Jobs

Want to be in television? The Edinburgh International Television Festival is looking for participants in its scheme The Network, a free event in Edinburgh taking place over four days in August 2010 (from 26th to 29th).

Thugs, footmen, dignitaries, doctors, and ladies of the night are being sought for a new comedy feature film about Edinburgh's famous grave-robbers-turned-murderers Burke and Hare. Universal Extras are holding auditions for the parts at the Tolbooth in Stirling on Thursday 17th December from 9am to 5pm (people can turn up any time on the day according to the announcement).

Four leading research universities – UCL, LSE, King’s College London and Imperial College London – host an event in the Biosphere at Edinburgh's Our Dynamic Earth designed to offer information, advice and guidance to prospective postgraduate students.

Scotland's oldest publisher will be closing at Hogmanay, it was announced yesterday.

The Edinburgh Interactive Festival has confirmed that gaming giant Nintendo has become a partner of this ye

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

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The announcement of Lloyds TSB's £12.2bn takeover of HBOS yesterday will probably mean tens of thousands of job cuts as the two banks are consolidated into one.

The City of Edinburgh City Council have announced that just one agency will be supplying their temporary staff, with possible savings of more than £1million a year.