An ex-international rugby player slammed for claiming homeless people "don't belong in the Old Town" is vying to be elected as a city councillor over frustration at the way the city is being run.
Former Scotland prop and businessman Norrie Rowan, a lifelong Edinburgh resident, came under fire in 2019 for putting up posters protesting the decision to open a homeless support centre on South Gray’s Close off the Cowgate which said the council was "bringing 1,100 junkies to a street near you".
An unapologetic Mr Rowan said this week he stood by those remarks, claiming: "It's become even more so now that they've opened this centre. We've had ambulances there every day. These homeless people don't belong in the Old Town, they don't come from the Old Town so why bring them into the Old Town which is a tourist area?"
