountainbridge Edinburgh, The incident happened just before noon this afternoon, Bomb squad rush to Amazon warehouse in Fife after ‘suspicious package’ found, Police sealed off roads near the Dunfermline depot in Fife at around 3.25pm on Sunday, Mum moves house - and new postcode instantly wins her £30,000, Edinburgh cops hunt gang who left man hospitalised with 'serious facial injuries' in targeted attack, The assault took place in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh last week, Furious commuter slams ScotRail for putting on 'tiny, packed trains' at pub closing time. If necessary they will make this a legal requirement. Over the decades it has helped launch the careers of comedians including members of Monty Python, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and spawned hit stage shows including “Black Watch” and “Jerry Springer: The Opera.”, Fringe chief executive Shona McCarthy said the decision to cancel for the first time in 73 years was “profoundly sad, because you knew the ripple effect it would have on so many other people.”, “It’s not just for the artists and the technicians and what happens on stages,” she said.