David Mclean

1 week ago | glasgowlive.co.uk | Sean Murphy |David McLean |David Mclean

Glasgow it's fair to say, has one of the best food and drink scenes in the whole of the UK - and it has only gotten better in the last few years. Forever changing though; for every amazing new restaurant we've gained, we've sadly lost one or two favourites along the way. Down the generations there have been scores of cafés and restaurants that have captured the hearts, minds and taste buds of Glaswegians - too many to count, in fact.

2 weeks ago | edinburghlive.co.uk | David McLean |David Mclean

With the news that Sky Sports plans to cancel its seminal morning football show Soccer AM after 28 years, we look back at the time a group of Hibs hooligans tricked their way to appearing on the programme. For the best part of three decades, Soccer AM has been a Saturday morning ritual for football fans up and down the country, known for its mix of informal footy chat, celeb appearances and fun-packed competitions and games.

2 weeks ago | edinburghlive.co.uk | David McLean |David Mclean

In October 1972, 21-year-old Dutchman Ernst Dumoulin went for a walk with his new German fiancée Helga Konrad, 18, to the city's Salisbury Crags. Only Ernst would return home that night. Against the wishes of Helga's parents, the young lovebirds had eloped to Edinburgh in late September and moved into lodgings at 9 Torphichen Street owned by a Mr Herbert Wood. Ernst had forked out three weeks' rent in advance, as the couple made plans to marry one another at the registrar's office in Haymarket.

3 weeks ago | edinburghlive.co.uk | David McLean |David Mclean

If you are Edinburgh born and bred or have lived in here for any length of time, chances are you are familiar with at least a few of the city's numerous youth gangs. Referred to locally as young teams, many of these gangs go back decades, with names such as the Young Leith Team (YLT), Tollcross Rebels (TCR) and Cleri Jungle among some of the most well-known.

3 weeks ago | edinburghlive.co.uk | David McLean |David Mclean

Many will walk or drive past the former City Poorhouse on Edinburgh's Comiston Road every day and see it as nothing other than a sheltered housing block. However, before its redevelopment, it lay derelict and abandoned for some time, having opened in 1870 to provide a "comfortable home for the aged and poor," but that's not all it is remembered for.