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Melanie says that the seagulls can become very defensive every year when their chicks hatch. She filmed one aggressive bird swooping at her small dog in her back garden.

Edinburgh Leisure have said that they looked at their own figures regarding historic usage to find a time that would least impact their users as maintenance work was carried out.

Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, previously went by the title of Countess of Wessex, which was given to her as she married husband Prince Edward.

Luxury brand trainer Carmen, 35, is none-the-wiser as to the whereabouts of her personal belongings more than a week later.

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service had previously said that several people were unaccounted for from a blaze that broke out at Craigievar House in East Craigs in the west of Edinburgh but it is understood that everyone is now accounted for.

Police Scotland confirmed the body was discovered at The Shore in the capital at around 12.30pm.

Nine fire crews are in attendance at the fire within a property in the East Craigs area of the capital.

In the early 1990s, a group of inmates - including one man who had been convicted over Glasgow's ice cream wars killings - escaped through a hole in a fence during a football match at Saughton.

Police have now confirmed that a body was discovered and formal identification is yet to take place but there are no apparent suspicious circumstances.

Flames could be seen flickering into the sky in East Craigs as black smoke billowed out of a top floor flat. It is believed that the adjacent East Craigs Primary School had to be evacuated due to the ongoing incident.

Fallout from Covid crisis has left event struggling financially after last year’s ‘traumatic’ fall in sales