Edinburgh Headlines 11 August: Edinburgh pubs that inspired famous authors including Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh, Robert Burns and Iain Banks

The latest news headlines from the Edinburgh Evening News, Friday August 11th.

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00:00 Hi there, welcome back to EdinburghNews.com. I'm Rhoda Morrison, I'm the editor here at

00:07 the Edinburgh Evening News and I'm going to run through just some of the main headlines

00:10 from the day so far. Cash and jewellery have been taken during a daylight break-in on Tuesday

00:17 which happened at a Bathgate property. Entry was gained to the property in Elizabeth Drive

00:22 at some point between half past twelve and one in the afternoon and several items were

00:27 taken from inside. More than a million tickets have been sold during the first week of the

00:33 Edinburgh Fringe, organisers have announced. Ticket sales are believed to be running well

00:38 ahead of last year's festival which attracted an overall audience of about 2.2 million.

00:46 And finally, as the Book Festival gets underway this weekend, we've taken a look at some of

00:50 the Edinburgh pubs which have literary links. You can take a look through the pubs which

00:54 have inspired vitals from Robert Burns to Ian Rankin up on our website now. If you've

01:00 got a story that you think we should be covering or that you want to let us know about, please

01:04 do get in touch. All our details are over on our Contact Us page and as always, stick

01:08 around for all the latest news from Edinburgh as we get it throughout the day and over the

01:12 weekend.