Edinburgh to apologise over historical links to slavery

City councillors accept all 10 recommendations of review set up in response to BLM movement

Edinburgh will apologise for suffering caused through the city's involvement in slavery, while statues, street names and buildings associated with the trade will be re-presented" to explain the consequences to the public.

City councillors on Tuesday unanimously accepted all 10 recommendations made in a report on Edinburgh's historical links with slavery and colonialism, the result of a review set up in 2020 in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and chaired by Scotland's first black professor, Sir Geoff Palmer.