look today a big part of the area is still closed off, thick smoke is still coming out of the building, no roof left and no windows.
A large number of people are affected, living in and working nearby.
A true catastrophe.
Subhi Hashwa,
Scotland

This is a great loss for Edinburgh and visitors to the city. I lived in Edinburgh for a year and love the city so much. My heart goes out to residents and the fire fighters who have been affected by this tragedy. Savannah Beattie, Canadacareer that probably can’t exist in today’s MMA. For a Dutch woman in MMA at the start of this century, there weren’t many opportunities at home or across the Atlantic. But there was Japan, which is where Coenen’s career kicked into high gear with the single night ReMix World Cup tournament in December of 2000.

She was a 19-year-old college student in Rotterdam, and then she won three fights in one night to take the ReMix World Cup title and a $100,000 grand prize. That payday, earned in her first year of competition, would prove to be the biggest of her career. But there was something else too.

“That first time I fought in Japan when I was 19, it was like I was dropped into this world,” Coenen said.