Edinburgh Evening News Morning Update 11 March, 2025

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00:00This is your morning update for Tuesday the 11th of March, 2025.

00:05Brought to you by the Edinburgh Evening News.

00:09My dog bags second place at Crufts but we won't give up until she takes top prize.

00:14Thrilled Edinburgh taxi driver Peter Corsi, 57, from Gilmerton,

00:18tells how his 23-month-old English Mastiff dog Doris

00:22finished second in her category for the second year running at Crufts.

00:27New pizza restaurant promises to bring taste of Naples to Edinburgh.

00:31The restaurant will also be giving away 1,000 free slices of the pizza

00:35on Thursday, April 10th from 12pm.

00:39Edinburgh councillors debate £650,000 for crucial bus routes.

00:44For several years the council has subsidised the routes,

00:47but according to a council report the subsidies were paused in July 2023

00:51for council officers to study the routes and seek legal advice on the funding.

00:57Edinburgh drivers warned of emergency roadworks after gas leak discovered.

01:02Temporary traffic lights have been installed in Collington Road

01:05near the Craiglockhart Leisure and Tennis Centre,

01:07with the works having started at around 5pm on Monday, March 10th.

01:12Drivers have been advised that these will be in place until further notice,

01:15with no finish date available.

01:19Man who showed utter contempt for child victims jailed at Edinburgh Court.

01:24On Tuesday, February 11th he was convicted of various offences including sexual assault,

01:29the possession, taking and distributing of indecent images of children

01:33and inciting another person to commit sexual offences against the child.

01:38Appalling roads in Bathgate have never been so bad, councillor warns.

01:43And he was told a lack of money was largely to blame

01:45for the state of roads across West Lothian and Scotland,

01:48while changing weather patterns are also accelerating the disintegration of road surfaces.

01:54Plans to turn former North Berwick Bank Hall into home rejected for a fourth time.

01:59The former Royal Bank of Scotland branch on the town's west gate

02:03was bought for more than double the £225,000,

02:06asking price when it went on the market in 2018.

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