C4 News pop-up

Channel 4 News comes to you for a week of pop-up shows, travelling from Cornwall to Edinburgh to see how real the economic recovery really is. Today we’re in Edinburgh!

Watch again: Jackie Long hosts a Google Hangout with the people we have met up and down the country this week as part of #c4newspopup. Is the economy really recovering?

The Scottish crime writer talks life, death and Scottish independence.

Watch the highlights as Channel 4 News “pops up” across the UK, from Cornwall to Scotland.

Plans to build a new tram network in the Scottish capital have so far delivered nothing but a vast concrete jungle, which is irking people in Edinburgh.

It is festival time in Edinburgh and the city is heaving. But what is life like outside the bubble – and is there any sign of recovery further afield? #c4newspopup takes to the streets to find out.

It is a tough job but someone has to do it – to find out why Britain is not exporting more manufactured goods, I volunteered to travel around Scotland for #c4newspopup and visit whisky producers.

Channel 4 News has been popping up all around the country. In the beauty spots of Cumbria we found local people struggling to make ends meet amid soaring unemployment and benefit cuts.

Are people in rural areas being left behind in the broadband age? Paraic O’Brien meets people in Cumbria who say it’s affecting their businesses and prospects. #c4newspopup

Tourism is Cumbria’s lifeline but how are local people faring after a deep recession and is there enough there to keep young talent at home? #c4newspopup in the Lake District.

For #c4newspopup we take a global debate to the teashops of Cumbria. Jackie Long finds people shocked at the violence in Syria – but wary of military intervention.

On the road to economic recovery? Web Reporter Jennifer Rigby reveals five things Channel 4 News has learned about Middlesbrough during #c4newspopup.

Web Reporter Jennifer Rigby visits a motorbike accessories firm in Teesside on behalf of #c4newspopup to hear if small businesses feel anything is improving.

Channel 4 News visit a community project in the back alley of a Middlesbrough street. Once covered in rubbish, it’s now an oasis of green.

The public sector has been a huge employer in Middlesbrough but now those jobs are disappearing. Has the private sector come forward as the government promised?