The Edinburgh Inquirer

In your essential Edinburgh roundup, the headlines include:

🌊 Concern as third of bathing beaches just meet minimum standards

👩‍🎤 Princes Street Gardens to host six weeks of music, food and drink

🎄 Top restaurateur sparks Xmas markets debate

Much more here 👇

Come on in the water quality is 'sufficient' Plus: Party in Princes Street Gardens; and debate about the German Market that is no more

Ever wondered what happens to all that fly-tipped junk? We took a trip with the council's team and discovered just how damaging our bad waste habits can be.

On the plus side, our news roundup today includes an idea to open up Edinburgh's private gardens and The Quinntessential Review has another fabulous five culture picks for you.

On the road with the city's fly-tipping team Picking up after the rubbish dumpers who cost the city £2 million a year

In your essential Edinburgh roundup today:

📵 Mobile phones set to be locked up in city schools

🏨 Edinburgh leapfrogs Dublin with Europe's most expensive hotel stays

🎨 Tributes to city's celebrated street artist Elph

👩‍🎤 'Wembley Way' plan for Ingliston showground

Plus lots more in the newsletter 👇

Mobile phones set to be locked up in schools across Edinburgh Plus: Edinburgh leapfrogs Dublin to be most expensive city for hotel accommodation in Europe

Didn't catch Hidden Door last year? Good news! The arts and music extravaganza will be taking over the enormous paper factory venue for one last hurrah next week, with Valtos heading up the line up. More on what to expect here 👇

The last shift at the Paper Factory Will Quinn takes a look at what to expect when the Hidden Door Festival returns next week

Edinburgh has seven regional MSPs - this year all but one of them are new faces in Holyrood- only Conservative Miles Briggs is back, for his third term. So behind the party politics, who are these new representatives of ours?
Katherine Sangster MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East Q Manivannan MSP Cllr Kayleigh Kinross-O'Neill Scottish Labour Party Scottish Green Party

The disability campaigner, the party switcher and the pilloried trans activist Meet your Lothian list MSPs