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Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh Live
National
Kris Gourlay

HISTORICAL FACTS: The edinburgh postcode targeted by firebugs more than anywhere else last year - Caught on Camera

The Edinburgh postcodes in which police officers have received the most call-outs to incidents involving wilful fire raising have been revealed.

Information obtained through a Freedom of Information Act has revealed that throughout the whole of 2021, there were 403 incidents of wilful fire raising within Edinburgh, the Lothians and the Scottish Borders.

Within Edinburgh specifically, the number of incidents reported was 209.

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