A NEW health clinic has opened in the heart of the city. The facility on Princes Street will include skin cancer screening, healthy heart checks and allergy testing. It will be based with the street's Superdrug store, and also offer food intolerance tests and weight management courses.

By BRIAN DONNELLY and JAMIE BORTHWICK MAJOR traffic disruption is expected in Edinburgh next month as a main route into the centre is closed to allow work on new tram infrastructure.

On Tuesday, Rob Robertson suggested cars should be banned from the centre of Edinburgh in festival season. This is what you thought . . . AS I see it, this is not about cars or parking or buses or taxis. It's about making the city into a great place for people.

By NO BYLINE ANDREW Carnegie, the Scots-American billionaire, is famous for saying (in 1899): "He who dies rich, dies disgraced." Carnegie, who at one point was probably the richest individual in the world, lived by his maxim. He gave away dollars 350 million.

By Adrian Mather AN underground network of escalators would link Edinburgh's central rail and bus stations with the St James Centre under plans being considered by the city council.