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• 04/07/08 00:48

  Edinburgh Zoo to be part of Fringe act
  

  Edinburgh Zoo is getting involved in this year's Fringe Festival with an unusual attraction - it will be adding humans to its collection of wild and exotic animals.Five performers will spend 11 days living in an animal enclosure in a show that aims to display the behaviour of humans when being held as captive animals.....

  
  

• 03/07/08 00:36

  Four new galleries dedicated to Welsh art launched
  

  The National Museum of Wales has launched four galleries dedicated to Welsh art. The move has cost £350,000 and more galleries will open in 2009 and 2010.....

  
  

• 03/07/08 00:24

  British Museum sees its most successful year ever
  

  The British Museum has been revealed as the most visited cultural attraction in the UK 2007-08 - touted to be its most successful year since it started counting visitors.A record six million people visited the London museum, beating the Tate Modern and adding one million visitors onto its previous year's figures.....

  
  

• 02/07/08 00:13

  Public invited to comment on Stonehenge initiatives
  

  The public have been invited to express their opinions on the future of ancient tourist attraction Stonehenge.According to the BBC, a three-month consultation period will allow people to give feedback on the location of proposed visitor facilities and nearby roads.....

  
  

• 02/07/08 00:00

  Cash boost for popular Scottish Science centres
  

  £250,000 of extra funding will be shared between Scotland's four science centres in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen, the BBC reports.Popular Scottish science centres Our Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, Glasgow Science Centre, Sensation in Dundee and Aberdeen's Stratosphere will have access to funds intended to encourage more young people to explore the world of physics, engineering and technology.....

  
  

• 01/07/08 09:49

  Controversial 'running' exhibition opens at Tate Britain
  

  The latest exhibition at Tate Britain has caused a storm as Martin Creed's installation, Work No 850, involves paid amateur athletes running through the Duveen Galleries in the London museum. For the next four months runners will sprint through the gallery at 30 second intervals, each journey taking around 15 seconds to complete.....

  
  

• 01/07/08 09:25

  Exeter International Airport unveils expansion plans
  

  A draft master plan has been released by Exeter International Airport that reveals its intention to expand over the coming decade. The government-ordered move allows the plan to be available for public consultation for three months.....

  
  

• 30/06/08 09:13

  Pro-rail campaigners urge reduction in Heathrow domestic flights
  

  Plans to build a third runway at London's Heathrow airport have come under further criticism as it surfaced that 2.5 million passengers a year visit the airport through transfer flights from other British airports.....

  
  

• 30/06/08 09:01

  Adam Smith statue to be unveiled in Edinburgh
  

  A statue of the "father of economics", Adam Smith, is to be unveiled on Friday at 1215 BST in Edinburgh. The sculpture will be placed beside St.....

  
  

• 27/06/08 08:48

  Famous names appearing at Edinburgh Art Festival
  

  Prominent names in the art world, including Tracey Emin, Turner Prize-winner Mark Wallinger and Elizabeth Blackadder, are to appear at this year's Edinburgh Art Festival.Edinburgh's celebration of visual arts was set up five years ago to increase the prominence of the medium in the festival calendar - the central Scotland event is now one of the best of its kind in the UK.....