{"id":660370,"date":"2025-12-29T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660370\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T13:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:54:12","slug":"drones-banned-from-flying-over-edinburgh-castle-during-hogmanay-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/660370\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones banned from flying over Edinburgh Castle during Hogmanay celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drones have been banned from flying over Edinburgh Castle as Hogmanay celebrations kick off in the capital. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police Scotland said that as part of the operation for the Edinburgh Hogmanay Festival, a temporary airspace restriction will be in place.<\/p>\n<p>Police have issued the no-fly zone as the annual Torchlight Parade takes place in the city, beginning at the Meadows and guiding visitors through the Old Town.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ba55a525f7ce2b926a49f60faa399a50-1767008418.jpg\" width=\"766\" height=\"677\"   alt=\"A temporary airspace restriction will be in place covering the city centre\"\/>Police ScotlandA temporary airspace restriction will be in place covering the city centre Police Scotland<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions have been put in place from 5pm on Monday until 1am on Tuesday for security and public safety, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say it will be an offence for any unmanned aircraft to fly below 2,000ft above sea level and within one nautical mile of Edinburgh Castle.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions include drones, officers said.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758059248_2_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drones have been banned from flying over Edinburgh Castle as Hogmanay celebrations kick off in the capital. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-660370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115803197730392585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}