Samson's next big match will be for the Barbarians against Bedford on 7 April, 12 months after he helped the Ba Bas defeat Edinburgh at Raeburn Place, and says he is relishing the prospect.
Trams are due to run by summer 2014 from Edinburgh Airport to York Place.
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In Scotland, the main parade and re-badging ceremony took place at Edinburgh Castle.
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Ten street parties took place in Edinburgh, with the Scottish capital understood to have made a third of all of Scotland's street party applications.
It means she qualifies top for the World Cup Grand Final later this month and also secures a place in Edinburgh for fellow Briton Andrea Gales.
Although Mr Salmond is an imperious figure in Scotland, where his Scottish National Party governs alone, the skirmishes between London and Edinburgh that have taken place this month have emboldened unionists.
Grove was chosen ahead of Ben Cairns, with whom he will compete for a place with Edinburgh should his move be confirmed and who will travel with Scotland A to Romania to defend the Nations Cup.
Munster, who finished one place higher than Edinburgh last season, are expected to field British and Irish Lions captain Paul O'Connell.
The bonus-point win on the final day of the season lifted Edinburgh above Leinster to second place in the Magners League table, while the Blues finished as the third ranked Welsh region in sixth.
The result means Motherwell replace Hearts in third place, with the Edinburgh side still looking for their first home win of the season.
He named it after that resting place on the hill at Edinburgh.
The drawings he showed to the Edinburgh College of Art won him an immediate place.
The festival's Mardi Gras takes place on 20 July with the Edinburgh Festival Carnival on 21 July.
In October 2006 he resigned his post at Central Park to take over at TPS Turku and steered the Finnish side to a third place finish before moving again to Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh-based firm said drilling operations were taking place at its Sapele-1 well in the Douala Basin.
The Edinburgh Fringe has, for years, been a place where emerging talent can showcase skills in their bid for TV stardom.
London based universities Imperial, UCL and LSE improved their positions as did Edinburgh University while Manchester University made it to 47th place.
Ms Stihler said she found it "strange" that Sir David believed Mr Salmond was correct to wait until the Edinburgh Agreement before seeking legal advice on Scotland's place in the European Union.
It had been claimed Mr Sheridan lied when he told the Court of Session in Edinburgh on 21 June, 2006 that no conversation took place between him and Keith Baldassara during which he said he was present at "madness" in a Glasgow hotel, but did not participate.
That fourth-place finish came at last month's Great Edinburgh International, a race won by another 19-year-old sensation, Kenya's Linet Masai.
The final will take place on either 23 or 24 May and returns to Edinburgh for the first time since Toulouse won there in 2005.
Another 11 satellite events took place at the same time, including three schools in the UK, Edinburgh prison and places in Australia and Malaysia.
One Scot definitely taking part in Saturday's trials in an attempt to earn a place in Great Britain's European Championships team for the event in Edinburgh on 14 December is Freya Murray.
Edinburgh Airport, for instance, is attractive to incoming visitors as much as a gathering place for outbound - not least today, as the planes head south with happy English rugby fans.
The Edinburgh side are now five points clear of Dundee United in the race for a Europa League place, while Motherwell's nine-game unbeaten run came to an end.
Mr Lang, who is bidding to take the Edinburgh North seat from Labour at the next Westminster election, suggested allowing a referendum to take place would "settle an issue which I fear is haunting Scottish politics".
"He has also had two different managers and the situation at the moment where there is no manager in place didn't help his chances of staying next season, " McGlynn told the Edinburgh Evening News.
Cardinal O'Brien's resignation took place after the former priest and three current priests from the diocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh complained to the Pope's representative to Britain, Archbishop Antonio Mennini, in early February about what they alleged had been inappropriate behaviour towards them in the 1980s.
The fraud, which took place about 15:00 on Tuesday 15 January at the east end of Princes Street, Edinburgh, has led to a police appeal for information.
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