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Edinburgh marks Fairtrade Fortnight with a free brunch at the National Library of Scotland.

The City of Edinburgh Council, in partnership with the Office of Fair Trading, is running a month-long 'Scamnesty' as part of an ongoing drive to combat scams.

Nominations are being sought for Edinburgh's fair trade champions as the city gears up for Fairtrade Fortnight 2010.

The Fairtrade Fortnight is designed to raise awareness of the Fairtrade Movement. It takes place at venues and shops across Edinburgh and throughout the UK. The theme of the 2010 Fairtrade Fortnight is "The Big Swap", encouraging people to use a Fairtrade alternative to their normal product where possible.

One of the effects of the massive evaporation of easy credit both in Britain and around the world in recent months has been deflation. In 2009, Britain is expected to officially enter into its first deflationary period in 49 years when the Retail Price Index, which measures the price of goods and services, drops below zero.

After the recent spate of grim news for local banks, Edinburgh's battered financial industry got a much-needed boost yesterday.

Former Royal Bank of Scotland chief Sir Fred "the Shred" Goodwin is facing increasing public and government pressure to give up his pension after running the bank into the ground.

RBS, which has its head office in St. Andrew Square, reported an annual loss of more than £24bn on Thursday - the largest corporate loss in British history.

Some of these banks have merged - the obvious examples being NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland or HBOS (Halifax-Bank of Scotland) with LloydsTSB. Since the new LloydsTSB megabank has retained the brands of the original, individual banks, they are listed separately here.

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Historic Scotland's flagship attraction Edinburgh Castle has welcomed its one millionth visitor through the door for the current financial year (1st April 2008 to 31st March 2009).

In spite of a particularly rainy Summer and the credit crunch, pedestrians were out in force in Edinburgh's city centre over the summer with footfall figures increasing by 17 percent on the previous quarter according to a new report from Edinburgh City Council.

As part of the Edinburgh Lecture series Dr Linda Yueh, author of Globalisation and Economic Growth in China, talks about ties between the "the birthplace of modern economics" as expounded by Adam S

The National Business Awards for Scotland 2008

In July this year I was asked to be a judge in the National Business Awards for Scotland,

A 10 foot, bronze statue of one of the most famous thinkers of the Edinburgh Enlightenment, Adam Smith, was unveiled yesterday outside St. Giles Cathedral.