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Without thinking, the brave 65-year-old began to fight off the local thug eventually prizing the weapon from his hands and pushing him out of the shop.

Peter Buller was jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh and placed on the sex offenders register.

The local robber, known as Crackers, is seen brandishing a gun which he points at the shop owner before demanding all his money.

Originally built to house the high society of Georgian Edinburgh, the elegant St James Square would go on to suffer a dip in reputation that would ultimately see it destroyed in the 1960s.

One local was cruelly targeted while her dad was in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh getting a major heart operation that left her having to fork out £500 for a hire car.

The blaze, which engulfed a block of flats on Craigievar House on Craigmount Brae for several hours on Wednesday, started just a few doors down from the horrified couple.

David McKenzie, 35, staged an attempted robbery at the shop in the Granton area of Edinburgh but was met with resistance by have-a-go hero shopkeeper Khalid Mehmood.

A frustrated homeowner was left stunned and said they had no other choice but to take matters into their own hands and remove a fence themselves after their neighbour ignored their requests

An Edinburgh couple has been left devastated after they discovered sewage water was filling up the basement of their barbers just months after a fire at a nearby store caused serious smoke damage.

A 23-year-old Edinburgh dancer has quite literally ran away to join the circus, and says she's "living the dream". After taking up ballet at the age of three, Amy Findlay says it's been something she always saw for herself.

Back in the day, we all knew the drill when we clocked the sinister-looking vans with twin antenna on top. We look back at the TV detector vans that once prowled our streets.