A huge fire has broken out in Edinburgh city centre this evening.
Emergency services raced to the South Bridge area in the Old Town after the alarm was raised shortly before 6.30pm on Saturday. Pictures taken from the scene, and shared with Edinburgh Live, showed the huge emergency response with multiple fire engines, ambulances and police vehicles in attendance.
Another image showed a huge plume of black smoke billowing out of a window of a property on the street. It's understood the fire is affecting a first floor flat in a five storey building above the PDSA charity shop on South Bridge.
