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Police Scotland is being sued by officers who were injured amid violence and disorder during Bonfire Night havoc in Edinburgh ...
Eight police officers have been injured in what police described as organised Bonfire Night clashes. The most serious disorder took place in the Niddrie area of Edinburgh, where a group of 50 ...
Specialist police have been deployed to assist local officers with an operation in place, called Moonbeam, to respond to disorder on Bonfire Night. Niddrie Mains Road has been shut down between ...
The aftermath of the riots in Niddrie. Image: Lisa Ferguson/National ... fires and attack emergency workers just because it was Bonfire Night. Mr Kennedy said Police Scotland was stretched in ...
Gangs of feral youths prowled the streets of Niddrie on Bonfire Night aiming fireworks at residents, cars and an ambulance. Police, fire crews and paramedics were met with havoc in Edinburgh on ...
It came as riot cops and the police chopper descended on an Edinburgh housing estate after yobs unleashed more Bonfire Night mayhem. Officers with shields and batons faced down gangs in Niddrie ...
Niddrie and Gracemount. We previously told how violent attacks on police have become almost an "anniversary" event in Edinburgh around Bonfire Night. Cops in the capital now have extra powers ...
In Edinburgh, riot cops and the police chopper descended on a housing estate after yobs unleashed more Bonfire Night mayhem. Officers with shields and batons faced down gangs in Niddrie who ...
Drone footage from Niddrie showed a line of police officers ... In 2018, Police Scotland set up Operation Moonbeam to tackle Bonfire Night disorder. Scottish Conservative justice spokesman Russell ...
He says the police were attacked in Niddrie with a range of weapons including ... and criminal incidents around Halloween and Bonfire Night in Scotland for years. The Fireworks and Pyrotechnic ...
About 50 young people clashed with riot police in Edinburgh with fireworks and petrol-bombs thrown.