Tag: Police Scotland

70 year-old man assaulted in Wardie Park on Tuesday night. Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses following a serious assault that happened in Wardie Park last night . The 70-year-old victim is believed to have...

Police Scotland require your help in tracing a man from West Lothian who has gone missing.Thomas (Tommy) Main is a 52 year old man  who was last seen outside his house in McCallum Court,...

Man arrested, Edinburgh A 17-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with an alleged robbery in the Meadows over the weekend. He is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court today. Police are following a...

Police Scotland advise that they are appealing for witnesses to a serious assault which took place outside a pub on Leith Walk in the early hours of Saturday night/Sunday morning 18 August 2013.The victim...

Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses after a man was robbed in the Capital.The incident happened around 12.50am today in the Meadows.The 20-year-old was walking through Middle Meadow Walk toward Bruntsfield, after a...

Police Scotland can confirm that two demonstrations taking place in Edinburgh have now concluded.Around 130 members of the Scottish Defence League and 350 members of the United Against Fascism groups participated in respective marches...

Police in Edinburgh have seized £60,000 worth of the class B drug Methylethcathinone from an address in the Wester Hailes area of the Capital.Officers raided the address in Morvenside yesterday where they arrested and...

Police in Edinburgh have released a CCTV image of a man they wish to trace in connection with their enquiries into an assault and robbery in Edinburgh last year.A 70-year-old woman was entering the...

Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses following a theft in the Wester Hailes area of the city.The incident happened between 8.45am and 9am on the Union Canal towpath on Monday 12 August 2013.A...

Those drivers who take to the road without valid and current insurance or a driving licence will be targeted during a Police Scotland initiative.A total of 9000 people have been detected by police since...

Police in Edinburgh are carrying out enquiries into an incident where a young woman was robbed in her home in the south of the city on Saturday evening. The robbery took place in Southhouse Crescent...

Police have today issued a warning about a card skimming device in Chesser Avenue, but this is the second instance in as many weeks. On Friday 2 August a similar kind of device was...

Appeal for missing person, Edinburgh Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses about a 49-year-old man who has been reported missing from the capital. Police are getting increasingly concerned for Pascal Pierre Malhaire, who is originally...

Police Scotlandlaunched its operation to keep people safe during the Edinburgh Festival earlier today.During Operation Assure officers within the Capital will work alongside various partner agencies over the coming month in an effort to...

Incident at Scotsman Hotel, EdinburghA Police Scotland spokesman said: "Emergency services are in attendance at the Scotsman Hotel on North Bridge where the bodies of a man and a woman were discovered in...

Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses following an armed robbery at a newsagent's in the Joppa area of the city yesterday.The incident happened at around 2.45pm when a man armed with a knife...

Police Scotland has released images of two men they wish to trace in connection with their enquiries into a serious assault in Edinburgh's city centre last year.A 29-year-old male suffered a fractured shoulder and...

Police investigating the discovery of the remains of a baby in Edinburgh have reported that the child was a boy.Examinations carried out on the remains have confirmed the sex of the child, and that...

Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses to a theft that took place in the Seafield area of the city.The incident happened sometime between 7.30pm on Sunday (28 July 2013) and 7am on Monday...

Discovery of human remains, Edinburgh - appeal for witnessesPolice investigating the discovery of the remains of a baby in Edinburgh are appealing to the public for information that can assist their inquiries.The remains were...

Police in Edinburgh are investigating following an incident in the Hailes Quarry Park area of the city. A woman in her 30s sustained injuries during an attack which occured around 11.20 this morning. The suspect is...

A 72-year-old man has been charged in connection with an alleged attempt to abduct a child in a supermarket car park.The incident happened around 12.40pm on Friday outside Tesco Extra in Musselburgh.The man, who...

Police in West Lothian are appealing for information following the theft of lead from the roof of a nursery in Livingston in the early hours of Tuesday.Around 05.40am on Tuesday morning, three men were...

Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses following an assault and robbery of two teenagers in the Corstorphine area of the capital at around 7.20pm last night.A 14-year-old boy and 15-year-old boy were waiting...

Police in Edinburgh seized large quantities of alcohol from local youths over the weekend as part of an on-going campaign to tackle underage and antisocial drinking in the East of the city.As part of...

Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses following an indecent assault at a business premises last week.The incident happened around 11.30am on Thursday 18th July at the Lava store on Cockburn Street.A 22-year-old woman...

Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses after a woman was racially abused onboard a bus.The incident happened around 6.30pm on Wednesday 17 July 2013 on a Number 12  bus, which was on Princes...

Police in East Lothian are appealing for witnesses after a woman was assaulted in North Berwick this morning (Friday).The 44-year-old victim was walking her Spaniel puppy within the wooded area adjacent to Tantallon Road...

Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses following an assault and robbery in the Muirhouse area of the capital last night (Wednesday 17 July).About 10pm a dozen foreign exchange students were socialising outside the...

 A multi-agency initiative to tackle underage drinking and associated problems is being launched in the Capital today, supported by the Cabinet Secretary for Justice.The East Edinburgh Community Alcohol Partnership (CAP) is a campaign to...