Guy Fawkes celebrations begin tonight. But this year's celebrations come with an emotional appeal..as 4 year old cerebral palsy sufferer Maya Mcrobbie's family hope to raises £60,000 pounds for her to walk again.

The fireworks are taking place tonight at Meadowbank sports stadium.

Our Edinburgh Correspondent Shiv Das now reports...

Disney-themed fireworks to begin

The Scottish Government has reinforced it’s anti-drink driving stance with a legislation set to reduce the legal drink limit to drive.

This brings the country’s drink-driving laws in line with other European states such as Germany and Italy.

However, critics remain divided on whether the legislation will be effective.

Our Political Correspondent Shiv Das now reports…


Holyrood to harden it's drink-driving laws

Shiv Das talks to Edinburgh Doom Metal band

ATRAGON

Warning- awful jokes included!

Atragon interview

Our reporters Jamie Mckenzie and Shiv Das interview Jabaal Hassan from the Iraq Association on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War.

The Iraqi Association is a non-profit organization based in the U.K that exists to enable Iraqis to settle and integrate in this country with rights to express their cultural identities. 

Iraqi Association- interview with Jabaal Hassan

Baroness Nicholson founded the Iraqi Britain Business Council four years ago. She says "the objective is to bring high quality businesses in to Iraq and connect them with high quality Iraqi businesses. The purpose behind that is that there is very high unemployment of young people and I am very keen to get them into jobs and help their futures."



Interview with Baroness Nicholson

Our reporter, Shiv Das spoke to Lucy Franklin of Vegware. 

Interview with Vegware, UK Company of the Year.

Our Reporter, Shiv Das spoke to Lucy Franklin, Communications Manager of Vegware

Interview with Vegware- UK Company of the Year

Our Reporter, Shiv Das spoke to Lucy Franklin, Communications Director of Vegware

Our Reporter, Shiv Das interviews Josh Miller, Joint Managing Director of the George Street Council, regarding the Edinburgh Council's plans to create the City Centre into an improved pedestrian space. 

Interview with Josh Miller - George Street Association

Scotlandforanimals is a grassroots campaigning charity who have labelled the Edinburgh Zoo's panda breeding programme as 'purely commercial' and  'misleading the public'.

Napier News find out why...

Interview with Scotlandforanimals

Councillor Ian Perry explains why 'pedestrianisation' of the City Centre is the right way forward.

Our Reporter Shiv Das finds out

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