Members of COBRA – the Campaign to Open Blackford Railway-station Again’ – have been bolstered by the positive results of an independent transportation review. Campaigners say the findings ...

But the long-time Blackford resident and frequent train traveller struggles to find anything remotely funny about his town’s lack of a rail station. Recently drafted in as patron of local group ...

Although Edinburgh still has active train stations at Haymarket, Waverley, Edinburgh Park, South Gyle and the still fairly new Edinburgh Gateway station opened in 2016, there have been around 40 ...

The worst of the blaze is over with fire crews managing to get it under control, but two pumps remain in attendance at the hill. Raging wildfire rips across Edinburgh’s Blackford Hill more than ...

Footage has emerged of a major grass fire which has broken out on Edinburgh's Blackford Hill which has since been put out by firefighters. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman ...

with one major area affected on the Blackford side and another near the Royal Observatory. A spokesman said: “It’s a deep-seated, large scale grass fire on the hill, but our crews are in ...