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Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh Live
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Alan McEwen & Alasdair Clark

Edinburgh's notorious street teams from Young Niddrie Terror to Clerry Jungle

Glasgow's youth teams may be Scotland's most notorious, but Edinburgh has its own ugly reputation for street gangs.

Through the years, gang culture among a section of the city’s youth has shifted from pitched battles at travelling fairgrounds to YouTube videos boasting of their loathsome antics online.

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And some of the city's most high-profile criminals graduated from the ranks of the city's street gangs, including the infamous George Buchanan.

A member of Young Niddrie Terror since his teens, he was convicted in 1974 of the attempted murder of a rival and again in 1987 for his involvement in the theft of heroin from the MacFarlan Smith factory in Gorgie.

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