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Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh Live
National
Abbie Meehan

Edinburgh firefighters in attendance at blaze in city's Nicolson Square

A fire has broken out on Nicolson Square in Edinburgh on Monday morning after a concerned person spotted the smoke from a few streets away.

The worried resident was walking along East Preston Street when she spotted the dark smoke billowing into the sky in the capital, and wrote on Twitter: "Looks like a big fire somewhere in town #Edinburgh."

The photographs depict thick, dark smoke billowing out from behind the Surgeon's Hall Museum in Edinburgh, sparking concern.

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