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The bomb squad was called out after an unexploded device was found by a boat dredging the water of the Firth of Forth. The boat was evacuated as a precaution after returning to Western Harbour in the Newhaven area of Read More …
A man who threw a petrol bomb at an Edinburgh family home to “scare” a man has been jailed for five years. Joseph Haughian, 38, threw the weapon at Lewis Gosman and struck a window in the Moredun area on Read More …
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) officers were spotted on Cramond beach as they detonated a historic object that was found in a residential area. Edinburgh police were called to the Craigmillar Park area at around 3.25pm on Friday 15 December. They Read More …
Eight police officers have been injured in what police described as organised Bonfire Night clashes in Scotland. The most serious disorder took place in the Niddrie area of Edinburgh, where a group of 50 youths threw fireworks and petrol bombs Read More …
Police officers say they were attacked with fireworks, petrol bombs and a Molotov cocktail in a series of violent bonfire night incidents in Scotland. Two officers in Edinburgh were treated in hospital for head injuries after youths threw bricks at Read More …
Police Scotland has welcomed the sentencing of Nikolaos Karvounakis after he left an improvised explosive device (IED) in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh in January 2018. Th 35-year-old was sentenced to eight years and four months at the High Court in Read More …
Police Scotland, the Fire Service and the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit were called to the Sighthill delivery office on Cultins Road at around 10.30am on Saturday. The Scottish Sun are reporting that the package was ‘smouldering’ and had the First Read More …
Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Ukraine Jennes de Mol said this to an Ukrinform correspondent in The Hague. “A new program of the Dutch government sets a very ambitious goal – a mine-free world by 2025. In Read More …
A man arrested at Heathrow Airport has become the 10th person detained as part of a major operation against dissident republicans in Northern Ireland. Detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) arrested the man on Saturday as part Read More …
A bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion tonight after a potentially suspicious item was found in Holyrood Road this afternoon. Police sealed off part of the road outside the Holyrood 9A pub, between St Mary’s Street and a Read More …
