An investigation is under way into the cause of a large blaze at a school sports pavilion owned by Watsonian Football Club on Myreside Road.
Fire officials said the first floor of the two-storey building was well alight when they arrived on the scene around 9.30am this morning.
Myreside Road was closed in both directions from Colinton Road to Meadowspot.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said: “We were alerted at 09:23 on Wednesday to reports of a fire on Myreside Road, Edinburgh.
“Operations Control mobilised six appliances and a height appliance to the scene, where crews were met with a well-developed fire on the first floor of a two-storey building within Watsonian Football Club.”
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.
