Actor Tam Dean Burn stabbed in street attack

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A 42-year-old man has been arrested after Outlander and River City star Tam Dean Burn was stabbed in a street attack.

The 60-year-old actor had been speaking at an event at the Scottish Poetry Library on Saturday afternoon and was assaulted outside the venue.

He  taken to hospital, but later released.

A Police Scotland spokesman said: “At 4pm on Saturday, officers responded to a report of a 60-year-old man having been assaulted in Crichton Close. “A 42-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident.”