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A 17-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with an alleged assault in Edinburgh City Centre.

At around 5:40pm on Thursday (Oct 8), a 23-year-old woman was briefly knocked unconscious after falling down an escalator leading from Princes Street to Waverley Station.

Sergeant Jerry Ross of Police Scotland said: “Following an extensive police investigation a man from the Glasgow area has been charged in relation to this incident and he appeared before Edinburgh Sheriff Court today (Monday).”

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John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.