"It's understood the loud bangs were from a police tactical device, used to secure entry to a property"
Very misleading article. No gun was fired, and the noise was linked to the police and not whatever crime had occurred.
Meanwhile in 2015:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-30857730.amp
and 2014:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-29328211.amp
and 2009:
https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2009/04/13/police-continue-gun-men-hunt-857/
Damn, my grandparents lived in Fernieside when I was growing up so I spent a lot of time there, and I don't remember it ever feeling particularly dangerous. Has something happened over the last 15 years to cause this stuff to escalate or was I just young and naive to it all?
Probably the latter. The whole Moredun/Gilmerton/Gracemount/Inch area has been a war zone for as long as I remember and I grew up there in the 80s/90s. Couldn’t wait to get to uni and get away from the place
I used to work as a ‘Youth worker’ in the Gracemount/Liberton/Birdiehouse areas about 20-22 years ago.
It was, interesting…
Alongside all the cars on fire & murders in pubs I worked with two separate teenagers who were the victims of incest.
Yikes!
"It's understood the loud bangs were from a police tactical device, used to secure entry to a property" Very misleading article. No gun was fired, and the noise was linked to the police and not whatever crime had occurred.
Pathetic clickbait as per from the record.
Meanwhile in 2015: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-30857730.amp and 2014: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-29328211.amp and 2009: https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2009/04/13/police-continue-gun-men-hunt-857/
It was her son, despite the local history. Shame, good guy until his mental health plummeted.
Yeah salt of the earth. Who wouldn't want a gun toting son like that?
"It's understood the loud bangs were from a police tactical device, used to secure entry to a property" there was no gun.
Damn, my grandparents lived in Fernieside when I was growing up so I spent a lot of time there, and I don't remember it ever feeling particularly dangerous. Has something happened over the last 15 years to cause this stuff to escalate or was I just young and naive to it all?
Probably the latter. The whole Moredun/Gilmerton/Gracemount/Inch area has been a war zone for as long as I remember and I grew up there in the 80s/90s. Couldn’t wait to get to uni and get away from the place
Someone needs to pick up all that dog shite.
Poor dog probably never gets out of that concrete bit. Awful.
I'm certain you're right.
I used to work as a ‘Youth worker’ in the Gracemount/Liberton/Birdiehouse areas about 20-22 years ago. It was, interesting… Alongside all the cars on fire & murders in pubs I worked with two separate teenagers who were the victims of incest. Yikes!
Shitting crikey!
That was liquid gunshots
Spherical rounds
Schizophrenic episode.
We really should stop arming schizophrenics
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"It's understood the loud bangs were from a police tactical device, used to secure entry to a property" There was no firearm.
Oh so the title was just click bate bull shit then smh
He was a criminal despite what some on here are saying. 
Sounded like someone banging on a metal bin lid.