A police investigation is underway after a teenager suffered serious facial injuries during an attack in Morningside Road which took place just after 6am this morning.Officers are treating the incident as a serious assault and cordoned off a section of the street.

 The 19-year-old victim was taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary following the incident.

A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “Officers are currently following a positive line of inquiry.”

 

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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.