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Police have now launched an investigation into the death of a woman whose body was found in a flat in Madeira Street on Wednesday night.

Forensics officers have been carrying out inquiries at the scene and the death is currently being treated as unexplained.

A police spokesman said: “The body of a woman was discovered within a flat on Madeira Street around 7.50pm on Wednesday, August 10.

“The death is being treated as unexplained pending the results of a post mortem.”

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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.