A police enquiry is underway after a 32-year-old man suffered serious injuries after being attacked by two men in Waterloo Place, near Princes Street, at around 12.40pm this afternoon.
Two masked men are believed to have got out of a car before striking the victim on his head and body leaving a large pool of blood on the street.
The attackers then fled in a white car towards Regent Road.
Police said the victim suffered a “number of serious wounds” and was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Waterloo Place was cordoned off for several hours but has now reopened.
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.
