Firefighters tackled a large blaze at a restaurant on Dalry Road last night.

Emergency services were alerted shortly after 9pm to the fire at the Sombrero Bar near to Haymarket Railway Station.

A number of nearby roads closed while firefighters extinguished the fire.

A spokeswoman for SFRS said: “At 9.16pm, we received a call that a fire had broken out on Dalry Road, Edinburgh.

“There were three appliances and one high appliance in attendance.”

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John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.