{"id":585991,"date":"2025-11-22T03:44:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/585991\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T03:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:44:21","slug":"midlothian-primary-school-locked-down-following-reports-of-man-with-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/585991\/","title":{"rendered":"Midlothian primary school locked down following reports of man with knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Midlothian primary school was locked down on Friday morning following reports of a man with a knife.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the Eskbank Road area of Dalkeith, near to King\u2019s Park school, at around 10.10am.<\/p>\n<p>A Midlothian council spokesman confirmed that pupils were kept indoors during the school break due to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>However, they were able to go home at lunchtime and also leave as normal at the end of the school day.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests were made following the incident. Investigators are following a positive line of enquiry in efforts to trace the man.<\/p>\n<p>A Police Scotland spokesperson said: \u201cAround 10.10am on Friday, November 21, 2025, we received a report of a man in possession of a knife in the Eskbank Road area of Dalkeith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers are searching the area in effort to trace the man and are following a positive line of enquiry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758059248_2_whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Midlothian primary school was locked down on Friday morning following reports of a man with a knife.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-585991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115591294849438732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}