Tam Dean Burn learns about Tai Chi

A 42-year-old man has been arrested after Outlander and River City star Tam Dean Burn was stabbed in a street attack.

The 60-year-old actor had been speaking at an event at the Scottish Poetry Library on Saturday afternoon and was assaulted outside the venue.

He  taken to hospital, but later released.

A Police Scotland spokesman said: “At 4pm on Saturday, officers responded to a report of a 60-year-old man having been assaulted in Crichton Close. “A 42-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident.”

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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.