An Edinburgh couple had a lucky escape when a large tree crashed onto their house during Storm Kathleen at the weekend. Colin and Kim Herkes were sitting with a friend in a gazebo at their Edinburgh home when a neighbour’s massive tree was uprooted during the storm on Saturday. The trio managed to escape unharmed but an upstairs neighbour was trapped in their flat until a tree surgeon arrived on the scene and cut branches back from the front door. The fire service raced to the incident at the... Read this story