Edinburgh Evening News Morning Update 2 September, 2025

Your morning update from the Edinburgh Evening News on September 2, 2025.

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00:00This is your morning update for Tuesday 2nd September 2025.

00:06Brought to you by the Edinburgh Evening News,

00:10Edinburgh's newest Japanese gastropub and one of Scotland's first sake bars now open.

00:15The word izakaya comes from I, to stay, and sakaya, sake shop,

00:20originally places where people could stay, drink and eat.

00:24Three weeks of overnight road closures on M8 begins this week.

00:29Bear Scotland, Transport Scotland's operating company, will oversee the work

00:33and access for emergency vehicles will be maintained at all times.

00:38Edinburgh primary school toilets to be renovated after court gender rulings.

00:43And a few more primary schools will have to make staff toilets available to pupils

00:46where gender-neutral toilets are not available.

00:51What Hearts could do on deadline day, including issue solved and exits.

00:54Midfielder Agu broke the club's transfer record last week

00:58when arriving from Santa Clara in Portugal.

01:03Watch. Edinburgh bar manager hits out after being fenced for eight months.

01:07The manager of an Edinburgh bar has criticised the council

01:10over ongoing roadworks outside his bar after they emerged at the beginning of the year.

01:14For more news, go to edinburghnews.scotsman.com