Police have arrested three men  after a weapon and drugs were found after officers stopped and searched a car in Ellersly Road yesterday.

Two 18-year-old men and a 20-year-old man have been arrested following the incident.

A police spokesman said: “On Wednesday, 6 May, 2020, road policing officers stopped a vehicle on Ellersly Road in Edinburgh.

“Officers searched the car and discovered a quantity of drugs and an offensive weapon.

“Two men, aged 18, and one man aged 20, were arrested and charged in connection with the incident. All three men are subject of a report of the Procurator Fiscal.”

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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.